The small-world effect says that any two people on the planet are connected by a chain of at most six acquaintances. Now mathematicians know why. ... posted on Jan 07 2003, 1,032 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, 909 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, 1,080 reads

If the 4.6 billion-year evolution of our planet were conceived of as a single day, the 40,000 years of human existence would take up the last two seconds. (Source: Discovery- Sci-Trek)... posted on Dec 24 2002, 2,070 reads

American trash haulers estimate that they dispose of 1.6 million tons of food every year between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. (Source: Youthnoise)... posted on Dec 15 2002, 2,009 reads

A fairly typical middle-class American family of five uses resources at a rate that would require 4.8 planet Earths to sustain for all of the Earth's inhabitants. (Source: EarthDay)... posted on Dec 05 2002, 1,015 reads

If each commuting car carried just one more person, we'd save more than 18 million gallons of gasoline and keep more than 360 million pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere... every day. Source: DHEC Office of Solid Waste Reduction & Recycling... posted on Dec 03 2002, 970 reads

The teaching of Vipassana meditation in a correctional facility was tried first in Jaipur, India in 1975. Following that, in 1994, the first 10-day meditation course was taught in India's biggest prison, the Tihar jail in the capital New Delhi, house to about 10,000 inmates. ... posted on Nov 22 2002, 2,021 reads

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Cambodian workmen have unearthed 27 solid gold Buddha statuettes, buried for hundreds of years beneath the foundations of a ruined pagoda hidden deep in the jungle. ... posted on Sep 14 2002, 1,087 reads