Pesticides linked to cancer are in many foods

Glyphosate has been used as an herbicide since the 1970s in everything from corn to honey, granola, wheat crackers and oatmeal. It is found in Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/30/fda-weedkiller-glyphosate-in-food-internal-emails

American Goldfinch

Several American goldfinches on my new feeder today - a Wild Delight finch sock feeder with Nyjer seed. It attracts American goldfinches, purple finches, house finches, chickadees, and more. www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/american-goldfinch

Photo: Marge Ishmael

Two posters

Two posters that sum up our current political predicament:

So true

Poster by "Honoring Our Ancestors"

Earth Day poster

Happy Earth Day!

19th Anniversary - Columbine high school shooting

Amazing to think that it's 19 years since the Columbine high school shooting and how little has been done about gun violence and school shootings.  #ENOUGH https://www.womensmarch.com/enough/

PBS NewsHour: Sustainable farming in India

Interesting piece on last night's PBS NewsHour:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/in-india-this-group-helps-turn-wasteland-into-greener-pastures

Earth Day 2018 - April 22nd

Earth Day 2018 - Sunday April 22nd.   This year’s theme is Ending Plastic Pollution.

SNL: Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller

"If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bulletproof" - Ricky Gervais

Severe slow-down of the Gulf Stream system

Are we at a tipping point....a century ahead of schedule?
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gulf-stream-ice-age-collapse-climate-change-amoc-global-warming-a8301511.html 

Apple "Homework" ad

Apple do make great ads.  In their latest ad, Mark Fenske reads Jack Prelutsky's classic poem “Homework!”

N.W. Indiana Sunset

Photo: Marge Ishmael

50th Anniversary - MLK Assassination

This week was the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. The American clergyman and civil rights leader was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4 1968. https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/martin-luther-king-jr-like-abraham-lincoln/

Maria Callas singing O Mio Babbino Caro by Puccini.