Topic: Culture & Society

New research suggests that the average supermarket shopper is willing to pay a premium price for locally produced foods, providing some farmers an attractive option to enter a niche market that could boost their revenues.

New research suggests that the average supermarket shopper is willing to pay a premium price for locally produced foods, providing some farmers an attractive option to enter a niche market that could boost their revenues.

Not suprizingly, it appears that the fundies are in a snit over Oprah's embrace of New Age or New Though ideas. In our mind, however, "Don't Drink the Kool-Aid would be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

(Press Release) The Beatles don't have anything on Oprah. In an interview on July 29, 1966, John Lennon stated that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." Robert Fontenot, Jr., an entertainment critic and journalist says in an article on About.com, that "it remains one of the biggest pop music scandals of all time, but even that dubious honor can't really convey the impact the statement had in those bygone days." According to Wikipedia, "The American Bible Belt protested in the South and Midwest, and conservative groups staged public burnings of Beatles' records and memorabilia. Many radio stations banned The Beatles' music, and some concert venues cancelled performances."

Will America have the same reaction when they are aware that Oprah says that "we are God?"

The oldest living person in the world claims she's 134 from the nomadic tribe of the Raj Gond in India. She knows the medicinal properties of over 1,000 native plants & has delivered a thousand babies. She credits her longevity to family, tea, herbal medicines, and a nip of alochol here & there.

Ghaini Lal Signh Jamkar, from the state of Maharastra in India, claims to be at least 130 years old. Although completely illiterate, she has embraced the idea of getting her story onto the world wibe web.

CEO and co-founder of the web site Story of My Life says, "The goal of Story of My Life is to get a story about every single person in the world onto our site. So we decided to start at the top, with the oldest living person." Tracking down rumors that there was an even older person than the official oldest living person of record, Story of My Life assembled a team to India to meet her, and recorded Mrs. Ghaini's story along with video and numerous pictures of her and her vast family.

There are plenty of people in the New Age who believe that the mother ship of the Galactic Sisterhood is on it's way to rescue us. The ship comes from a world where everyone is something akin to a Tibetan Buddhist. When they get here, they will show our leaders and the capitalists who control the world economy the errors of their ways, we will all evolve into spiritual beings of great compassion and the planet will live happily ever after.

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Marshall Vian Summers, author of The Allies of Humanity, Book One, wants you to know that's not how it is.

As Indiana Jones' fourth adventure hits to the big screen, an international team of archaeologists, anthropologists, museum specialists, ethicists and lawyers is pondering ethical and legal issues unintentionally raised in the films. Their focus on cultural heritage has a particular emphasis on the archaeological record.

In the opening moments of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones manages to seize a priceless indigenous relic from a South American temple, but not without leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.

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Dr. Brian Noble, a real life Indiana Jones.

Clarkson University’s interdisciplinary engineering and management program is breaking new ground by preparing tomorrow’s business and technical leaders to incorporate environmental considerations into decision-making.

Launched more than 50 years ago, Clarkson University’s interdisciplinary engineering and management (iE&M) program has served as a model for subsequent programs developed by other universities.

No longer is the problem just that we need to slow down. Now we need to quit trying to do twenty things at once and learn to focus on the task at hand.

A few weeks ago, I returned to the classroom of Dennis Dalton, the most important college professor of my life. From the back of an amphitheater seating several hundred students, I realized how much things had evolved at Columbia and Barnard. The lecture hall was now equipped with a wireless sound system, webcams, video projectors, wireless internet. Students were using computers to record the lecture and to take notes. Heads were buried in screens, the tap tap of hundreds of keyboards like rain on the roof.

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Josh Waitzkin's latest book, The Art of Learning.

After California's Supreme Court Decision on Gay Marriage, San Francisco therapist Michael Halyard says lesbian and gay couples should include premarital therapy in their wedding plans.

As lesbian and gay couples plan their summer weddings, many therapists argue that premarital counseling should be part of those plans. "Premarital counseling helps couples slow down and be conscious about their decision-- helping them to determine what marriage will mean for their relationships," says San Francisco Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) Michael Halyard.

Some Oregon residents took some big steps to improve their environmental friendly living styles after completing a program at the University of Oregon. Their efforts resulted in reduced greenhouse emissions by two tons per person.

Forty-two Eugene-area residents took some big steps to improve their environmental friendly living styles after completing a newly developed Climate Master program at the University of Oregon. Their efforts resulted in reduced greenhouse emissions by two tons per person, according to a review of the program's first year.

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Sarah Mazze of the University of Oregon is the director of the newly developed Climate Master program to help individuals reduce their carbon footprint.

Author Rob Mason attempts to reduce UFOs to science. Unlike many books on this subject, even the speculations of this book have a scientific basis.

The UFO Experience Reconsidered: Science and Speculation was inspired by, and is loosely based on The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry (1972) by the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Dr. Hynek's book is generally considered to be a classic and the most influential book ever written about UFOs but much has happened since 1972. This new book not only brings us up-to-date, but extrapolates on current science whenever possible. The book is published by Schooner Moon Books of Mendocino, California.