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"Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped? ....... Every year the world uses up to 50 billion metric tons of sand, according to a United Nations Environment Program report. The only natural resource more widely consumed is water. "  More at Scientific American ➜

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What stream, wanders down,
a hillside, green?
What is wrong,
with a fernlike dream?

I don't know, here in my darkness
I may now cry,
for a love,
gone bye.

There isn't a queue,
for a broken heart,
except to realize,
I've done my part.

All the love, I see,
in your eyes,
tells me, I need,
your sweet sighs

by my side and
my heart sings,
with all the warmth,
a love brings.

What chance is
there to be,
when it's your love,
I hope I see.

I know not of tomorrow,
for its beyond my grasp,
like trying to lock up something,
which does not have a hasp.

What are you thinking,
about your God above?
Don't be too sad, for you,
may be falling in Love.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

A bright comet will be visible during next month's total solar eclipse. This very unusual coincidence occurs because Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks's return to the inner Solar System places it by chance only 25 degrees away from the Sun during Earth's April 8 total solar eclipse. Currently the comet is just on the edge of visibility to the unaided eye, best visible with binoculars in the early evening sky toward the constellation of the Fish (Pisces). Comet Pons-Brooks, though, is putting on quite a show for deep camera images even now. The featured image is a composite of three very specific colors, showing the comet's ever-changing ion tail in light blue, its outer coma in green, and highlights some red-glowing gas around the coma in a spiral. The spiral is thought to be caused by gas being expelled by the slowly rotating nucleus of the giant iceberg comet. Although it is always difficult to predict the future brightness of comets, Comet Pons-Brook has been particularly prone to outbursts, making it even more difficult to predict how bright it will actually be as the Moon moves in front of the Sun on April 8. Total Eclipse Info: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse from NASA

Photo by Jan Erik Vallestad

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. More