The start of the New Year means the start of a new semester. The past days, I bumped into a number of new international students who moved aimlessly around the residential hall and the GIS department ...
So will you ever leave messages or videos on your blog or website before you die? Will you let people know your plan days before you commit a senseless act of violence? In a recent tragic incident, a ...
Franzine Cole Salas is my niece. We call her Zee. Everyone in the family knows Zee could sing when we saw her tapping the table while watching a variety show on TV. That was when she was still 2. She ...
Wageningen University is one of the best agricultural universities in the world, and for the 11th consecutive year, it has been ranked as the best university in The Netherlands. And I was lucky enough...
I am watching right now an episode on the Travel Channel entitled “Dining with Death: Plants and Nuts.” It features poisonous plants and nuts being consumed in countries like Japan, Papua ...
Have you ever thought how many web domains there are in the world? According to the recent report from VeriSign, the third quarter of 2010 closed with a base of more than 201.8 million domain name reg...
The year 2010 was not happy all the time. But that should not be the reason not to hope for happiness in 2011. I would like to borrow the words of Edith Lovejoy Pierce, “We will open the book. I...
The Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville Illinois annually holds a month-long or so event called “Way of Lights.” It is when the Shrine sparkles with Christmas display that focuse...