News of Trump cancelling the Voice of America is disturbing. VOA once broadcast the best in American music and culture to the world and news second to BBC. I first heard it in 1967 on my grandparent’s console AM/SW radio-phonograph. VOA sent this “QSL Card” and others to me over the years.

The newer, wider locks on the Panama Canal were built after 1999 and were not built by the United States. Here we see a Neo-Panamax size ship in the Cocoli Locks, opened in 2016.

Marco Rubio is visiting Panama this weekend. I hope he learns about the operation of today’s Panama Canal. Let’s take a look at it.

Let’s take a look at Colombia, in the news today.

The ability to extract plain text out of iPhone photos is quite marvellous.

A few more photos of Greenland.

For those who have never been to Greenland, this is a bit of what it looks like. The people of Greenland want to keep it.