"Every soul that uplifts itself uplifts the world"
Elisabeth Leseur (1866-1914)

India: Literacy rate attributed to Christianity

Seeded on Tue Sep 1, 2009 4:36 PM EDT (Spero News)

The Church has contributed to democracy and literacy through education programs, social work, and welfare activities. There are historical records of Christians in Kerala from the 8th century onwards.

india, church, catholic, world-news, christianity

When Zombies Attack!

Seeded on Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:14 PM EDT (Discovery.com)

It's summertime, and the living is easy. Or, in the case of this week's podcast, the living dead, who are not, as they say, resting easy.

science, zombies

The Most Misunderstood Man in America

Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:27 PM EDT (Newsweek)

QUOTE FROM ARTICLE: "As Stiglitz puts it: 'Globalization opened up opportunities to find new people to exploit their ignorance. And we found them.'"

business, newsweek

Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Creeping Northward over the Past 300 Years

Seeded on Thu Jul 2, 2009 10:07 PM EDT (AccuWeather.com)

New research from the University of Washington indicates that the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), which is a persistent band of showers and heavy thunderstorms that produces heavy rainfall near the equator, has been creeping northward for more than 300 years now.

global-warming, science, intertropical-convergence-zone

Ancient Supervolcano's Eruption Caused Decade Of Severe Winters

Seeded on Thu Jul 2, 2009 10:02 PM EDT (Science Daily)

ScienceDaily (July 2, 2009) — Previous studies have suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it erupted about 74,000 years ago, triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, and also may have produced a short-lived "volcanic winter," which drastically reduced t …

science, ice-age, ice-sheet, supervolcano, volcanic-winter

Ancient creatures survived arctic winters

Seeded on Fri Jun 5, 2009 5:42 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

53 million years ago the Arctic had a completely different look. Flowering plants and hippo-like creatures once thrived in the Arctic, where the tundra and polar bears now prevail.

canada, science, arctic, polar-bears, prehistoric, ellesmere-island

Chimp-Made Toolkit Most Complex Ever Found

Seeded on Tue Jun 2, 2009 4:49 PM EDT (Discovery.com)

June 2, 2009 -- Central African chimpanzees crave honey so much that they've invented the animal kingdom's most complex known set of tools to get it, according to researchers who found many of the tools still slathered with the syrupy liquid.

science

Sorting Out Sweeteners: Agave Corn Syrup Sugar and More

Seeded on Sun May 17, 2009 4:26 PM EDT (MSN)

Sweetness travels under a variety of aliases.

food, health, maple, sugar, diabetes, syrup, beverage, honey, fructose, molasses

Dan Haifley: Life on an undersea volcano - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Seeded on Sat May 2, 2009 11:39 AM EDT (Santa Cruz Sentinel Local)

There's an ancient volcano off California's shore that stands a mighty 7,480 feet tall. Yet its summit lies 4,101 feet below the ocean's surface.

california, science, ocean, wildlife, monterey, seamount

Dancing Birds Feel the Beat

Seeded on Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:34 PM EDT (Discovery.com)

April 30, 2009 -- Birds can boogie to the beat, according to two new studies that found birds, especially parrots, have rhythm and an apparent appreciation for certain songs that compel them to bob their heads, tap their feet and sway their bodies in time to music.

music, birds, science, dance, rhythm, songs, parrots

Green Mountain Coffee and Keurig Brewers to Appear in Walmart Stores Nationwide | Single Serve Coffee - SingleServeCoffee.com

Seeded on Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:31 PM EDT (singleservecoffee.com)

Big news on the single serve coffee maker K-Cup front. Walmart and the Keurig business unit of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.

coffee, us-news, walmart, keurig, green-mountain, k-cups

Dinosaurs Lived in the Arctic

Seeded on Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:46 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

One theory holds that cold, brought on by the Sun's concealment, is what did them in, but a team of paleontologists led by Pascal Godefroit, of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, argues otherwise.

science, arctic, dinosaurs

No 'Burp' Accelerating Climate Change? Wetlands Likely Source Of Methane From Ancient Warming Event

Seeded on Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:46 PM EDT (Science Daily)

ScienceDaily (Apr.

