What is Space?    A Brief Exposé of our Neglected Stepchild in Physics           By: David Cox  …

    SUICIDE OF A WOMAN February, 1995 – London   Ayad Gharbawi   Killing Your only Haunted eye And those that witnessed How frail You are Yawn O! How vile Man is!   And…

    Death Of A Friend   Ayad Gharbawi   Say to us Hurtful Words Of changes to come Impersonal   Waves A-wash Upon hearts Mortified – O days; Gone? Or are you To become?…

      AN OLD SUICIDE NOTE     Ayad Gharbawi   From my eye That once Used to win And now Getting to be Upset In my own blood That is still So unreal.   So goodnight…

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I'm fascinated by the effort to reconstruct the Neanderthal life - how they ate, where they lived, their physiology, their cognitive workings, their use of symbols. They were more like us than any…

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