(TED.com) Mycologist Paul Stamets, who studies mycelium, lists six ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.
A Plant's-eye View What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye view. (His book The Omnivore’s Dilemma explains how our food not only affects our health but has far-reaching political, economic, and environmental…) More>>
Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat [LINK]
In this funny and fiery talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now
too much meat
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too much fast food
too little home cooking
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AHMEDABAD, India (Dec. 28, 2009) - The way to go is green, and these kids are learning it young. Children from a Laos school are turning garbage into money. And another group from Thailand learns that planting trees as part of its curriculum.
Participating in 17th National Children's Science Congress, three students representing School for Gifted Students and Preparatory Studies, Laos is saving the environment by recycling most garbage collected on campus, says Savina Romyen.
They are part of the 10-member delegation from Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. "We have four dustbins in distinct colours to segregate collected waste. These items are either recycled, re-used and used for creating manure," adds Romyen. Another student, Fongher Herjalearn says, "In a month time, we collected more than 5 kg of plastic, which earned us 2,000 Lao kip."
Another four delegations from Thailand are all for planting trees. Pasu Loung Alarm, Bodin Luangtrirat, and Apiradee Chonwatthanakin presented a model of tree plantations embedded in their school curriculum. "Every year 3,000 students are admitted to our school, and each of them has to plant a tree on campus and take care of them throughout their study period," says Apiradee.
She adds that the model has been so successful that now students are encouraged to plant trees in their localities. Source
Siddhartha found nirvana one day when he decided not to rise from under the Bodhi tree until he found the answer to the world's suffering. Enlightenment dawned when know-ledge and vision of the Four Noble Truths arose.
Siddhartha became the Buddha, the "Awakened One." He realized that the ultimate Dharma (liberating wisdom) was beyond grasping and aversion, transcended time and space, life and death, and resulted in emancipation from the round of rebirth (samsara).
This is nirvana, the supreme and ultimate reality. The Buddha went on to teach the Noble Eightfold Path to awakening and enlightenment to countless hearers, both devas and humans, on Earth and beyond.
American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi explains nirvana (LINK)
Permaculture with Rico Zook a 25 minute film by Bruce Weaver
(Druwin) What images do we hold in mind for the future of humankind and the planet? At present we are bombarded with images of global climate change, worldwide food and water shortages, and catastrophic wars. "Heaven on Earth" is a video travelogue documenting the work of permaculturistRico Zook. Travel with Rico to the northernmost part of India in the shadow of the towering Himalayas. Glimpse the future through Rico's eyes. And learn what permaculture is and what it has to offer humanity and the planet. Is it possible to find heaven on Earth here and now?
The flow of subtle energy in our bodies We are not just physical bodies— remarkable though that is—for around us is a pulsating electromagnetic energy field that is described either as a rainbow-like aura or as a luminous light body. This "subtle-energy" field interacts with our physical body by flowing through concentrated spirals of energy. In yoga practice these spiralling energy centers are known as chakras, a Sanskrit word meaning "wheels of light."
There are seven main chakras (plus a number of smaller ones) that interact with the body's ductless endocrine glands and lymphatic system by feeding in good energy and disposing of unwanted energy. It is vitally important for our general health and the prevention of illness or "disease" that we nourish our chakras in the correct way.
How this book works This book begins by introducing you to the chakras and the subtle bio-energies in and around our bodies, usually referred to as the "layers" of the aura (Part 1). It continues with in-depth information about each of the seven main chakras, their correspondences in the physical body and how you can use breathing and visualization exercises to balance your life-force energy (Parts 2-8). The origins of chakras in the Indian tradition are explored and linked to the present-day practice of yoga.
Chakras are fundamental to an understanding of holistic healing, and these seven sections of the book offer easy-to-use instructions for utilizing crystals, color, sound, aromatherapy and a number of other effective self-heal methods, giving a broad-based understanding for beginners, healers and practitioners alike.
The later sections of the book explore newly discovered chakras: the Earth Star, Hara/Navel and Causal Chakras, the Soul Star and Stellar Gateway, and the Sun, Moon, and cosmic chakras (Part 9). The chakras as a whole are placed within the context of other traditions, such as Taoism, the Kabbalah, Sufism, Inca and Mayan teachings and shamanism, and the Earth and Planetary chakras are introduced (Part 10). Culminating with a section on chakras and healing, the book explains how to give healing to recipients (Part 11).
