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 Tuesday, 21 October 2008 19:00 | | 
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We Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.
Ideas take life when they are shared, says Charles Leadbeater. That is why the web is such a potent platform for creativity and innovation.
It's also at the heart of why the web should be good for: democracy, by giving more people a voice and the ability to organise themselves; freedom, by giving more people the opportunity to be creative and equality, by allowing knowledge to be set free.
Published on Monday, 13 October 2008 19:00 | | |
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Although this looks like a computer generated image from another world it has in fact been taken from Canyonlands National Park in Utah by astrophotographer Wally Pacholka. It is a composite of four separate exposures.
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Published on Sunday, 19 October 2008 00:49 | | |
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Leading economists are convinced that the destruction of forests is losing us trillions of pounds a year and will cost us all far more than the banking crisis.
Trees perform many vital tasks, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide. We chop them down at our peril.
Published on Sunday, 19 October 2008 19:00 | |
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You've heard about people who have been abducted and had their kidneys
removed by black-market organ thieves? Well, this kind of cruel theft
is happening with other body parts as well!
My thighs were stolen from me during the night a few years ago. I went to sleep and woke up with someone else's thighs. It was just that quick. The replacements had the texture of cooked oatmeal. Whose thighs were these and what happened to mine? I spent the entire summer looking for my thighs. Finally, hurt and angry, I resigned myself to living out my life in jeans. And then the thieves struck again.
Published on Friday, 17 October 2008 19:00 | |
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Aware that many of the audience at the Lincoln Men’s Conference he
was addressing had suffered breakdowns triggered by
extreme stress in the workplace, Tom Hodgkinson was hit by the truth that our
current system of work is literally driving us crazy.
Published on Tuesday, 14 October 2008 19:00 | | |
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'Just as a spring breeze awakens tender new shoots of green, sincere
encouragement can thaw a frozen heart and instil courage. It is the
most powerful means to rejuvenate the human spirit.'
These and other words of encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Published on Thursday, 16 October 2008 19:00 | | |
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Can
psychology make people happier?
Yes! When Dr Martin Seligman stopped focusing on misery and started studying what makes us
happy, he discovered that we can train ourselves to alleviate depression and to
be more positive and optimistic.
So what can modern psychology help us become? How can we be
more engaged in life, find more meaning, get more satisfaction and laugh more? Dr Seligman tells us how.