September 2012
92 posts
“Then, injured people started coming from everywhere. We had to come up with other ways of accommodating people, even if it meant putting beds on the terrace. Sometimes the wounded didn’t arrive during the day because of fighting, because the roads were blocked, or because traveling to the hospital was risky. Sometimes they came at night or at dawn.”
—Surgical specialist Anna Nowak has completed more than 20 missions with MSF. She has just returned from Syria, where she helped to set up a refugee hospital project.
MSF has been working on the ground in Syria for the past two months, trying to provide humanitarian assistance to people affected by the conflict. With the help of a group of Syrian doctors, in six days a team was able to transform an empty house into an emergency hospital where wounded people could be operated on and hospitalized. (via doctorswithoutborders)
MSF has been working on the ground in Syria for the past two months, trying to provide humanitarian assistance to people affected by the conflict. With the help of a group of Syrian doctors, in six days a team was able to transform an empty house into an emergency hospital where wounded people could be operated on and hospitalized. (via doctorswithoutborders)
“تعال عش في قلبي ولا تدفع الايجار
Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.” —Arabic proverb (via egyptianprincess)
Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.” —Arabic proverb (via egyptianprincess)
August 2012
87 posts
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”- Bukowski”
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Leonardo da Vinci was Not the 1st to create human flight →
articles.cnn.com
100s of years before Leonard da Vinci, Abbas Ibn Firnas believed man could fly and laid out the ground work for flight
“And we must always remain humbly aware that we may be ignorant of something better. That is the lesson of science.”
—“The Evolution-Creation Controversy” by Robert Root-Bernstein and Donald L. McEachron (via reneesian)
If chimps go to war and fight each other, how can humans survive communism?
“Love don’t give a damn what other people say, it’s always been that way”
“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”
—E. O. Wilson (via diymblr)