gas, global-warming, scripps, world-news, methane, greenland

Mom-to-be hit by car while fleeing bear is OK on Yahoo! News

Seeded on Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:34 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

A pregnant woman who was fleeing a bear when she was struck by a slow-moving car said she would honor the euthanized animal by giving her baby the middle name "Bear."

denver, bear, hit-and-run, us-news, hiking, colorado-springs, mother-to-be

More Americans Believe Global Warming Natural Versus Man-made | NewsBusters.org

Seeded on Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:10 AM EDT (newsbusters.org)

Despite years of hysterical, Al Gore-loving media hype that humans are destroying the planet by emitting too much carbon dioxide, more Americans now believe global warming is being caused by long-term planetary forces rather than man's activities.

global-warming, world-news, carbon-dioxide

Arctic May Be Ice-Free in 30 Years

Seeded on Sat Apr 4, 2009 3:00 PM EDT (Discovery.com)

April 3, 2009 -- Some 80 percent of Arctic ice may disappear in 30 years, not 90 as scientists had previously estimated, according to a new study on the impact of global warming.

global-warming, science, ice, arctice

Review: Green Mountain Fair Trade Wild Mountain Blueberry K-Cups | Single Serve Coffee - SingleServeCoffee.com

Seeded on Wed Apr 1, 2009 9:31 PM EDT (singleservecoffee.com)

We decided to give some of our old favorites another try as we wait for newer seasonal varieties to arrive, so our first pick was Green Mountain's Fair Trade Wild Blueberry K-Cups.

coffee, single-serve-coffee, green-mountain, k-cups

World's Volcanoes Erupt - ABC News

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:50 PM EDT (ABC News)

Wanted to share these photos on Mt. Redoubt's eruption.

alaska, science, volcanoes

Female Birds 'Jam' Their Mates' Flirtatious Songs

Seeded on Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:49 PM EDT (Science Daily)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 16, 2009) — When a single female is nearby, female antbirds will sing over the songs of their male partners in an apparent attempt to keep their messages from getting through, according to a new report published online on March 12th in Current Biology.

birds, science, singing, songs

Birds Facing Dire Future Under Warming

Seeded on Sat Mar 7, 2009 12:40 AM EST (Discovery.com)

March 4, 2009 -- Birds in Europe are already feeling the heat from climate change, with three species suffering reduced ranges or population for every one that benefits from warming, said a study published Wednesday.

britain, europe, global-warming, birds, climate-change, world-news

Greenland Warming Lags, But Bound to Catch Up

Seeded on Sat Feb 28, 2009 5:14 PM EST (Discovery.com)

Feb. 27, 2009 -- One of the world's most important remaining ice reserves on Earth remains deceptively cold.

global-warming, environment, science, earth, greenland

Ice Declining Faster Than Expected In Both Arctic And Antarctic Glaciers

Seeded on Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:15 AM EST (Science Daily)

ScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2009) — Multidisciplinary research from the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 provides new evidence of the widespread effects of global warming in the polar regions.

global-warming, environment, science, antarctic, atmosphere, artic, sea-level, glaciers, international-polar-year

Take A Darwinian Approach To A Dangerous World: Ecologist Preaches 'Natural' Security For Homeland Defense

Seeded on Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:10 PM EST (Science Daily)

ScienceDaily (Feb. 23, 2009) — In nature, the threat level is always at least orange: Predators and plagues are an unrelenting menace to the well-being (and successful reproduction) of every living thing.

security, predators, nature, environment, science, homeland, ecology, darwinisim

Out There: Billions and Billions of Habitable Planets

Seeded on Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:55 PM EST (space.com)

There are about ten thousand billion billion habitable planets in the observable universe, and some of these Earth-like worlds could be found by a mission set to launch early next month, a leading planet-formation theorist now speculates.

space, science, planets, universe, habitable, earth-like

Solar power beamed from space within a decade?

Seeded on Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:27 AM EST (gizmag.com)

February 23, 2009 The concept of Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) has been doing the rounds for decades with fantastic claims of 24 hour a day solar power beamed from space via microwave to any point on earth.

nasa, science, electricity, earth, solar-power, space-based, space-energy

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