163 Years Ago, A Former Slave Rocked The World With These Words

Actress Alfre Woodard performs a very moving piece from abolitionist, women’s rights proponent, and former slave Sojourner Truth that was originally delivered in 1851...

Pride and prejudice

SPEAKING at Lithuania’s gay-pride parade last year, Birgitta Ohlsson was pelted with eggs. Even so, the mood was much better than at the inaugural event three years e...

Shilpa Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Sonakshi Sinha contribute to Raavi's charity work

Child actress Rimmi Srivastav, seen in the title role in TV show “Raavi”, inspired Bollywood celebrities like Shilpa Shetty and Arshad Warsi to support her init...

Great balls of lightning! Bizarre glow that has eluded scientists for centuries is captured on video for the first time

It has been mistaken for UFOs, wrecked havoc on homes and eluded rational explanation for centuries.

But now ball lightning, a large, mysterious glow that appears d...

Climate Change’s New Menace: Mountain Tsunamis

Last summer more than 6,000 died after glacial melt cascaded through valleys in northern India. Scientists expect such disasters to become more common. Climate change is pa...

Climate change rattles mental health of Inuit in Labrador

Researchers studying the mental health and well-being of Inuit populations in coastal Labrador say rising temperatures are having damaging psychological effects on people i...

Garry Lyons – Writing For Society

No one can see beyond the horizon of their own lives. We are threads in the great tapestry of time. Have faith. Every stitch has a reason – Anon

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Ear Tubes May Not Have Long-Term Benefits for Kids With Ear Infections

FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2014 (Health Day News) — Ear tubes can improve hearing over the short term in children with a certain type of ear infection. But they don’t hel...

Despite Bitter Cold Weekend in US, Climate Models Indicate Global Warming is Intensifying

The Australian based Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science has released a new study arguing that climate models have underestimated the extent to which the doubli...