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Second Harvest Foodbank of East Tennessee

What is Second Harvest Food Bank? Second Harvest Food Bank is the East Tennessee region’s largest hunger-relief charity; operating programs in 18 counties. The food bank secures and distributes over 17.5 million pounds of...

A Hunger-Relief Holiday Give Guide

by Brittany Banks, Communication Manager, © Feeding America For many of us, the holidays truly are a special time of year. While we of course associate the season with Rudolf’s red nose, reconnecting with old...

Glider Ride!

Last weekend my wife and I crossed another item off of our collective bucket list… we took a Glider ride through the beautiful mountains of Vermont; which just happened to be in full Fall...

Feeding America – Hunger Action Month

What Is Hunger Action Month™? September is Hunger Action Month, a nationwide campaign mobilizing the public to take action on the issue of hunger. Organized by the Feeding America nationwide network of food banks,...

Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures

Prevalence An estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease in 2014, including approximately 200,000 individuals younger than age 65 who have younger-onset Alzheimer’s. Almost two-thirds of American seniors living with Alzheimer’s are women. Of the...

Feeding America – Go Orange Campaign

Go Orange Campaign Take Action Against Hunger This September and Go Orange September is Hunger Action Month, when the Feeding America nationwide network of food banks unites to urge individuals to take action in their communities. ...

Iridium Flares!

For the last 10 years or so, it has become my daily habit to spend 15-20 minutes in my hot tub right before I go to bed at night. This time is spent relaxing/unwinding...

Comet of the Century?

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently made some truly amazing photographs of Comet ISON, which is still about 386 million miles from the sun and about 394 million miles from Earth.  It is projected to...

Your Brain by the Numbers

Check out the infographic from Scientific American containing some fascinating statistics concerning the human brain at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-in-pictures-your-brain-by-the-numbers To me, perhaps the most interesting of these statistics is the number of calculations per second that...