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A Better Way to Recycle Plastic
Perhaps we can take a lesson from the innovative entrepreneurs of India when it comes to recycling plastics.
"Alka loves plastics for an exciting reason;...
Habanero Peppers Wilt Cancer Cells
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA researchers report habanero peppers have the power to drive prostate cancer cells to commit suicide.
Capsaicin, the compound that makes...
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (Hardcover) The researchers who wrote this fascinating book characterize a new group of...
Spirituality and Religion Prevalent Among College Professors
Eighty-one percent of U.S. college professors consider themselves “spiritual,” according to a report by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. The...
Optimism is Healthy
A 2006 Dutch study of elderly men found a lower risk for cardiovascular death for those identified as optimistic.
The research found optimism to be...
Blue Butterfly Back From the Brink
The Smithsonian published a feature article in 2005 called Back From the Brink that asserted: "Not every endangered species is doomed. Thanks to tough laws,...
Why Good News? Counting the Benefits
Good news is often considered too soft and unimportant to be valuable in one’s real life. The truth is, good news can create concrete,...
GE Is Going Green
The CEO of America's biggest corporation did something astonishing this week: He staked his company's future on its ability, in his words, "to define...
Coping With Disappointment Like Edison
"If he listened more to the inner voice and less to the clamorous voice of the external world, he would find a strength and...
Lake Tahoe Still Blue, Clearest Since 1992
Lake Tahoe is the clearest it has been in 10 years, said U.C. Davis researchers last week.
The lake's clarity is measured by lowering a...
Diet Linked to Hyper Kids
A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement,...
New Microbe Destroys Chemical Pollutant in Groundwater
Scientists have discovered a microbe that interacts with a hazardous industrial chemical in tainted groundwater rendering it biodegradable.
Trichloroethane (TCA) is an industrial solvent and...
Comeback News: Seals, Humpbacks, and Urchins Increasing
Steller sea lions in Alaska are making a comeback. An aerial survey of the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands spotted more than 19,000...
First International Positive Psychology Summit: Psychologists Herald ways to Live Happily Ever After
A group of upstart scientists, scholars and researchers in the field of psychology have decided that it is more important to focus on what...
Healing the Globe: 11 Bright Spots
A quick rundown of 11 bright spots that are healing the globe, from Cairo to California, from Bolivia to British Columbia, From Moroco to...
Healing on Her Mind; Surviving a Brain Tumor
As Cheryl Clark began a weekend horseback ride one sunny October afternoon in 1997, a time bomb went off. A violent seizure threw the...
Cancer and Christmas Both Begin with C
We can even use holidays to enrich the soul and strengthen it for harder times, so that when those times come, as they will...
Toastmasters Reforms Inmates While They Are in Prison
A Letter From A Louisiana Judge
According to criminal justice sources, 95 percent of crime is committed by criminals who have already been to prison....
Extraordinary Speech by President Clinton in China
President Clinton's 10-day trip to China, the world's most populous nation and second largest economy, has concluded. For the Chinese, the trip was nothing...
Ralston Purina CARES
Ralston Purina created a program of funding in 1989 called Purina C.A.R.E.S. In eight years it donated more than $3.9 million to local zoos...