Topic: Culture & Society

In "The Pursuit of Peace," a channelled President Kennedy instructs the nation and the whole planet on how to change for the betterment of mankind. He gives a glimpses of the future and a bright, shining world that is ours, if only we can survive the current tribulations. And, the only way to survive is through the pursuit of peace.

Through the process of automatic writing, Raymond Starmann has transmitted President Kennedy's important messages into a ground-breaking new book, The Pursuit of Peace.

Whatever the purpose of an inscription, when writing appeared on ancient Greek pottery, it became performance art.

A "communication explosion" in the early days of the Greek alphabet brought both writing and figure scenes onto pottery in the eighth century B.C.E. Whatever the purpose of an inscription, when writing appeared on ancient Greek pottery, it became performance art.

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Alexandra Pappas, assistant professor, classics,University of Arkansas

In this month's edition of "Mayo Clinic Proceedings, three members of the medical profession discuss whether a doctor whould participate in state sanctioned capital punishment.

Should doctors be involved in the state-ordered administration of capital punishment? In the September issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, three anesthesiologists and a medical ethicist take an in-depth look at this question in a commentary and two editorials.

In 1966 The Byrds sang, "So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star." At the time, it sounded good. Reading this, however, gave us cause to wonder.

Rock and pop stars are more than twice as likely as the rest of the population to die an early death, and within a few years of becoming famous, reveals research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

It is important to elect a Presidential candidate for 2008, that has a healthcare plan that includes affordable health insurance for all Americans; lower costs of healthcare; a preventive health initiative; and the prohibition of insurance companies from redlining patients with existing health problems.

Following a recent screening of Michael Moore's documentary film Sicko in New York City, Dr. Mwata O. Dyson, CEO and founder of Paradise Anesthesia in Scottsdale, Arizona, comments publicly on the film and its relevance to the 2008 Presidential election.

Evidently, researchers have found a way for you to become Spiderman - or at least act lile him. Our question is: Do you really want to?

IOP Publishing has announced the online publication of “Towards a Spiderman suit: large invisible cables and self-cleaning releasable superadhesive materials” in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. The article states that physicists have found the formula for a Spiderman suit that will allow humans to stick to surfaces using the natural form of adhesion used by spiders and geckos.

A study about predicting the outcome of actual conflicts found that the forecasts of experts who use their unaided judgment are little better than those of novices, according to a new study in a publication of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

A study about predicting the outcome of actual conflicts found that the forecasts of experts who use their unaided judgment are little better than those of novices, according to a new study in a publication of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Common fertilizer was used by Timothy McVeigh to build the bomb that killed 167 in Oklahoma. Darrell Taulbee, funded by the University of Kentucky and the Department of Homeland Security, is working to make fertilizers blast proof.

Down in the green, rolling hills and farmlands around Lexington, Kentucky, Darrell Taulbee can be found mixing up a batch of his homegrown fertilizer. But he’s not looking to grow a better Big Boy or distill a smoother bourbon, he tells us. Funded by the University of Kentucky and the Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), Taulbee sets his sights on something far more sinister.

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Blast results from coated (top) and uncoated ammonium
nitrate fertilizer-packed steel canisters. In fact, most of
the blast seen in top photo is from the C4 plastic explosive
used to initiate the AN explosion--not from the AN itself.

Two years after Hurricane Katrina, as the struggle to collect promised aid, return home, rebuild and recover looms perilously close to failure, a story being told by some 600 New Orleans evacuees may not have had a voice without Taproot Productions' documentary "Desert Bayou."

On the second anniversary of the hurricane that resulted in the worst U.S. natural disaster ever ..."slow, insufficient and misguided federal policy is keeping tens of thousands of displaced American families from realizing their human right to return and rebuild their lives and communities." (Jeffrey Buchanan, Blueprint for Gulf Renewal, August/September 2007). Two years later, as the struggle to collect promised aid, return home, rebuild and recover looms perilously close to failure, a story being told by some 600 New Orleans evacuees may not have had a voice without Taproot Productions' documentary Desert Bayou.

British investigative author, Jimmy Lee Shreeve, uncovered how an artist's painting of Diana put Elton John in spirit communication with the tragic princess, helping to heal the rock star's grief over her death. The story was first picked up by Britain's "Sunday Express" and then shot around the world.

In late July, UK-based investigative author Jimmy Lee Shreeve was contacted via his website by an American artist who said his portrait of Princess Diana - which he gave to Sir Elton John in 1997 - seemed to have taken on mysterious powers.