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Viruses Can Be Used to Create Batteries
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5 Ways Stress Can Help Your Health
18 Nov 2009 | 7:35 pmAccording to new research, stress brought on by day-to-day events can actually help your health, and may even extend your life. -
Colombia Uses Television Ads to Convince Guerrilla Fighters to Surrender
17 Nov 2009 | 7:09 pmAn ad agency in Colombia has created pro bono TV commercials in an effort to convince guerrilla rebels to disband—and it seems to be working. -
Six Ways to Make This Thanksgiving an Unforgettable Celebration
16 Nov 2009 | 8:04 pmThanksgiving's built on tradition—but if you'd like to make the holiday a little more memorable, here are some great ways to spice it up. -
Language-Learning Begins Before Birth
12 Nov 2009 | 7:01 pmAccording to a new study, a newborn baby's very first cry has the accent of his mother's language.
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LATimesgoodnews: Smile! RT @SpontaneSmiley Come see my 1st gallery exhibit of Smiley photos [in Berkeley] http://j.mp/1bHz9f #goodnews #photography #smile
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LATimesgoodnews: RT @KooDooZ: #Teens from Jordan & US combat climate change via a 2-way digital video conferencing dialogue http://j.mp/4r9oWI (HT @rjenbarr)
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Giving up Black Friday this Year
20 Nov 2009 | 6:38 amYes, it’s true. The Christmas songs are already playing on the radio, decorations are dangling and the bombardment has begun, with one prominent message: BUY BUY BUY! This time of year can be one of the most stressful time for many of us. Maybe it’s time to give it a break and rethink the holidays - especially during a trying economy. Why not RESPECT your limited finances and think outside the media box that convinces us that we must buy until we’re literally and metaphorically “maxed out.” A friend of mine has vowed to bake all of her holiday presents this year. -
Positive Quote Wednesday - Get your Shine On
18 Nov 2009 | 7:31 am“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours” ~ Swedish Proverb quotes “The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” “You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” ~Ralph Marston “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both… -
Words Of Wisdom From A 97-Year-Old Doctor
17 Nov 2009 | 5:14 amAt the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world’s longest-serving physicians and educators. Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke’s College of Nursing. He also serves as chairman of the board of trustees at both organizations. Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot. We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It’s best not to tire the body with too many… -
The Singapore Kindness Movement
16 Nov 2009 | 10:02 amIn his 1996 New Year Message, then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong highlighted the need for Singapore to become a gracious society by the 21st century. Considerate social behaviour supported by a strong economy and good government will make Singapore the best home for its people. In line with Mr. Goh’s call to build a gracious society, the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) aims to encourage Singaporeans to make a positive commitment to gracious living through simple acts of kindness in their daily activities. Interview with Dr Giorgio Aiassa from the Italian Kindness Movement in… -
Girl Saves Lobster from Steamy, Buttery Death
13 Nov 2009 | 11:20 amThis is an older positive news story but bears repeating: The giant lobster caught 100 miles off the Massachusetts coast spent last month in the lobster tank at Angelica’s Restaurant in Bethlehem. He recently was returned to the water, just off the southern tip of West Island, five miles from New Bedford, Mass. Fred Cunha, the restaurant owner, bought the 37-inch Monstro with his 15-inch-long claws from a New Bedford fishing boat in mid-October. Cunha estimates Monstro is 50 years old. Fifteen-pound lobsters are rare anywhere, but especially in the North Country. Half the customers who…
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Award Winners Changing the World Through Tech
20 Nov 2009 | 5:27 amThe Tech Awards is an international program honoring innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. This year's winners received their awards at a Gala yesterday in San Jose, CA. The 2009 Tech Awards Laureates represent regions as diverse as Nigeria, Brazil, Great Britain, the United States and Bangladesh. And their work impacts people in many more countries worldwide. 15 innovators were honored for projects that address global issues on the environment, ... -
