Topic: Culture & Society

Goh Heng Thean's Immortality and Intelligence suggests that the death of mankind is not inevitable and that increased knowledge can lead to discoveries that can make the human race immortal.

A market research report conducted by Vizu Corporation and Green Home Inc. has confirmed that people are convinced the global warming phenomenon exists (70%) and is important (74%). However, the public remains unsure of the cause of global warming, and is debating whether the culprit is human behavior (26%), natural climate cycles (26%) or some combination of the two (25%).

Music download site nugs.net has assembled an all-star compilation of exclusive live tracks to raise money for several Rock The Earth campaigns to defend the United States' environmental resources. nugs.net's artist partners donated the recordings for this compilation, including an exclusive release from Jack Johnson. Other artists contributing to the benefit compilation include Widespread Panic, The Disco Biscuits, The Radiators, The String Cheese Incident, Phish, Trey Anastasio, Dave Matthews Band, Gov't Mule, STS9, Zero, Umphrey's McGee, Grateful Dead, moe., and ALO. nugs.net and the 15 artists featured on the benefit release organized this compilation out of their dedication to providing continued support for the worldwide environmental community.

Boris Nikolayevitch Yeltsin is dead. His death in Moscow at 76, was announced today.

Do you wait for the State of the Union Address to find out where our country stands? Would you believe them anyway? According to its makers, the recently released documentary One Nation Under Siege discloses all.

Earth Day is the time for raising awareness of environmental factor, good and bad. Education is key in making informed decisions that affect the future of our planet, and inevitably our future generations.

Hearst Magazines has announced the Earth Day 2007 launch of a consumer Web site dedicated to earth-friendly living called The Daily Green. The Daily Green will be a one-stop Web destination where the fast-growing community of green consumers can find each other and everything they need to know to embrace a more energy-conscious, natural foods-oriented and environment-friendly lifestyle.

Positive Energy. It's a term being talked about a lot more frequently in classrooms, board rooms and locker rooms. After all, when business legend Jack Welch says that great leaders have loads and loads of positive energy and Pete Carroll, coach of USC football credits positive energy as a key ingredient to winning two national championships, people listen, take notice and start asking questions. What is positive energy? How do I develop it as a leader? How can I infuse my team with it?

(Radio Free Asia) Labrang, a large and historically important Tibetan Buddhist monastery in China's central Gansu province, is finding its activities and enrollment increasingly restricted by Chinese policy.

"Year by year, the practice of teaching and studying of the Dharma [the Buddhist religion] is deteriorating. It's not getting better," Jigme Gyatso, a monk living at Labrang, told RFA's Tibetan service.

In the last year, the popularity of bamboo sheets and other bamboo products has shot up almost as quickly as the plant itself. This versatile natural fiber has many qualities prized especially by the linens industry - including antimicrobial properties and 'breathability.' As customers spring for more eco-friendly products, bamboo has found its way not only into sheets, but towels, clothing and flooring as well.