The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism

From one of the comments posted at the bottom of the article: "Best Education Piece of Online Activism : This one post has put together a bunch of the best examples of online hacktivism and activism I have ever seen!...

Get Healthy: Your Middle-Aged Heart Will Thank You

A common-sense study with the expected common-sense results: "King and his colleagues evaluated almost 16,000 men and women who were between the ages of 45 and 64 when the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study...

Asphalt Could Go Green

It turns out that the pavement is greener on the other side of the world. Here's an article about cold-mix asphalt - something that has been used extensively for some time in South Africa and may some day be used in...

A Protestant town's 'conspiracy of good' in Vichy France

The Christian Scient Monitor has posted an interesting article telling the story of the people in a small town in France. They never lost sight of the humanity of their neighbors:"'Weapons of the spirit'Trocme gave...

Home Brew for the Car, Not the Beer Cup

The high price of fuel is opening the door to opportunities that we've been unable to exploit in the past. Soon we will see a revolution in the sources and availability of fuels and electricity. At first the costs...

Sleep more to slim down, scientists say

Over the past many years there has been a steady stream of research that has concluded, over and over again, that lots of things go wrong when we don't get enough sleep. Here's a fact that many people don't know: The...