Topic: Culture & Society

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.

If women find their husbands reluctant to fold the laundry or wash the dishes, they may want to hide the television remote. New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that men, in particular, are influenced by television commercials that more often portray them in a career environment than doing domestic duties.

Talk about a number that can't get a break.

If women find their husbands reluctant to fold the laundry or wash the dishes, they may want to hide the television remote. New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that men, in particular, are influenced by television commercials that more often portray them in a career environment than doing domestic duties.

Author Dennis Brooks looks to the writings of Plato to find Atlantis in "Atlantis Was America: Tampa Was the Royal City."

Atlantis Was America: Tampa Was The Royal City, a new book by Dennis Brooks, presents a fascinating interpretation of Plato's more than 2000-year-old dialogue on the lost civilization of Atlantis.

Once upon a time, the vegetables, flour, meat, fruits and dairy products Americans consumed came from family farms located in local rural areas outside of our cities.

A food security expert at the University at Buffalo says the worldwide food crisis is a direct result of the choices made by policy makers and the lack of attention paid to the food system and its relationship to global warming and fossil fuels.

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University at Buffalo food security expert Samina Raja, Ph.D.