The most important thing, maybe not to Nasa, but certainly its' astronauts, is the availability of water in space. To solve this problem, Nasa engineers...
“A nation which makes great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”-...
"For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.”-...
"The human being may be no more real than is a cinematograph film. When the projected light is switched off all that remains is a blank screen. That...
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil discusses the future of technology by the year 2020. Ray talks about what is currently being developed...
I find the strangest things sometimes. Apparently National Geographic did a special a while back on the world's first head transplant. It was performed...
Hans Rosling, a professor of international health at Karolinska Institutet, the medical university in Stockholm, Sweden, has found a fascinating way...
Current electrical power generation plants currently use nuclear energy to create copious amounts of steam that in turn motivate turbines to generate...
"A militant kind of aggressive religiosity, sometimes called "fundamentalism" has grown up in every single one of the major world traditions as a rebellion...
When it comes to creative spark and design, few can deny the awesomeness of the "innovation and design" firm Ideo. In the following TED video, the CEO...
The French have launched their own version of Google called Quaero. You just type in the subject you’re interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it...
Below is the foward to the book, "Everything Forever" by Gevin Giorbran. This book describes the timelessness of the universe. As Einstein once said,...
The brilliantly hilarious theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman, had a very interesting notion of the universe, which eventually lead to his theory...
Beyond the iris captures allAll with whom light shares its powerPower concentrated in form of flowerFlower arranged like atoms of oursOur selves left...
"The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept...
It seems like yesterday that the U.S. government decided to provision its' citizens with a nation-wide tax refund. Literally, the Federal Reserve printed...
"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden....
"Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our effectiveness, our responsiveness....
I recently came across a phenomenal article on a Vedic approach toward attaining business excellence. The article creates some wonderful abstractions...
My eyes pry deep disguise none but in sleepSo the next time you look in mine be sure to speakFor the last moments wake may bring the truth you seekThis...
It is important to recognize the power of our emotions--and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves....
It is interesting reading about the advances and enhancements that have been made to this thing we call life. Only in the past century have we truly...
Who's the judge?The judge is God.And why is he God?Because he decides who wins or loses, not my opponent.And who is your opponent?He doesn't exist.And...
Ataraxia (Ἀταραξία) is a Greek term used by Pyrrho and Epicurus for a limpid state, characterized by freedom from worry or any other preoccupation.For...
"Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1 ) What I did was wrong. 2 ) I’m sorry that I hurt you. 3 ) How do I make it better? It’s...
"I gave way to delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that this world- so manifestly real was actually...
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons,...
"I think there is so much more in existence besides matter, energy, and time. Nineteenth-century physics had those in an orderly arrangement, but it...
First cars that run on water, then temperature sensitive color morphing materials, now fuel-free energy generation using just magnets. A wonderful bunch...
"States have been storing blood samples from newborns since blood screening for genetic defects and diseases began in the 1960s. The samples can help...
"We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief. Chuang Tzu, in the third...
One thing comes into mind when reading this article: if a two year old gets a hold of one of these, they just might stop asking their parents, "...and...
I was lost in loveThen drowned to swimI've since built a boatNow I'm floating the brimYou can't replace the love lost and retracedDisplace misery with...
Clifford Stoll is a brilliantly eccentric scientist. His enthusiasm and broad range of knowledge enables him to think on levels most have difficulty...
"One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the...
I recently came across a blog post by Simon Quellen Field, whom found a wonderful gem of news, nearly a year ago, regarding research done at Wake Forest...
"Let go of the past! Let go of the future! Let go of the present and cross over to the farther shore of existence. With your mind wholly liberated, you...
"The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits....
"The Art of Peace does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms,...
Holding back the lustTurned face with distrustFollowing a path in mindBringing life to the dustWhen the time is rightChoose the path to keep your passion...
Image courtesy of CaiGuoQuiang.comI recently saw an exhibition at NY's Guggenheim featuring the collective works of an artist by the name of Cai Guo-Qiang....
"Having found no self that is not other,The seeker must find that there is no other that is not self,So that in the absence of both other and self,There...
With genius devotionSurrealists in motionHearts' eyes intertwineReveal imaginationAs time unravels its' lifeMatter fuses and foldsSpiraling rears to...
The ideas in this animation come from the first chapter of a popular new book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension." The movie succinctly covers the new concepts...
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look...
Politics A little boy asks his father what politics is. His father tries to explain. "Well, son," he says, "I go out into the world every day and make...
David Bolinsky, an animator for the medical industries, has begun a relatively large project, in collaboration with Harvard, to put together a visual...
Can you see a sound?Can you hear light?Can you unite your senses?Can you turn inward?What we are all seeking is clarity. Forget about religious rationalizations....
"One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of...
"In Buddhism, there is a teaching called the "three bodies" (sanjin), also called the "three properties" or the "three enlightened properties". These...
Snakes of colorSpirals deployWrapped in timeCloaked for ployPlant sewn crystalsWater and vineRed serum slumberHeavenly rewindUnfurled fumesGaseous and...
In another article by Ethan Zuckerman, a brilliant tale of consciousness through the eyes of a stroke victim, whom just happens to be a research psychiatrist...
Artist's view of star formation in the early universe. By Adolf Schaller. Source: NASA.I recently came across an article, by Ethan Zuckerman, on Murray...
Evelyn Glennie is the only person I have witnessed speak so clairvoyantly about the substance of music, and with such accuracy. In this 30 minute speech,...
A brilliant composer, Jonathan Clark, is putting together a modern opera with a genomics theme. It seems very ambitious, and worth a gander.http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD021032.htmlIn...
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology;...
"Rinsing away dreams is a way of saying that we must not only dispel the illusions and anxieties of our sleeping moments but those of our waking ones...
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"The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration...
“’Gratitude’ is a euphemism for resentment…The Japanese have five different ways to say ‘thank you’—and every one of them translates literally as resentment,...
"A painting, like all art, is nothing more than a transgression of ideas; as is every form and every communication. This is best expressed through time...
People search for a world of peaceWhat they find is a world with peace in mindNever ending cycles repeating sorrowful kindsRevolving around time, held...