New Evidence that Dark Chocolate Helps Ease Emotional Stress
20 Nov 2009 | 4:41 amThe "chocolate cure" for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published online in the Journal of Proteome Research. It found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people feeling highly stressed. Everyone's favorite treat also partially corrected other stress-related biochemical imbalances. Beneficial substances in dark chocolate may also reduce risk factors for heart disease and o ... -
Cow dung to Power More Dutch Homes
20 Nov 2009 | 4:32 amA plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands last week. Manure from cows at a nearby dairy farm will be fermented along with grass and food industry residues, and the biogas released during the process will be used as fuel to heat around 1,100 homes. (Read the short article in Reuters) ... -
Good Economic News: GM to Repay Loans Early
20 Nov 2009 | 2:24 amGeneral Motors Co. is expected to fully repay its $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by 2011, four years earlier than required. The auto manufacturer reported the news Monday after announcing recent sales exceeded expectations and costs came in lower than expected. Under the plan, the automaker said it will begin paying the U.S. Treasury Department $1 billion each quarter, beginning at the end of December. (Read more at NPR) (Photo credit: imelenchon) ... -
Good News on this day in History, November 20
19 Nov 2009 | 8:00 pm2 journalists (Henri Desgrange and Géo Lefèvre) dreamed up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Café de Madrid in Paris (1902) Ukraine is declared a republic (1917) The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, when President John F. Kennedy halted the U.S. quarantine of the island (1962) President Nixon halted residential use of DDT as part of a total phase-out in US (1969) Hopes for democrac ...
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Re-start for ‘Big Bang’ machine
20 Nov 2009 | 9:27 pmThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has been re-started after a hiatus of 14 months. -
Tiny chip could diagnose disease
20 Nov 2009 | 2:11 amResearchers have demonstrated a tiny chip based on silicon that could be used to diagnose dozens of diseases. -
Breast ‘regrowth’ trial planned
14 Nov 2009 | 7:35 pmResearchers in Australia plan to test a medical "scaffold" designed to stimulate natural breast tissue to regrow following surgery. -
Macedonia in Massive Reforestation Effort
13 Nov 2009 | 12:50 pmThousands of Macedonians including local athletes, pop stars, actors and politicians joined forces Friday to plant trees all over the country. -
Brown pelican no longer endangered: U.S.
13 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pmThe brown pelican, listed as an endangered species even before the 1973 U.S. Endangered Species Act existed, is officially back from the brink of extinction, the Interior Department said on Wednesday.
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If You Have Kids In Your Life, Here's a Huge Resource
The number of kids who have lost a parent or sibling is astonishing. Kate Atwood knows. She was one of them. She lost her mom at the age of 12, as a young adult she vowed to create a different experience for kids who experience loss. She's done that by creating the remarkable Kate's Club and now a book that is a resource for those of us who love kids and want to support them during a difficult time. -
Crying Baby Calms Down For Fleetwood Mac
Today's featured "story" really doesn't have that much to it, truth be told. But it does speak to the magic something we wish we all had that could calm us down in a moment of angst. Get ready to smile at one cute baby. -
Two Love Stories With A Twist
I have a couple great love stories for you today. Hear about the jilted bride who did something wonderful with what was supposed to be her wedding reception. And how about the amazing sanitation workers who dug through 10 tons of trash to find a lost wedding ring! -
Singer Tim McGraw Sings Badly--All For A Good Cause
Of course, you know country singer Tim McGraw makes millions of dollars by singing well. But did you know he loves to give shows where he might sing very badly, as well? It's all about raising money near and dear to his heart. -
Teacher Hand Writes Personal Birthday Greetings
This is one of the best stories I've come along in awhile. And you know I come across some great ones! Teacher Dan Stroup takes the time to hand write a personal birthday greeting to each of the more than 2500 students he has ever had in his classroom. You want to remember what it feels like to know someone thinks you're special? You have to see this wonderful story.
