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 Saturday, 17 May 2008 02:56 | | 
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Juls White has an earth-moving moment in Mexico
She was serving cocktails at Chico’s in downtown Mexico City. I was leaning against the bar, chewing on a chilli, reflecting on how bored I was in my loveless marriage and career in dentistry. With the kids away at college doing their own stuff, this was the first real holiday I’d had on my own.
Published on Monday, 21 April 2008 19:00 | | |
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We live in a wonderfully complex universe, and we are curious about it by nature. Time and again we have wondered - why are we here? Where did we and the world come from? What is the world made of?
Published on Tuesday, 25 March 2008 19:00 | | |
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Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture on 18 September 2007 to a packed auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University
'Almost all of us have childhood dreams,' he says, 'for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don't achieve theirs, and I think that's a shame.'
Published on Thursday, 08 May 2008 19:00 | |
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Ruth Altbeker Cyprys was deported to the Polish extermination camp, Treblinka, with her 2-year-old daughter. She tells the extraordinary story of her escape from the fast-moving cattle truck and subsequent fight to survive in Nazi occupied Poland in A Jump for Life.
Review by Alex Canfor-Dumas
The Warsaw Ghetto was a place of unbelievable suffering. Established in Poland’s capital during the German Occupation in the Second World War, it housed 440.000 people in an area of less than three square miles.
Published on Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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Does the new breed of 'superfoods' only come from exotic, faraway lands?
Louise Ellis investigates
Nutrient packed superfoods are the new buzzword for anyone looking to get that bit healthier. Whether it is the supermarket chains slinging a few whole grains from South America into a salad, or drinks manufacturers adding exotic sounding berries from Tibet into a carton of juice, it seems that everyone is clamouring to get on the superfoods bandwagon.
Published on Monday, 14 April 2008 19:00 | | |
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If the universe started with the Big Bang, what was the 'nothing' that existed before it? Can you get 'something from nothing'? Is that what thought is? Does quantum theory hold the key? Does your head hurt just thinking about this stuff...?
A short film by Nic Askew
Published on Sunday, 11 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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Take one roof, a ball - and several awesomely talented young men...