(Jonny616) This is a simple video I made to show the actual origins of many of the key beliefs in Christian mythology since most people seem unaware of it. It is ironic that a religion fundamentally opposed to Paganism (all pre-Christian beliefs prevalent in the Western world) in fact derives most of its key beliefs from Mithraism. Here are just a few.
If you like the information then I'm glad. If you're offended by it then I'm delighted. People may disagree with the content, but history and much more learned (read boring) presentations exist to prove it. The Bible is not reliable historical evidence since it simply based on ancient histories; it is not those histories.
UK viewers may be familiar with Stephen Fry's BBC show "QI." The Christmas special attests to all the points made in the video and points out even more similarities between the two. This video is not based QI. But I recently came across it and thought people in the UK (who know the reputation of Stephen Fry) would perhaps enjoy it:
Compiled by Dharmachari (Wisdom Quarterly/Wikipedia) BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY Celestial Asuras ("Titans") falling or descending from space
One may choose to see these things as unreal, only mythological. Nevertheless, it is important to understand our histories-mythologies because they are fueling very real conflicts in the world today -- American hegemony in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran (reminiscent of the Christian crusades), irrepressible Middle East tensions, deadly Indian border disputes, and so on. Where other traditions may only give lip service to the idea, Buddhism is in fact about peace.
December 27th marks the Muslim holidayAshura, a day of peace to commemorate a great injustice. In Buddhist and Indian lore, the Asuras were a type of fallen deva, expelled from a relatively low celestial world (Tavatimsa, "the World of the Thirty Three") by Sakka. (Interestingly, suggesting that Asuras could not have been too different, Sakka is said to have married an Asuran princess). Whereas devas (ETs called deities) from the three space spheres immediately above the Earth plane had established contact with various human civilizations -- bringing literacy, technology, advanced masonry, as well as laws -- the Asuras were latecomers.
They are known as Titans, an angry, warlike alien race constantly battling with devas. In establishing contact in the vicinity of old Sumeria, their revelations led to the founding of Zoroastrianism. This religion holds that the supreme "God" is Ahura Mazda (Ahura = Asura). Since Sakka is a Buddhist (not only a constant companion of the Buddha but also a stream-winner, the first stage of enlightenment), it is sensible that his arch enemies would destroy the Dharma from the Near East to India.
What were once thriving centers of Buddhism and the frontiers of the Indian empire, the -- Bactria, Afghanistan/Pakistan (Gandhara) extending into Baluchestan (Persia/Iran/Iraq) or well into the Middle East. By the Buddha's time there were 16 great "countries" (Maha Janapadas), but there had been countless dominions (or "footholds of a tribe") before that.
The word ashura simply means "tenth" in Arabic. So the name of this remembrance day, literally translated, means "the tenth day" of Muharram. The day is indeed the tenth day of the month, although some Islamic scholars offer up different etymologies. In his book Ghuniyatut Talibin, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani writes that the Islamic scholars have a difference of opinion as to why this day is known as Ashura. Some scholars suggest that this day is the tenth most important day that God has blessed Muslims with.
Asuras (in Hinduism): The term Asura is linguistically related to the Ahuras of Zoroastrianism (an ancient religion in Persia/Iran). But in that religion it has a different meaning. For one, the term applies to a very specific set of divinities, only three in number (Ahura Mazda, Mithra, and Apam Napat). For another, there is no direct opposition between the Ahuras and the Daevas: It is said that the fundamental opposition in Zoroastrianism is not between groups of divinities [extraterrestrials], but between Asha "Truth" and Druj "Lie/Falsehood."
This Wikipedia tidbit might make sense if linguistics were the only measure. Theology shows a different side to the argument. It is evident from both Buddhist and Hindu sources that the Asuras are the nemeses of the devas (at least of the Tavatimsa realm). Since Sakka, king of the 33 Tavatimsa devas, is also the "king of kings," that is, chief of the Four Great Kings (catu maharajika devas), there is considerable animosity between Asuras and devas. Because Yakkhas (ogres or demons of another sort) and Nagas (powerful Reptilian rulers) also inhabit the base of Mt. Sumeru, the terrestrial plane, one imagines Asuras at odds with various groups.
