Live Life To The Full By: Dr. Janeth Hall | -
"Life's for living to the full!" I was listening to Florence Houghton (then aged 83) who had been talking at me for over an hour... and I was hanging off every word. She had recently made a tandem parachute jump (the oldest person to do so in the southern hemisphere) and was looking forward to her next adventure.
However she was a bit peeved at the backlash she received as a result of a special television segment on her made by Sixty Minutes. They'd filmed her doing her ordi ... Tags:elderly, spirit, love, life, happy
Advice For When Travel Gets Hot And Sticky By: Ryan Murdock | - Enormous trees with wide buttressed roots propped up the canopy: giants draped with vines, mosses and epiphytes which hung in tangled green confusion. All the way down to the impenetrable jungle floor, life grew upon life in one symbiotic Gordian Knot.
The forest floor absorbed our footfalls: mine and two Embera hunters from a tiny village deep in Panama's Darién Gap. The jungle crouched around us in rain-deadened silence. We slipped through it like wraiths, ghosting around b ... Tags:jungle, travel, darien, panama, embera, murdock, road wisdom, tips, travel tips
The Bite Of Camel Spiders Represents No Great Threat To Your Health By: Muna Wanjiru | - To some, camel spiders seem the boogie men of the Middle East, but from a scientific point of view, there is absolutely no justification for the myths and stories that consider this species a real monster and a threat to humans. The exaggerations related to camel spiders are explained by their large size, but what most people don't know is that they are not actually spiders, but a different type of arachnids more like the scorpions actually. They have no venom, and they simply kill their prey by ... Tags:Camel Spiders
What Makes A Camel Spider So Scary At A First Glance? By: Muna Wanjiru | - Lots of scary stories and myths about the camel spider often give people the creeps: the word goes that this species can eat out flesh portions after injecting a form of anesthetic in the victim's body, not to mention that its dimensions are truly impressive. The truth is somewhere in between: the camel spider lives in the Middle East countries, and it has become known in the United States and the rest of world after US troops have come across some specimens. The camel spider is even falsely cal ... Tags:Camel Spider
Peculiar Pets By: Jonathon Hardcastle | - People have found shelter and comfort in pets since the beginning of time. Animals have been man's best friend, protector and a source of great pleasure. Dogs, cats, parrots, birds, rabbits and horses are the most commonly kept pets. In societies people keep undisruptive animals. Hardly any house is left that does not have a pet! Pets are considered no less than family members, and hence are given the same shelter, love, food as any of their family is liable to receive. Human nature possesses an ... Tags:Pets, dogs, monkeys
