Monsanto Investor Bill Gates Says GMO Crops Needed to Fight Starvation
28 January 2012

By Anthony Gucciardi Bill Gates, the heavy Monsanto investor who purchased 500,000 shares of the biotech giant in 2010, has been touting Monsanto’s genetically modified creations as a tool that is necessary to prevent starvation in poor nations. The [...]

Thousands wage war against ACTAck on Internet
28 January 2012

Poland is facing a new day of protests against a copyright agreement signed by Warsaw on Thursday. Opponents are staging demos and hacker attacks and say the ACTA treaty amounts to Internet censorship and [...]

Openhand: 5 Gateways (movie)
28 January 2012

The world is undergoing a very turbulent evolutionary process. As the very fabric of our society crumbles, a new paradigm is unfolding all around us founded on unconditional love, joy and mutual respect for [...]

Freedom of man
28 January 2012

By Welinton dos Santos, Economist and Lecturer  This is a time of great reflection on our values, attention to our attitudes, actions and thoughts, remembering our loved ones, nature and the world. Many of [...]

Confessions of a Lukewarmist
28 January 2012

By Rady Ananda Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published a letter from 16 distinguished scientists addressed to political candidates entitled, No Need to Panic About Global Warming. “Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of [...]

Freedom fears over Twitter’s by-country ‘censorship’
28 January 2012

Micro-blogging service Twitter has announced that it will filter tweets on a country-by-country basis due to differing legal demands. Critics were quick to accuse the company of attacking freedom of online speech to make [...]

Benefits of Meditation: Evolution On-Demand
27 January 2012

By Steven and Michael Meloan The driving force behind evolution is adaptation toward survival. That organizing principle has enabled life from bacteria to Homo Sapiens to thrive. But we have reached a new phase [...]

The Dangerous Truth Behind Microwaves
27 January 2012

By Mike Barrett America’s most convenient appliance – microwave ovens seem to be an absolute necessity in today’s fast-paced world. They are currently present in at least 90% of homes in America thanks to their ability to [...]