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Oceans’ Ability To Absorb CO2 May Be Diminishing, New Study Says
20 Nov 2009 | 12:02 pmYale Environment 360: A study of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans from 1765 to the present shows that as humanity pumps more CO2 into... -
Seattle as North America's First Carbon-Neutral City
20 Nov 2009 | 11:01 amAlex Steffen: Last week, I stood on the stage at Seattle's Town Hall and called on Seattle to become North America's first carbon-neutral city, dropping its per... -
Companies Increase Commitment To Tackling Climate Issues, Report Says
20 Nov 2009 | 10:58 amYale Environment 360: Major corporations in the U.S. have shown an increased willingness to voluntarily reduce their impact on climate change despite a sluggish economy, according to... -
A Womb of One's Own
20 Nov 2009 | 10:31 amWorldChanging Team: by Anna Fahey The womb is not free of toxic pollution. This week, the Washington Toxics Coalition released a study that should raise the ire... -
How Carbon Markets Work in Europe
20 Nov 2009 | 10:28 amWorldChanging Team: by Eric de Place In spite of what you may have heard, Europe's carbon market is working beautifully. The EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)...
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Real family values
28 Oct 2009 | 4:00 pmHow suppressed emotions cut us off from loved ones and ourselves. Photograph: David Servan-Schreiber Tom had a successful career... in the mafia. He'd been a millionaire, able to have any woman he wanted, and rubbed shoulders with influential people. Yet when he came to see me after a lifetime of alcohol, drugs and crime, he was like a lost child who needed direction. To "succeed" in his world, he'd had to learn to block his emotions, and didn't know who he was any more. Tom told me about the time he was a new recruit and he'd agreed, for a substantial sum, to cut his best friend's ear off… -
Tales of the credit crunch
19 Oct 2009 | 11:04 amFilmmaker Johan Kramer finds inspiration in the financial crisis. Photograph: Wouter Westendorp A Japanese woman walks two dogs along a winding path in a well-groomed park. The dogs sniff around the bushes as the woman walks patiently behind, plastic bags in hand, ready to clean up after them. This scene is from The Crisis and Us, the new film from Dutch film director Johan Kramer (photo), who previously gained international acclaim with The Other Final, about a soccer match between Bhutan and Montserrat, the two lowest-ranked teams at the time, and Sing for Darfur, about the tragedy in… -
A good kind of group think builds sustainable small businesses
30 Sep 2009 | 10:35 amErnesto Sirolli taps into the collective genius of communities. Sirolli says the businesses he’s helped build have an 80 percent success rate.Photograph: Sirolli Institute If you happen to ride your bicycle to Ernesto Sirolli's Sacramento, California, residence, as I did, your effort won't go unrewarded. When he opens the garage door, you'll be treated to a glimpse of his prized possession, a white 1951 Morgan Roadster. The Morgan Company, he'll quickly and enthusiastically tell you, is a family-owned business in England founded by H.F.S. Morgan that this year celebrates its 100th… -
Open Medicine provides medical knowledge to the public
29 Sep 2009 | 9:31 amPalepu believes medical publishing should be free from corporate influence.Photograph: Eugene Lin Anita Palepu was an associate editor at the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 2006 when the publisher fired two editors in a conflict over editorial independence. Angry at what she felt was a move to allow advertisers to dictate what appeared in the journal, Palepu and some other colleagues resigned. But she says cheerfully, "Instead of being outraged, I'm doing something about it." Within a year, Palepu became co-founder and co-editor of Open Medicine, a free, independent online quarterly… -
Vitamin Angels combats malnutrition with nutritional supplements
28 Sep 2009 | 9:40 amHow giving every child basic nutrition may provide a starting point for tackling Africa's other challenges. At Alupe Hospital in Busia, Kenya, pregnant women take supplements to increase their chances of having healthy babies.Photograph: Matt Dayka Touching down in Eldoret, a rural town about 185 miles (300 kilometers) from Nairobi near the Ugandan border in western Kenya, everything seemed calm and peaceful. The countryside is lush; indeed, most of the residents are farmers, growing wheat, coffee and tea as well as rearing dairy cattle. Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the airport and…
