Mexico City Has Women Only Transit

From Reuters-Mexico City has started a women-only bus service to protect female passengers from groping and verbal abuse common on the city’s packed public transportation system.
Millions of people cram into subway trains and buses in the Mexican capital, one of the world’s largest cities, and women have long complained of [...]

Global Warming & The Bering Strait

“The distance across the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska’s Seward Peninsula is approximately 55 miles, and for several periods during the Pleistocene Ice Ages the trip could be made entirely on land instead of water.”

TheStateOf . . . Global Warming. If it was once possible to cross from Russia to Alaska on top of [...]

New Movies: "City Of Man" and "A Peoples’ History of the United States"

“Fernando Meirelles’ City of God was one of, if not THE, best movie of 2003. Nominated for 4 Oscars, listed on how God knows how many top 10 lists (pun intended), and voted #18 on IMDb’s top 250 movies of all time.
“City Of Men brings us back to Brazil, with the story of teenagers Acerola [...]