The teaching of Vipassana meditation in a correctional facility was tried first in Jaipur, India in 1975. 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. It is now spreading throughout the world with very positive results.... posted on Aug 29 2002, 869 reads

Monks in the highlands of Tibet are able to adjust their body temperatures through meditation. The meditation process is called 'g Tum-mo'. Scientists recently, have begun to conduct experiments to explain this phenomenon.... posted on Aug 07 2002, 2,272 reads

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The Business Plan Archive collects Internet boom time business plans. It's a great example of learning from our past and our mistakes.... posted on Jul 20 2002, 1,252 reads

In the developing world, fertility rates vary in inverse proportion with literacy rates. For example, Afghanistan, with a female literacy rate of only eight percent has a fertility rate of 6.9 per 1,000 population. Thailand, in contrast, has a literacy rate of 88% and a fertility rate of 2.6/1,000. Source: United Nations... posted on Jul 16 2002, 1,237 reads

Due to 'light pollution', 20% of the world's people (66% in US) can no longer see the Milky Way. ... posted on Jul 05 2002, 1,130 reads

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Dr. Masaru Emoto, a researched in Japan, did an experiment in 1994 that now proves that thoughts affect physical matter. Through repeatable experiments, he demonstrated that human thoughts and emotions can alter the molecular structure of water. Check out his amazing pictures of the molecules when someone says "you make me sick" vs. "thank you":... posted on Jun 11 2002, 1,236 reads

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