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Being the change I wished to see
18 Nov 2009 | 7:55 amBy: dderella In May 2009 my six-figure real estate job came to end, and I knew I had to embrace the change like so many others. My husband and I had been sitting on a trademark intellectual property for several years. We wondered, "if not now, then when?" I believe that all changes happens for the greater good of the soul. We decided to fully commit to developing Be the Light, Be the One™, a social brand and online presence that educates, inspires and supports personal health and global transformation. We strive to create new possibilities for ecological sustainability, social justice and a… -
Essential questions for loving relationships
17 Nov 2009 | 9:51 amBy: lexsisney Have you ever noticed how the work week tends to build up a dust of separation and isolation between you and your significant other? You’re doing your thing. Your partner is doing their thing. You’re both busy, doing your best to juggle the demands of work, home, family, kids, money, carpools, workouts, homework, meals, cleaning…basically managing the constant demands of modern living. You already know from experience that it’s so easy to fall into the trap of living together and “missing” each other at the same time. If you’re not careful, this dust of separation… -
Your personal parenting expert is within you
16 Nov 2009 | 3:27 pmBy: joyfulparent "Every stage in a child's life is there for a purpose. If we can respect and respond to her needs fully during each stage of her life, she can be done with that stage and move on." —Naomi Aldort There is a certain show with a certain nanny who is British (or is she?) that makes me very angry to even think about. I have only watched it a few times. I always have to turn it off because I end up yelling at the television! She is so far off base when it comes to having a loving, authentic relationship with your child. I feel sad that some parents buy into her advice. I have… -
Wanting peace
16 Nov 2009 | 2:49 pmBy: PeaceCorso Many years ago, when I first began the study of meaning, I struggled deeply with prosperity issues. You have to understand how I learned about money. When I was 28, I walked into my apartment one night in tears. My dear, blessed roommate asked me what was wrong. I wailed, “I bounced a check.” She asked me if I’d balanced my checkbook. My tears stopped momentarily and I asked, “What’s that?” “Haven’t you ever turned your bank statement over?” Her eyes were about to fall out of her head. I didn’t know there was anything on the back of a bank statement. A… -
The Underground Railroad to Success
16 Nov 2009 | 8:16 amBy: leaho Investing In Women (IIW) has awarded a $500 “stimulus package” to a female-owned business, The Underground Railroad To Success (URS). URS was started by Tanisha Cunningham in 2009 and helps foster care children prepare for adult life. Growing up in foster care herself, Cunningham saw the need for additional support, especially when children are no longer eligible for state run services. Soon after her foster care ended she began a career in child welfare, “I wanted to stay there because my passion had always been to give back, because I knew the struggles of living in foster…
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Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO
20 Nov 2009 | 1:05 pmAn IPO filing for the electric-car start-up is expected any day, according to sources. Public offering would be the first from a U.S. automaker since Ford Motor shares debuted in 1956. -
What drives China? Soon, cleaner fuel
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Will consumers plug into home energy displays?
20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 amDozens of companies are developing tools to ratchet down home energy use as part of utility smart grid programs, but nobody is sure which approach will stick with consumers. -
Al Gore: Our next power grid will be like the Net
19 Nov 2009 | 7:11 pmThe former vice president takes the stage at VentureBeat's GreenBeat conference in San Mateo, Calif. to discuss some of the challenges ahead for moving to the smart grid. Originally posted at Web Crawler -
Recycling e-waste: Who should pay?
19 Nov 2009 | 11:09 amStudy finds consumers love the idea of recycling to combat e-waste, but they don't want to foot the bill.

