Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Friday, 21 November 2008 14:05 | | 
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Like many of us I’m keen to do my bit to save the planet, writes Julia Stephenson
I precycle, recycle and cycle; I darn and dye my old clothes so I don’t have to buy new ones, I save the plastic bags newspapers are often wrapped in at the weekend and use them as sandwich bags (over and over again until they fall apart). I even get my inamorato to pee on the compost heap.
Published on Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:00 | | |
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'After deep breathing everybody starts chanting Ho-Ho,
Ha-Ha-Ha. Slowly increasing the speed of Ho-Ho, Ha-Ha-Ha they suddenly burst
into hearty laughter.'
The idea of laughter yoga came to Dr Madan Kataria, a practising physician in Mumbai, India, in March 1995, writes Geraldine Royds.
Published on Monday, 17 November 2008 19:00 | | |
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For thirteen years, astronomers have inferred only the presence of planets
circling other stars. Now, they have finally spotted them with their
own eyes.
In two papers published online today in Science, researchers report imaging four planets circling two other stars. Experts say this direct view could shed light on planet formation - and eventually even provide signs of alien life.
The three red dots orbiting the central blob are the exoplanets.
Published on Saturday, 15 November 2008 09:31 | | |
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Very, if you buy them from Marks and Spencer, who have recently opened the world’s first 100 per cent carbon neutral, 100 per cent green, 100 per cent ethical factory in Sri Lanka, living up to their claims of being the UK's most sustainable retailer.
The only problem is that these sumptuous organic undies won’t be available until January so we’ll just have to hang on to our old ones till then.
Published on Friday, 14 November 2008 19:00 | |
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Most of us experience loss at some point in our lives. Diane Southam gives some tips on grief management
Published on Thursday, 13 November 2008 19:00 | | |
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'Wikipedia is like
rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift,' says Jimmy
Wales, the founder of the Internet encyclopedia which is written and edited by
its own readers. It's self-organizing,
self-correcting and is fast becoming one of the most-used
reference tools on the planet, writes Geraldine Royds.
In 2001, Jimmy Wales, then an options trader, had a radical idea. He dared to imagine 'a world where every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge'. With the help of Larry Sanger, he set out to reinvent the encyclopedia for the Internet age - a collaborative work in many languages managed by a world wide community of volunteers and editors who contribute and review information.
'Wikipedia is non-profit. It was either the dumbest
thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did,' says Jimmy Wales, who turned
the site over to the non-profit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation, in
2003.
Published on Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:32 | | |
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A pioneer in preventative medicine, Dr Dean Ornish, Professor of Medicine at the
He founded the Preventative Medicine Research Institute, where his current research shows that changes in lifestyle affect gene expression, "turning on" disease-preventing genes and "turning off" genes that promote disease. He argues that our natural state as humans is to be happy, healthy and peaceful, with our bodies possessing a remarkable capacity to heal.