Today a good friend sent me a most wonderful site that I simply have to share with you. It is called LIFE: A Journey Through Time, and it features the work of Frans Lanting, presenting one of the most beautiful and thought provoking slide shows I’ve ever seen, accompanied by wonderful music that aids the inspirational and educational process. 
Lanting offers a book of his work. Simply enter the site, choose Start the Journey, and enjoy all things offered on the site. Congratulations are in order to Mr. Lanting for offering us a simple, beautiful, awe-inspiring and scientifically informed journey in life through time.
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Writer, editor, photojournalist, and cartoonist, Beverly Spicer is E-Bits Editor for The Digital Journalist, an online magazine for visual journalism at http://digitaljournalist. org. She is a diarist of almost 200 volumes of illustrated journals and author of two books. Her undergraduate degree is in physiological psychology and biology, and she holds a Master of Science in Architecture in interdisciplinary studies, combining architecture, neuroscience, and Middle Eastern studies.
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Awesome! Very inspirational too.
Thanks for the pointer. One great presentation.