Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people's and businesses' computers get smarter.
Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That's the theory from surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School, published online in a scientific journal this week.
Has anyone went shopping lately? I shouldn't be. I ought to cram every tiny penny that comes my way into my bank and just sit on it. There are things, though, that make life easier and more fun for me. There are things I've been doing without that I'm tired of doing without.
FOR YEARS now, whenever I've been invited to lecture students on how our tax system works, I have asked a simple question: What is the purpose of the United States of America? The most common answer, be it at prestigious universities, elite prep schools, rural community colleges, …
I started writing poetry young and love is all that I wrote about.
List of ten ways that different studies have found will help make you happier.
"This is the day that the Lord has made: We will rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24
Composer of evil Destroyer of right Writer of wicked Demon delight Wandering sinner Dangerous gun Losing a winner Prodigal son Pondering prophet Gullible dream Obvious misfit No in-between Wavering shepherd Rather a sheep Ungrateful leper Withered, I weep
Defining purpose, audience, tone, and content; within interpersonal and business communications, it is applicable to say that purpose and audience are relevantly equivalent as to instructors and students communicating online or in a traditional setting.
Negativity does not build, it only destroys, but what is really destructive about it is the debilitating way it eats into any relationship and saps that partnership of its vibrancy, positivity and purpose. There are three main reasons for negativity within a relationship.
Ozzie Guillen earned himself an almost certain suspension Sunday afternoon. He told a dirty little secret.
A reporter examines some of the reasons why she meditates. Some good points are made about exploration of mind, and about the depth of benefits meditation offers, and therefore the variety of reasons we might meditate.
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Getting a healthy lifestyle depends on both mind and body and 10 very useful steps begin with the mind. They are deliberately made simple so that they can be followed with ease and without much preparation:
It's that old problem again, the one about dying in vain. We all die, most of us die in vain. By dying we do nothing but prove the inevitability of death, a fact so mundane that it doesn't need to be proven, so mundane we don't even need to be reminded.
God has no desire to change our outward behavior; He only wants to change our life. His one intention is to replace our old life with a new one. He can only accomplish this in Christ Jesus. When we are in Christ, this work of replacement is automatically applied to us.
A response to Peter Bowden's "God, Atheism, and Human Needs" Kelly O'Connor Jan. 24, 2008
We have no other choice. People go after unlimited desires simply because it is programmed within them to do so. Desires are essential to our development, our ability to create, to innovate and to grow. They are the key to our existence.
Though I am all the way in the UK, across the Pond, I have watched Barack's progress with fascination and awe at the sheer possibilities.
On September 5, 2007 at 1:20pm I was having a leisurely conversation with my cousin while we were driving back to Long Island from Upstate New York.
We talk about happiness every day of our lives in our elusive search for it. We see happiness as something external we can just pluck out of nowhere when we want it, just call it up when we want to have a better day. Moreover, happiness seems to affect everyone else except us.
What is the purpose of the universe, anyway? I hadn't started reading the Sunday papers with this question in mind, but after slogging through mass rapes in Congo, bombings in Baghdad and K-Fed's worthiness as a father, I could no longer dodge it.
How often have you heard a manager complain that communication is not effective because no one seems to be taking any notice of the memos or directives? Well, we are always tempted to believe that there is ineffective communication within some organisations but replace one of the …
With a change in my circumstances and recent problems in my life, I have been trying to define success and what it really means to each of us and I think I have worked out its foundations.
Would we be trying to save the world if we really understood what our lives are for? Perhaps if we aim ourselves at discovering the meaning of life, this would reveal how exactly we can save the world? These questions are encountered in response to the "Live Earth" human unit …
In response to the live event "Live Earth," a celebration of human unity, Rav Michael Laitman, PhD wrote this article stating that common human unity can only be achieved after we find out why humans exist.