It all started when Macmillan was staying with the Hamar Tribe in South Omo, on the Ethiopian border with Kenya. According to Macmillan, the Hamar are possibly the most marginalized people on earth and truly desire for their children to be educated, not to mention…
Symbolizing the “building of the dream” – one of the key themes of Nanjing 2014 – a gravity- defying human tower reached into the sky, before the acrobats, all suspended on wires, broke into an beautifully choreographed mid-air ballet.
One day a letter arrived for Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu. The letter included medical documents and a sincere message from a younger girl who claimed to be her sister. With the proof in her hands, Moceanu called her parents immediately to confirm if Jennifer Bricker…
Millennials (2014 Survey in US) have identified “Making A Difference” as their #1 need in their life after graduating college. The youth of today don’t have time for never-ending causes. They are a generation raised on 140 characters or less, a generation whose concentration spans…
The Ferguson Riots have been all over the news lately. With so much attention on the tragic circumstances of this protest, people are quickly swept up in the call to action. When a race-driven conflict arises, especially with police misconduct on the table, people react….
There is a groundswell, literally, calling our attention to the soil as a solution to so many of the global challenges that we face. The UN has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils, and many other institutions are united in this as the solution…
“Greetings… We Are From the Future. In the future promoting entropy is the cardinal crime. Entropy is the probability that everything will devolve … into chaos. Kingdoms will burn. Empires will collapse. Worlds will be destroyed. What was once beautiful, vibrant, immaculately organized will be…
Bhakti Fest is back this year with so much in store. Coming to Joshua Tree, CA – July 16, 2014, the first and only family run devotional music festival in the West, will be held at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center September 4-7th. Referred to…
The FingerReader, developed by researchers at MIT, is a wearable device that gives the blind the ability to read in real time. The device works by allowing blind people to move their fingers over words on a page, while the device reads the text back…
Tsuglag Rinpoche, leader of the Buddhist extremist group Kammaṭṭhāna, threatened to soon inflict a wave of peace and tranquility on the West. Speaking in front of a nondescript altar surrounded by candles, burning sticks of incense, and a small golden statue of the Buddha, Rinpoche…
