Note from the editor: Karin McQuillan is a novelist (one novel) who was a PCV in Senegal. (She ETed after a year. ) We published a few blog items about her back in January and February of 2018. This article has just been republished on-line by the American Conservatives.

November 30, 2020 ( LifeSiteNews) - The coronavirus pandemic is part of the "stealth war" that the Chinese Communist Party has been waging against the United States by infiltrating its democratic institutions and undermining its political and social culture, a retired U.S Air Force general and China expert warned.

In modern cities, we're constantly surveilled through CCTV cameras in both public and private spaces, and by companies trying to sell us shit based on everything we do. We are always being watched. But what if a simple T-shirt could make you invisible to commercial AIs trying to spot humans?

Bonsai is an ancient art of horticultural sculpture. The word's translation from Japanese means "tree in a pot." Believed to have originated in China during the Han Dynasty, bonsai was first introduced in Japan some 500 years later by Buddhist...

Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth's stable temperature (around 52 degrees in his region) to grow warm weather produce- citrus, figs, pomegranates - in the snow.

BasicsLithops and other mesembs are a highly desirable group of plants to grow, but the ease of killing them has discouraged many potential growers from enjoying the full spectrum of this group of plants.

Crown Rot in Phalaenopsis Watering Catasetum's Black Rot in spring

project: " El Brancho " (Peter Rockstroh) For my second experimental vivarium in Colombia I wanted to create the illusion of a mossy branch segment covered with miniature native orchids and bromeliads floating in mid-air against a black background.