Kek Lok Tong Gunung Rapat, 31350 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
Not exactly a spelunking site, the Kek Lok Tong cave temple leads out to a beautiful, lush garden that is fenced in by tall limestone formations.
A thoroughly brutal photo essay by Daniel Berehulak for the New York Times from the Philippines, chronicling President Rodrigo Duterte’s genocidal anti-drug campaign. If you cannot handle photographs showing graphic violence, death and utter despair, you should find something else to look at.
These are very dark days we seem to be living through.
You have, in your body, one of the most incredibly intricate detoxing systems that exists: Your liver regulates glucose, protein, and fat levels, removes ammonia from the body, as well as alcohol and some drugs. The rest of the heavy lifting is done by your kidneys, processing drugs with an intricate system of enzymes, balancing your body’s water levels, salts, excreting waste right into your bladder, and again, excreting toxins. Your toilet paper use is proof enough of how much detoxing your organs are doing.
Because going through a hard life with someone else is better than going through an easy life alone.
We face awesome environmental challenges: climate change, food production, overpopulation, the decimation of other species, epidemic disease, acidification of the oceans. Together, they are a reminder that we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of humanity. We now have the technology to destroy the planet on which we live, but have not yet developed the ability to escape it.