The opposition between the Ahuras and Daevas is an expression of that opposition. The Ahuras, like all the other Yazatas or Arha [Arhatas, those regarded as worthy of honor] are defenders of Asha. The Daevas, on the other hand, are in the earliest texts divinities [estraterrestrials] who are to be rejected because they are misled by "the Lie" (see Daeva for details). This is a classic portrayal of the conflict between "principalities," as understood in JudeoChristian terms. (Indeed, most modern Christian dogma is derived from pre-Christian sources, namely, Mithraism and Zoroastrianism, themselves taken from older Mesopotamian and Sumerian sources, including the key elements of Jesus' story even if only historians know it).
Buddhist thangka section depicting Asuras and devas in a war in heaven
Aššur (also Ashur, Assur; written A-šur, also Aš-šùr,ܐܫܘܪ in Neo-Assyrian often shortened to Aš) was the head of the Assyrian pantheon. [Interestingly, Surya is the Sun God, a visitor from space claiming to hail from the sky or Sun, in Indian and Buddhist lore. Might Assurya derive from anti-Surya?]. His origins are unknown, but he is one of the Mesopotamian city gods, namely of the city Assur (pronounced Ashur), once the capital of the Old Assyrian kingdom. It might therefore be that he was a personification of the city itself or be a city named in his honor. From about 1300 BC priests attempted to replace Marduk with Ashur in Enuma Elish.
We propose that whatever temporal meaning has been ascribed to the day of Ashura, it is actually centered on the Titans (Asuras) being worshipped as arch angels. They have come to be regarded as "demons" from the Indian point of view (whereas the Middle East may regard devas as "devils"). The message they brought, indeed, does not differ radically from that of angels (Tavatimsa devas), except that it is the other side of the story: Before being "cast out" of heavenly Tavatimsa, Asuras were angels. Unlike Christian teachings, they were not tossed into perdition but onto Earth (the base of Mt. Sumeru). This might make them the Annunaki of the Sumerians, upon which advanced Middle Eastern cultures were predicated.
Buddhist cosmology is, of course, only regarded as mythological nowadays. Demons are a silly superstition, and the Annunaki is pure myth and science fiction. But doubtless these "mythologies" were based on something. The Buddha in countless sutras refers to these superordinate planes, their inhabitants, and their visits to Earth. The Buddha specified no fewer than 31 planes (categories) of existence. Most of these are deva (light being) and brahma (divinity) spheres.
But there are also beings who are less than devas in rank yet live in conditions superior to humans. The order of being starts at immaterial devas, brahmas, fine-material devas, sensuous sphere devas, Four Great Kings devas, gandhabbas, garudas, suparnas, kinnaras, kumbandhas, nagas, bhumi-devas (earthbound elementals), then Asuras, then humans.
Egyptian hieroglyphs similarly record contact with alien visitors from space ("heaven").
COUNTER ARGUMENT
The supposition that a dichotomy between Ahuras/Asuras and Daevas/Devas already existed in Indo-Iranian times is not supportable from either the Indian or Iranian perspectives. Not only is such a dichotomy not evident in the earliest texts of either culture, neither the Rig Veda's Asuras nor the Gathas' Daevas are demons. The demonization of the Asuras in India and the demonization of the Daevas in Iran both took place "so late that the associated terms cannot be considered a feature of Indo-Iranian religious dialectology."
The idea of a prehistorical opposition between the Asuras/Devas, originally presented in the 19th century but popularized in the mid-20th century, had for some time already been largely rejected by Avesta scholars when a landmark publication (Hale, 1986) attracted considerable attention among Vedic scholars. Hale discussed, "as no one before him" (so Insler's review), the attestations of asura and its derivatives in chronological order of the Vedic texts, leading to new insights into how the Asuras came to be the demons that they are today and why the venerated Varuna, Mithra, Rudra, Agni, Aryaman, Pusan, and Parjanya are all Asuras without being demonic. Although Hale's work has raised further questions — such as how the later poets could have overlooked that the Rig Veda's Asuras are all exalted gods — the theory of a prehistoric opposition is today conclusively rejected.
