Rational Understanding of Human Nature

There are people who believe human nature to be any number of things, ranging from economic self-interest to collective action for benefit of humanity to supporting life on earth. To have a rightful understanding of what it is that one serves one needs to have a full picture...

prime values

Values that relate to human civilization: long-term benefit, sustainable, power to do good, practical, balance, holism, adaptable,.. Values that relate to work/play: inspiration, intuition, cooperation, collaboration, elegance, enthusiasm, learning, improving, mental agility,...

Former Soccer Player Helps Get U.S. Homeless Off The Streets

Former Soccer Player Helps Get U.S. Homeless Off Streets-By Sean Maroney Washington20 August 2008Source Provided By:http://www.voanews.com/english/portal.cfmThe United Nations estimates that more than 100 million...

'Intelligent' computers put to the [Turing] test

Comedian/Game Show Host Jeff Foxworthy wants to know if you're smarter than a 5th grader, but are you smarter than a computer? October 12, humans and 6 AI will face off to see if the programs can fool human judges into not being able to tell them apart from human beings. Ray...

Police: Gunman kills self after standoff in bank

"WHEATON, Illinois (AP) -- A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said. ...

Woman shoots self in head with Police Officer's Gun in South Carolina Hospital

Columbia, SC -  A very sad incident occurred last night in the Palmetto State.  A woman removed a gun from a Department of Corrections officer and shot herself in the head.  The police were at Palmetto Health Hospital in Columbia with an inmate who needed...

FEMA refuses to help local PBS affiliate rebuild

"On the air, WYES-Channel 12 looks fine. Everywhere else, the local PBS affiliate's headquarters near City Park, devastated by 5 feet of Hurricane Katrina levee-failure floodwaters, remains a literal shell of...

3-Year-Old Tried To Save Self From Heat

IMHO, this woman deserves the death penalty, by dying in the same manner as her son."HOUSTON -- A 3-year-old boy who died when he was left inside a pickup truck tried to save himself from the sweltering heat, detectives told KPRC Local 2."The child was aware," said Lt. John...

Man Kills Self After Shooting Three, Lighting Ex-Girlfriend On Fire

This is the town I went to high school in, and it's 60 miles south of where I just moved from. I knew Patricia Haggard."REDDING, Calif. -- A 63-year-old man is dead after shooting three people, one fatally, burning his estranged girlfriend and then shooting himself with a...

Checking breasts for lumps does not reduce deaths from cancer

Women have been told to be breast aware but now research seems to show that those that do are no safer from cancer than those that don't. Many women it is thought will still choose to self-examine and report...

Faces of Bali - Goa Gajah

"Located in a steep valley just outside of Ubud near the town of Bedulu. Built at least 700 years ago, the cave was rediscovered in the 1920s and fully excavated 30 years later. Literally means ‘Elephant...

Internet backlash forces Japan to shelve plans to send relief planes to China

The troubled historical relationship between China and Japan appears to be preventing Japan from sending aid to China for earthquake relief efforts."A frenzied cyberspace backlash on China’s notoriously active...

Dumb Criminals Part 23: Burglary Suspect Nearly Cooks Self

A ciminal attempting to break into a pharmacy via the vent system ended up over the grill in the Mandarin resturant next door. Unfortunately for him, he trapped himself over the hot oil section of the grill.

'Mother' held in Shannon inquiry

"Police probing the alleged abduction of Shannon Matthews have arrested a woman in West Yorkshire on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. There are unconfirmed reports that the 32-year-old is Shannon's...

Harie Jaoa Apon Jon

"This song has a very sorrowful history. On June 8, 2002, there was a gunfight between two groups in our university and a girl named Sabekun nahar Sony, 3rd year student of the Chemical engineering department, was killed in the cross fire. It was a terrible ...

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