Humor: Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

Video: Life After Death As Experienced By Children

Dr. Melvin Morse shows drawings done by children that depict their near death experience...

Online Night-Owls ‘Risk Mental Illness’

Young people who become sleep deprived by using the internet into the small hours are much more likely to become mentally ill in later life, research shows. Lack of sleep may help explain the puzzling increase in mental illness among young people in recent decades, according to an extensive study. And regularly staying up late to surf the internet and chat on social networking sites could be one reason young people are sleeping less, according to the research...

Quote: Pema Chodron

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” – Pema Chodron

Book: UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record

UFOS: GENERALS, PILOTS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS GO ON THE RECORD By Leslie Kean Published on: 2010-08-10 Product Description An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempts to engage and fire on unusual objects heading right toward his aircraft, but his missile control is locked and disabled. Witnessed from the ground, this dogfight...

News: Arizona Signs Warn Of Drugs & Smuggling

SIGNS IN ARIZONA WARN OF SMUGGLER DANGERS By Jerry Seper and Matthew Cella The Washington Times August 31, 2010 Original Link The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control...

News: Famed Climate Change Skeptic Changes His Mind

FAMED CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTIC CHANGES HIS MIND By Nancy Roberts Care2 September 1, 2010 Original Link [Visit the link above to see supporting links. --DS] Danish political scientist and statistician Bjorn Lomborg, alternately hailed and cursed for claiming that efforts to reduce carbon emissions were not worth the money, now suggests that combatting climate change should be the top global...

Great Idea: Gmail Priority Inbox

For more information about Gmail Priority Inbox, go here: Gmail Priority Inbox Launches: Your E-mail Will Never Be the Same Mashable Gmail Priority Inbox: 5 Tips for Better Productivity Mashable Google Web Page For Gmail Priority...

Loic Le Meur: How To Build Your Own Brand Online

Loic Le Meur is the founder of Seesmic, one of the net’s most innovative, powerful, and multi-faceted social networking tools. You can find out more about Loic Le Meur by visiting his many online hangouts: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and many others (check out his website for a complete...

News: Sign This Pledge: Be More Humane To Hens; Help End Factory Farming

One of the easiest ways you can help farm animals and reduce your risk of Salmonella is simply to avoid eating eggs from hens crammed into cages. With less space than a sheet of paper on which to spend her life, each one of the nearly 280 million caged hens in this country can’t even spread her wings. While more than half a billion eggs have recently been recalled in the U.S. due to Salmonella...

News: Filthy Conditions At Egg Farms Driving Cage-Free Movement

Recent findings of piles of manure, rodents, and other unsanitary conditions on the Iowa farms linked to the massive salmonella-tainted egg recall are “disgusting,” but not surprising to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The conditions on farms owned by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms Inc. mirror those found on four other Iowa egg producing farms during a Humane Society investigation earlier this year. “The findings are shocking and disgusting, but unfortunately they are the same as we’ve documented repeatedly, and as recently as February and March of this year,” Dr. Michael Greger, the HSUS’s director of public health and animal agriculture told ConsumerAffairs.com. “This is an industry-wide problem. These practices are the same as we found in our investigations in Iowa…and in other investigations across the country...

Story: Swimology

A learned scholar set forth on a long and difficult sea journey. Desiring to impress the crew with the depth of his learning, he would stop and question the simple sailors as they went about their duties. “Tell me my good man,” he would ask a sailor, “have you studied philosophy?” The sailor would answer, “Oh no, I’m just a simple sailor. I only know how to sail this ship from one...