I have a friend who for over 30 years has traveled the world getting well known people to sign a "declaration of human unity".

Noozit borrows good ideas and breaks the mold, too.

the story of my relationship to computers is a short one. this is undoubtedly (perhaps even indubitably) due to the fact that i have only recently become fully acquainted with them (and by "recently," i mean since coming to college--so about 3 years)...

My first computer wasn’t really my computer, it actually belonged to my sister. My uncle worked at some computer company and got one of their old ones for my sister to use...

With science fiction inspired towers and commercials spanning across the entirety of 30ft tall spherical buildings, Shanghai appears to be the almost realized rendition of Ridley Scott's setting for Blade Runner. Shanghai Night Scene Yet underneath the glitzy neon lights and futuristic buildings lies living conditions that contradict the seemingly more advanced cityscape exterior...

A CRONE’S TALE FOR WINTER SOLSTICE Once upon a time, my children …as all stories begin the Wheel of the Year kept turning: moving out…moving in… There was day, when the sun traveled across the sky, there was night, when stars twinkled and the coyote cried. In the day we worked hard, we ploughed our soil deep, when night came, we told stories, made love and went to sleep...

Interesting hands from world-class players

To know is to bring light to a situation; to enlighten; to understand; to make visible. There are many ways to bring the light of knowledge to bear on something.

Found time to watch a few more hands in the open (formerly Men's) LM pairs final. The auction started with a rather unsound weak opening, and ended in a sound contract...

After two passes and the dreaded multi 2 diamonds, I didn't have enough for a 2NT bid, but since LHO was a passed hand and the vulnerability was favorable, I felt that was more representative than the classic double with a balanced 13-15. West led the and switched to the unreadable low spade...

Interesting hand from the 2007 transnational teams.

It has been 6 years this month since my father passed away. I do miss him...

Saying "I'm addicted to sugar" isn't a joke -- a lot of people really are.

Good Calories, Bad Calories is a new book by science writer Gary Taubes. It is an impressive review of the science and the politics behind our ideas about good nutrition and healthy diets...

Freeways ought to move quickly -- everyone gets on them during "rush hour". "Rush hour" could be renamed "running like snails" hour.

Count the stars from your backyard!

Don't let ideal music or ideal spiritual figures stop you from playing music or working toward spiritual happiness.

One of San Francisco's hip-hop radio stations is really going in a new direction in terms of the music it plays. I have been listening to this particular "station" ever since elementary school when it was 107.7 FM...

more money = better education opportunities.

I have always been a big fan of C. S...