After any disaster, people and resources organize without planning into coordinated, purposeful activity. Everything happens quickly and a little miraculously. These self-organized efforts create effective responses long before official relief agencies can even make it to the scene. But organizational theorists have had a hard time explaining or replicating this concept. Now, Margaret Wheatley ... posted on Jan 03 2003, 972 reads

For the first time in our history, an AIDS vaccine has been put to the final test, to see if it works. In a few weeks, we will know the outcome of AIDSVAX.... posted on Jan 02 2003, 1,244 reads

Average person in Britian walks 191 miles every year.... posted on Jan 01 2003, 1,304 reads

Princeton professors published an interesting paper on 200,000 nearly blind ants that organized themselves into a 100m long column capable of transporting 3,000 prey items per hour!... posted on Dec 31 2002, 904 reads

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Brazilian photographer Sebastio Salgado believes that an image can inform and transform; and he's travlled to five continents to show how. Fast action photography is easy these days but Salgado captures the slower, more decisive motions that produce millions of refugees in Africa, Asia and the Balkans or the millions that move to packed cities of Asia and Latin America due to lack of work ... a p... posted on Dec 28 2002, 1,188 reads

Recycling one ton of paper saves: 17 trees, 6953 gallons of water, 463 gallons of of oil, 587 pounds of air pollution, 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space, and 4077 kilowatt hours of energy. ... posted on Dec 27 2002, 1,035 reads

Po Bronson spent two years interviewing 900 people who decided to follow their hearts -- an investment banker who became a catfish farmer, an entertainment lawyer who was a truck driver, a researcher who turned into a chef, a Harvard MBA who became a police officer. In his book, "What should I do with my life?" he notes that money doesn't fund dreams, smarts don't answer the question and attitud... posted on Dec 26 2002, 794 reads

No wonder Santa Claus just seems to go on forever. According to new research out of the University of Michigan, giving can actually help you live longer.... posted on Dec 25 2002, 605 reads