Topic: Culture & Society

Although this article deals with automobile-UFO coverage in the UK, we figure, how different can their laws be? After all, we both speak the same language, sort of, and Tony Blair and "W" certainly liked the same wars. Besides, this is too, too funny not to share with you.

Following recent news stories about a UFO allegedly wrecking a wind turbine, specialist car insurance broker Adrian Flux had a call from a curious customer asking what would happen if a UFO crashed into his car. Which got the Flux boffins thinking about what bizarre accidents were or weren't covered.

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If a UFO crashes into your car, are you covered?

Without a plan, trees in your community could be endangered, according to a new report by the American Planning Association.

Can you imagine your community without trees? Urban tree canopy in metropolitan areas has been steadily declining. Your community is at risk without an integrated urban forestry program according to a new report by the American Planning Association (APA).

Leviticus International promises to help miserable straights become ex straights. Brother Richard of Leviticus, says anyone can become a happy well-adjusted gay or lesbian through the power of prayer and Jesus Christ.

Revision Studios, famous for the Princess Diana Gay Bible has launched Leviticus International, a new website which promises to help unhappy straights become gay. According to film producer Max Mitchell, creator of the site, "Jesus Christ has the power to end heterosexuals' misery and make them happy well-adjusted gays." Mitchell recently produced Horror In The Wind, about two bio-geneticists who invent an airborne formula that reverses the whole world's sexual orientation.

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Straight lifestyle. Do you want to live like this?

According to Steven Pfeiffer, a professor in Florida State’s Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, being a "gifted" child can come with it's own set of needs.

Though not often recognized as “special needs” students, gifted children require just as much attention and educational resources to thrive in school as do other students whose physical, behavioral, emotional or learning needs require special accommodations. So says a Florida State University professor who has studied gifted students for years.

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Handbook of Giftedness in Children.

While most readers of AlternativeApproaches.com will remember Montalbán for his role as Khan in "Star Trek: The Original Series" and "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," the general public will likely remember him most for his role as Mr. Roarke on "Fantasy Island." According to those who knew him, he was a class act whose passing deserves to be noted.

Khan Noonien Singh will not be missed. However, Ricardo Montalbán, the actor who portrayed Khan in both the original Star Trek episode Space Seed and in the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, will not only be missed, he will be mourned. Montalbán died today in Los Angeles at the age of 88 of yet to be announced causes.

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Ricardo Montalbán as Khan in the first season of the original Star Trek series.

Here at AlternativeApproaches.com, we've had a long running love/hate thing going on with the term "New Age." The trouble is, although everybody hates the term, it's the only thing we've got. Everybody knows what the "New Age" is, which doesn't apply to other suggested names. Kyva Holman's come up with a new, perhaps more precise, certainly more acceptable name for the New Age. We suggest it's adaptation, so we can finally lay the term "New Age" to rest.

The remarkable election of an African American junior senator to the highest office in the land speaks volumes to our collective desire for a radical departure from the politics of the last eight years. Barack Obama’s “change” mantra, not new to the American campaign lexicon, took on a palpable urgency this season. A tangle of emotions: hope, pride, outrage and fear, swept the long shot candidate to victory and at the outset of 2009 the world watches and waits anxiously to learn exactly what mode of reality we are substituting the former one for. In this time of peril and destabilization, a critical re-examination of our definitive terms and their underlying principles seems to be in order.

As we move away from our belief in a monolithic God who is only male to embrace the feminine aspects of the divine, it does us well to look at gender issues within ourselves.

Traditional approaches to masculinity and femininity have long obscured and oversimplified a multidimensional subject into one that either treats them as opposite sides of a spectrum or regards them as two separate dimensions. The new nonfiction book by Richard W. Coan, notable professor emeritus of the University of Arizona, Masculine, Feminine, and Fully Human: Developmental Paths Through the Adult Years, takes a different approach and invites self-assessment and exploration into the fulfillment of human potential.

It doesn't come as a surprize to us, Goddess folks that we are, that history has misunderstood Lucrezia Borgia. It appears that historians have been judging her by so-called "women's standards," and by that matter she failed miserably (or miserably failed - you decide). Lo and behold, it turns out that she was an incredible businesswoman, and a great success.

In popular legend, Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (1480- 1519), stands falsely accused of poisoning her second husband. Victor Hugo portrayed her in thinly veiled fiction as a tragic femme fatale. Buffalo Bill named his gun after her.

The woman who played the part of Nurse Christine Chapel and Lwaxana Troi on "Star Trek," and who was the widow of Gene Roddenberry, died in December at age 76.

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was known as "The Voice of Star Trek" because she played the the voice of the Enterprise's computers on every Star Trek television incarnation from the original series through Enterprise. She was also known as "The First Lady of Star Trek," because she had a hand in the production of every Star Trek TV series and motion picture, and because she was married to the series creator Gene Roddenberry. Fans of the show knew her as Nurse Christine Chapel in the original series, and as the telepathic Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi, mother of ship's counselor Deanna Troi, in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.

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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as Lwaxana Troi in the Deep Space Nine episode Fascination.

This simple guide provides sustainable and healthy solutions for every room in the house--from the kitchen and bathroom to the laundry room and garage.

Adapting green cleaning solutions is one easy way for an individual to help the environment while reducing toxic chemicals and excess waste in the home. For those looking for a simple guide, Green Cleaning For Dummies provides sustainable and healthy solutions for every room in the house--from the kitchen and bathroom to the laundry room and garage.