Following Hale's discoveries, Thieme's earlier proposal of a single Indo-Iranian Asura began to gain widespread support. In general (particulars may vary), the idea runs as follows: Indo-Iranian Asura developed into Varuna in India and into Ahura Mazda in Iran. Those divinities closest related to that "Asura [who] rules over the [g]ods" (AV 1.10.1, cf. RV II.27.10) inherit the epithet, for instance, Rudra as Devam Asuram (V 42.11).
Iranian turmoil, of course, has little to do with traditional Middle Eastern celebrations and the true meaning of Ashura. The holiday coincides with 2009 political conflicts. But it is more than coincidental that the warlike Titans (Asuras) so influenced the cultures that commemorate it that they expelled all traces of Buddhism and established rule by force. Buddhists remain pacifists.
Asia Remembers Deadly 2004 Tsunami (VOA) The December 26, 2004 Tsunami destroyed entire coastal communities, decimated families, and crashed over tourist-filled beaches, sweeping away everyone... Related articles»
Monks, tourists, villagers mark Asian Tsunami PHUKET, Thailand – Buddhist monks in orange robes chanted on a Thai beach, an Indonesian mother mourned her children at a mass grave, and a man scattered flowers in now-placid waters Saturday to commemorate the 230,000 killed five years ago when a tsunami ripped across Asia.
Tsunami Anniversary in Sri Lanka (Reuters) They were the iconic images of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami from Sri Lanka -- the twisted hulks of eight carriages and a locomotive swept aside and tossed around like matchboxes by the killer waves. The train was packed with passengers and others who had sought refuge in them when the first wave hit Sri Lanka's southern shore. When the larger and deadlier swell struck them on the tracks, villagers estimate that as many as 1500 died inside. More>>
Annual Kwanzaa Founder's Message: As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. Given the profound significance Kwanzaa has for African Americans and, indeed, the world African community, it is imperative that an authoritative source and site be made available to give an accurate and expansive account of its origins, concepts, values, symbols, and practice. More>>
Wisdom Quarterly Are there really Black Buddhists? Of course! In fact, the Buddha's chief male disciple (who was foremost in spiritual mastery) was black. He was noted for being extremely dark-skinned, not African but a brahmin named MahaMoggallana. He was a beloved and enlightened monk who help establish the Dharma in India. Then as now Buddhism is open to everyone regardless of race or ethnicity or "caste" (socioeconomic status). Today, BhanteBuddharakkhita (pictured) is an excellent example of a Buddhist monk spreading the Dharma in Africa.
The Uganda Buddhist Centre in Kampala is a major initiative to secure a firm and lasting spiritual home for original Buddhist teachings and practice on African soil.
Ven. Buddharakkhita first encountered Buddhism in 1990, when he met Thai monks in India. He began practicing meditation in 1993. After living in Asia for seven years, he decided to continue his Dharma practice in the U.S.A., first in San Jose, California in the Burmese tradition then in West Virginia (Bhavana Society). He is the author of Planting Dhamma Seeds: The Emergence of Buddhism on African Soil and is founder of the Uganda Buddhist Centre.
(Go278) Ven. Buddharakkhita, who was born in Uganda, East Africa, learned from various masters in India, Burma, and the US and was ordained by the late Burmese monk Sayadaw U Silananda in 2002. In 2005, he founded the Uganda Buddhist Center, the first Buddhist Center in Uganda.
Buddhism in Africa has grown in major African cities since the 1970s. There has been a proliferation of distinct traditions: Theravada, Mahayana, Zen, Nichiren, and Tibetan. The FoGuangShan Buddhist order has erected Nan Hua Temple, the largest Buddhist temple and monastery in Africa, in the town of Bronkhorstspruit near Pretoria.
Another notable Buddhist center in the country is the Buddhist Retreat Centre in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal. The Nichiren Buddhist lay group SokaGakkai International also has a community center in Parkwood, Johannesburg. A community of lay and ordained Buddhist practitioners live in the beautiful suburb of Blairgowrie/Rand-burg/Johannesburg at the Vajrapani Buddhist Centre and various other venues in Gauteng.
