Topic: Culture & Society

Inventor announces the unveiling of godsbot - an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software program "intended to bring peace on the world-wide-web and goodwill to all beings."

Yesterday, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software program known as godsbot was announced by inventor Ron Ingram. "godsbot", Ingram said yesterday, "was activated Christmas day and announced today, Epiphany, for the purpose of bringing peace on the world-wide-web and goodwill to all beings."

In "Reflections of Her Mountain Look," Linda French relates the heroic story of one woman's struggle to expose the evil of a religious cult and a judicial system that failed her.

Linda French's new book, Reflections of Her Mountain Look, is the biography of her dear friend, Jenny, who fell victim to deceitful promises of a God-filled religious life-style. After 18 months she was excommunicated from what turned out to be a cult lifestyle, but it took nearly six years to unweave the entanglement and over 20 years before she could share her traumatic experiences.

Celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Hayden Panettiere, 50 Cent, Raul Julia-Levy and Paul Rubio call for the release of Lolita from a Miami Seaquarium by joining forces with the Orca Network. The exploitation of Lolita has continued for over 30 years as she lives in solitary confinement at the seaquarium. The celebrities are giving a voice to Lolita's plight.

Celebrities from all facets of the entertainment industry have pooled together to fight for the release of a captive L pod orca whale named Lolita. According to the Orca Network, actors, producers, singers and philanthropists have volunteered as spokespersons for the campaign to release Lolita from the Miami Seaquarium to her native habitat in the Pacific Northwest after 37 years of captivity.

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Lolita at the Miami Seaquarium.

A tongue in cheek look at the rigors of being an elected official. With Iowa just a few days away, we couldn't resist.

As we face the end of the calendar year, the National League of Cities would like to offer a lighthearted look at the serious job facing local elected officials every day.

How humanity reacts to global warming will have a great effect on how successfully we deal with this issue. Will be be proactive and tackle global warming head on, or will we wait until it's too late?

Over the past 50 years, humans have changed the world’s ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any other comparable period in human history. The Great Acceleration, stage 2 of the Anthropocene epoch, begs the question of how humankind will react in stage 3. A new study reviews three broad philosophical approaches that address the Earth System. This study is published in the latest issue of Ambio.

Scientists long have focused on how climate and vegetation allowed human ancestors to evolve in Africa. Now, University of Utah geologists are calling renewed attention to the idea that ground movements formed mountains and valleys, creating environments that favored the emergence of humanity.

Scientists long have focused on how climate and vegetation allowed human ancestors to evolve in Africa. Now, University of Utah geologists are calling renewed attention to the idea that ground movements formed mountains and valleys, creating environments that favored the emergence of humanity.

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Nahid and Royhan Gani, geologists at the
University of Utah's Energy and Geoscience
Institute, stand on the Ethiopian Plateau near
the Gorge of the Nile, which was carved by
Africa's Blue Nile River. The Ganis are studying
the timing of the canyon's incision to learn
more about how movements of Earth's crust
are related to human evolution.

The National Wildlife Federation has teamed up with NatureFind to make it easy for you to get in touch with nature in your neighborhood.

It’s December 27 and cabin fever has set in. The out-of-town relatives are driving you crazy, the fridge is down to egg nog and a left-over cheese ball, you’ve run out of batteries, the cat has knocked most of the ornaments off the tree, the kids are reeling from their candy cane sugar buzz, three new toys have already broken. HELP! How can you escape?

Resting in less than 10 feet of Caribbean seawater, the wreckage of Quedagh Merchant, the ship abandoned by the scandalous 17th century pirate Captain William Kidd as he raced to New York in an ill-fated attempt to clear his name, has escaped discovery -- until now.

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IU marine protection authority Charles Beeker examines possible wreckage from Capt.
Kidd's Quedagh Merchant.

An underwater archaeology team from Indiana University announced today the discovery of the remnants. IU marine protection authority Charles Beeker said his team has been licensed to study the wreckage and to convert the site into an underwater preserve, where it will be accessible to the public.

What should a family understand if a child or relative chooses to disclose their sexual orientation during the annual holiday gathering or decides to reveal more about his/her experiences as a gay or lesbian person?

What should a family understand if a child or relative chooses to disclose their sexual orientation during the annual holiday gathering or decides to reveal more about his/her experiences as a gay or lesbian person? Rather than see the news as a ‘bombshell,’ perhaps they should view it as an unexpected gift, says psychologist Robert-Jay Green, PhD. Green is executive director of the Rockway Institute, a national center for science and LGBT public policy at the California School of Professional Psychology, a part of Alliant International University in San Francisco.

Siobhán Barry-Bratcher's new young adult novel is giving kids insight into how the Summer of Love impacted their generation and as much as her own.

Finding one's place in the world and fending off bullies are challenges confronted by every generation of teenagers. Siobhán Barry-Bratcher's new novel is giving today's younger generation valuable insight into what it was like to face those challenges during a period in history when so many of America's adult citizens believed their country was in the throes of a nervous breakdown.