In a hot, dusty, field in Guyana, workers desperately dig to clear water ditches, so that what precious little water there is gets where it is needed. This year’s El Nino is not only disappointing Southern Californians, where I live, but it is causing real damage to South Americans. A few of our Listen2Read audiobooks […]
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To celebrate Earth Day, actor William Shatner has proposed a very good idea. Since there is a severe drought in California, and there is an abundance of water in other areas, why not build a pipeline to bring the water from where it is to where it is needed? Shatner says he will try to raise
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Here’s a thought to keep an environmentalist awake at night: About 90 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and 1,670 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas are likely to be north of the Arctic Circle, close to the North Pole, where Santa lives. Eighty-Four percent of this is expected to require offshore drilling. And if
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Global warming was not on the mind of George Vancouver as he explored the coast of southwest Alaska in 1794. Having sailed from the balmy coast of Maui, Hawaii, to the frozen Northwest, any kind of warming would be welcome. While Vancouver couldn’t imagine global warming, he saw, measured and mapped the cold. He
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Famous naturalist William Beebe had bitter remembrances of World War One: “After creeping through slime-filled holes beneath the shrieking of swift metal, after splashing one’s plane through companionable clouds three miles above the little jagged, hero filled ditches, and dodging other sudden-born clouds of nauseous fumes and blasting heart of steel; after these, one
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Happy Halloween from Listen2Read Audio book publishers In the spirit of Halloween, here is a free download of a scary story by a famous author. The story is called the THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN. It was written early in H.P.Lovecraft’s notable career and published in 1921. It runs about 10 minutes: Here is the Youtube
James Norman Hall, a very adventurous author, passed away 63 years ago this month. Hall, with his writing partner Charles Nordoff, wrote a number of well-received books. The most well known today is “Mutiny on the Bounty”, twice made into successful films. Who can forget Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh? Other works
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In 1856, in British Guyana, there was a major communications gap. A valuable shipment of postage stamps from the mother country, England, had not arrived. There was no way to mail anything to anyone in British Guyana or anywhere else. This was 52 years before William Beebe established his Tropical Research Station in British Guyana,
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