Midway through a promising career as a world-renonwed Buddhist teacher, British born Ajahn Brahm, took it upon himself to ordain women in the Theravada tradition -- a first for a senior monk in Thailand's forest tradition. The fallout continues in spite of the fact that there are now fully ordained Buddhist nuns in various Theravadin countries:
BANGKOK (Monsters&Critics) - Thailand's Sangha Supreme Council, which governs the country's Buddhist monkhood, has severed all ties with an Australian monastery for ordaining two Buddhist nuns, media reports said Tuesday. "The expulsion took effect Monday after the council had ruled to cancel the monastery's status as a branch of Wat Nongpapong in Ubon Ratchathani province," The Nation online news site reported. More>>
It's never too late to change your mind spiritually -- or to change it back again -- as this story from India illustrates:
SURAT CITY - In its offensive against conversion of tribals to Christianity, the Maharashtra-based Shree Sampraday sect claimed to have reconverted 1,747 people back to Hinduism in Surat on Monday. A shadow has, however, been cast on the event with Surat district magistrate taking note of the organizers’ failure to seek permission for reconversion as stipulated in the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003. The camp to reconvert tribals, who had embraced Christianity was held in the city for the first time and nearly 5,000 people from Maharashtra and Gujarat participated in the ceremony. More>>
Need to portray Hinduism’s human face CHENNAI - Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa here on Thursday refuted perceptions that Hindu spiritual organizations lacked social consciousness and that they lacked commitment to social service. He said networking and showcasing their social activities was the best way to demolish such myths. “This myth (about Hinduism) needs to be demolished in order to gain the rightful place for these organizations in the global order of things,” he said at a function to inaugurate the first ever “Hindu Spiritual and Services Fair-2009,” by over 100 Hindu spiritual organizations across India. More>>
Former Security Advisor predicts two wars for India "In the next four years Pakistan and China may attack us." The former Indian National Security Advisor, Brajesh Mishra, has predicted that in next four years, India may have to defend itself from Pakistan and China at the same time. Mishra said that China's present threat to India is more dangerous than in 1962, when the countries clashed in a war, and that Indian politicians were to blame for India's weak defense position. He pointed out at a book-release function in New Delhi that there has been a change in China's stand regarding Kashmir, which could lead to a bigger threat. More>>
But what midlife crisis would be complete without an impulse for sexual indiscretion or outright misconduct? Divorce or infidelity is usually enough. Yet, from time to time people, even monks, get in much more trouble.
One year jail term for pedophile Briton in Cambodia PHNOM PENH (AFP) — A Cambodian court on Friday sentenced a British man to one year in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl. Judge Ke Sakhan of Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicted 51-year-old Gareth Ashley Corbett, arrested in the popular seaside town of Sihanoukville in July, of committing indecent acts. He handed Corbett the one-year jail term and ordered him to pay a 1,000-dollar fine. More>>
Mo. man says monk rape charge retaliation ST. LOUIS (UPI) -- A Missouri man facing an extortion charge is sticking by his allegations that a Roman Catholic monk exposed himself to him. Steven Gillispie, 45, told the St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch that he made up a rape allegation only after the monk's order failed to pay him off over what Gillispie said was a flashing incident that actually took place. More>>
Then there's the meaning of life and the search for it. It's about giving of yourself, saving the world, doing for others, communing with nature... All that is accomplished by becoming an activist participating in a great movement like saving the whales and the ocean.
