Topic: Culture & Society

The Indic Studies Foundation plans a series of annual seminars and workshops to address this issue.

SF Bay area based Indic Studies Foundation has announced a series of annual seminars and workshops to address the issue of distorted history of India. Its president, Dr. Kosla Vepa, stated that "freedom is a natural desire among all humans, and India's history needs to be freed from its colonial past on the same footing as India's political freedom was attained sixty years ago."

Documentary DVD "Secrets Of The Stone Tablets-In Search Of Montezuma's Treasure" has been released, with historically accurate information, newly discovered artifacts and new theories about the Aztecs, early Spanish Explorers, and the Dillman Family's closely held secret about their 1982 archaeological discovery at a remote site filled with artifacts, human remains, a sacrificial altar, with proof of human sacrifices, cannibalism, and more.

After more than forty years of research and archaeological fieldwork a team of explorers and treasure hunters from California are ready to present to the world evidence that the Peralta Stone Tablets discovered in 1949 are authentic, and lead to several archaeological sites in the American Southwest, and may soon reveal the location of "Montezuma's Treasure," the lost Aztec treasure that early Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes was unable to fully capture and take back to Spain, as he and his Conquistadors were ejected out of Mexico on the historical Night of Tears.

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With Halloween coming up, we can't help but take an interest in all things haunted. Well, even though that's our story in October, we're actually fascinated by haunted places throughout the year. Besides, this list has some places we'd like to see anyway.

Does your hotel reservation include a full moon, wandering apparitions, forbidden guest rooms and mysterious disappearances? If so, you may be staying in a haunted hotel. If not, you may be missing out. Find out which hotels around the world have skeletons in the closet with boo.com's recommendations for the top five mysterious hotels with a past. You may want to keep on the light, if you stay the night.

Find out how a Michigan geek tamed the online masses.

Launched long before blogs and news aggregators ruled the Internet, Slashdot has spent the past decade cherry-picking and linking to what the site bills as "news for nerds"--the cool and crucial science and technology stories that Rob Malda and his crew of nine think you must know: a massive cave found on Mars, artificial intelligence used to train firefighters, a "chairbot" that walks you around while you sit.

Ghost stories and other tales of the supernatural have been part of folklore and literature for centuries, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst classics professor Debbie Felton, who collects and studies spooky tales from ancient Greece and Rome as well as more modern literary works.

These days, Halloween is all about good scary fun, but people have been thrilling to spooky tales as far back as ancient Greece and Rome, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst classics professor Debbie Felton, who studies the folklore of the supernatural.

New website offers paranormal themed social networking, where paranormal enthusiasts, ghost hunters, ufo researchers and alternative news-hounds can meet, exchange comments and messages and collectively research a wide array of topics.

A new social networking community has sprung out of a very popular paranormal news website. Owners of The Paranormal Report, launched in early July, have released another paranormal site, this time with all the makings of a really interesting community.

In one electrifying instant, Dr. Tony Cicoria's life changed forever. He had never thought of becoming a pianist, but at age 42, he was struck by lightning and was overcome with an insatiable desire to begin playing the piano. He will perform his first composition, "Lightning Sonata," on Wednesday, October 17th.

In 1994, Dr. Tony Cicoria was talking to his mother on a payphone. A successful orthopedic surgeon in upstate New York, he had never thought of becoming a pianist - but just as he was setting down the phone, he was struck by a rogue bolt of lightning that, in one electrifying instant, changed his life forever. Following the aftermath of his near-death experience, he developed an insatiable desire to play the piano. This fierce, unrelenting drive led him to fill every second of spare time with the piano, often playing until the early morning hours.

GreenEnergyChoice provides simple lifestyle changes to save money and the environment.

The website GreenEnergyChoice has identified several ways in which living green can actually save money. To save money while living a green lifestyle, GreenEnergyChoice recommends making the following changes:

A study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health says that abuses include forced displacement and labor, attacks on civilians by soldiers, and injury from landmines.

Gross human rights violations, including forced displacement, forced labor, attacks by soldiers on civilians, injury from landmines and destruction or theft of food supplies, have been widespread in eastern Burma (also known as Myanmar), with over half of households in displaced areas reporting incidents in the 12 months prior to a 2004 survey. The study, completed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and other institutions, is published in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Fresh strawberries and dry ice combine for a mysterious taste sensation.

Monsters and vampires won't be the only thing making your friends and family shiver with delight this Halloween. Carbonated strawberries will haunt the minds of your little ghosts and goblins and make your ghoulish gathering the talk of the neighborhood.