Japanese whalers clash with militant activists CANBERRA, Australia – Japanese whalers and militant conser-vationists have clashed in the Antarctic Ocean over two days, with weapons including water cannon, blinding lasers and bottles of rancid acid, both sides said Wednesday. (Slideshow: Whaling Controversy) Each accused the other of coming dangerously close during the clashes. Neither reported any injuries or ship damage. More>>
Pondering Nature, God, and Existence (NYT) Mr. Douthat tells readers that in the absence of an “escape upward” from heartless Nature into the arms of a God willing to “take on flesh and come among us,” human existence is a tragedy. He further says that we are “beasts with self-consciousness” who “stand half inside the natural world and half outside it.” More>>
Fluffy mystery at edge of Solar System solved (SPACE.com) Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material that shouldn't be there, astronomers say. [Is it Xirbiru?] And now the decades-old Voyager spacecraft have helped solved the mystery. The cloud is called the "Local Fluff." It's about 30 light-years wide and holds a wispy mix of hydrogen and helium atoms, according to a NASA statement released today. Stars that exploded nearby, about 10 million years ago, should have crushed the Fluff or blown it away. So what's holding the Fluff in place? "Using data from Voyager, we have discovered... More>>
Christian soldiers, marching as to war in the pitched battle for the meaning of Christmas, worry that Santa is a tool of the vast Satanic conspiracy. To be sure, the similarity of their names, identical but for one transposed letter, is provocative.... Could the Religious Wrong be right, just this once? Is Santa the Deceiver’s way of hijacking the Christ child’s birthday? Kriss Kringle is a corruption of the German dialectal Christkindl, “little Christ child.” Were Satan and Santa separated at birth? More>>
(WSJ) Sensing at age 44 that she was quickly approaching "the age of dis-satisfaction," Katie Smith Milway declared to a friend, "I want to have a positive midlife crisis." She went on to do exactly that. On advice from her friend, publisher Valerie Hussey, Ms. Milway revived her old passion for public service, swapped her corporate consulting job for a post advising nonprofits, and wrote a book for children on helping people in developing lands. The outcome, says the Wellesley, Mass., mother of three, has been "uplifting, and gives me more time for family and community-based work." More>>
(Fiftyisthenew.com) Nowadays, physicians whip out the prescription pad when women my age cross their thresholds. Hot flashes? Prozac! Empty-nest blues? Prozac! Husband suffering midlife crisis? Prozac. (Why the wife must medicate herself when Goofus makes a damned fool out of himself is beyond me, but h*ll, if being stoned [and poisoned and neutralized by a flouride derivative] helps women avoid committing manslaughter, I’m all for it!) My first brush with Prozac came in 1989, after I had been unceremoniously dumped... More>>
(BuddhistSocietyWA) Ajahn Brahm talks about different sects of Buddhism, how the division came to be, and what it means. Ultimately, Buddhism is all the same cake topped by various icings.
Why was Ajahn Brahm expelled? Go Beyond Words, the Wisdom Publications' blog, currently features “History in the Making,” a guest post by editor David Kittelstrom regarding (in part) the expulsion of bhikkhu Ajahn Brahmavamso (a.k.a., Ajahn Brahm) from the Wat Pa Phong Sangha. Here are some excerpts:
The late forest monk and meditation master Luang Por Chah was a true visionary. While his peers did not bother with training Western monks, he did it seriously at his Wat Pah Pong forest monastery. This has now led to nuns being ordained. More>>
The first Theravada bhikkhuni (nun) ordination in Australia, and the first in the Thai Forest Tradition anywhere in the world, was performed in Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia on October 22nd, 2009. Four nuns from the nearby Dhammasara Nuns Monastery took ordination: Vayama, Nirodha, Seri, and Hassapañña. The second half of the ordination ceremony was performed by Wisdom author Ajahn Brahm — the abbot of Bodhinyana — along with other monks from the monastery. More>>
(Examiner.com/Disclose.TV) The fol-lowing video may be space junk or the International Space Station (ISS). But we have video footage of space junk and the ISS which looks nothing like this footage. We presented footage months ago of an object that moved far more rapidly than shown here, and some claimed that was also the ISS. It seems skeptics continue to argue against increasing activity leading up to governmental disclosure regarding extraterrestrial interaction with humans. We are being prepared like it or not. More>>
Study makes provocative list HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Canadian Press) — A Canadian study has been named one of the most provocative sex science stories of 2009 by the science website LiveScience.com. The study, led by psychology professor Maryann Fisher at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, looked into how men and women would feel if they cheated on their partner. The research concluded that men feel guiltier following sexual infidelity, while women feel guiltier after an emotional transgression. Fisher and her team had hypothesized the opposite. More>>
DES MOINES, Iowa - An ad campaign publicizing atheist views is again appearing on the sides of Des Moines buses, letting nonbelievers know they are not alone during the holiday season. Ads by the group Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers sparked a free-speech debate in Des Moines last summer and prompted changes in advertising policy at the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority. The latest ads, which appeared on Monday, read "Being good for goodness sake" against a blue background with snowflakes. More>>
Wilson Hurley has put up a Christmas tree in his house in front of an image of Buddha.
(VOA News) It has long been true that Christmas is not just for Christians any more. Many people, of many different religious persuasions or of no persuasion at all, celebrate the day and the season. Followers of Buddhism in the Washington area are among the groups celebrating the tradition. More>>
(AP) A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter's Bas-ilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass on Thursday. Two Americans, Marybeth Burns and Steve Burns, captured the moment on video.
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