'Shock of consciousness' sweeps China in wake of temblor

In a country with no tradition of private philanthropy or community activism, the Sichuan earthquake has given birth to a remarkable development: a grassroots volunteer movement on a massive scale.

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DavidByrne.com - Art - Playing the Building

Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument.

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New Search Engine Takes on Google

The public will get its first chance Monday to test a search engine from start-up Powerset that eschews conventional keyword technology and instead is designed to understand the meaning of Web pages.

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Nepal arrests 560 Tibetan women

Nepalese police have arrested some 560 Tibetan women, including many Buddhist nuns, after breaking up demonstrations against China's crackdown in Tibet. In the first example of all-women protests, three rallies in Kathmandu were quickly stopped by police. It was the biggest rou …

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BBC NEWS | Business | Rice prices rise for a fifth day

Global rice prices have soared for a fifth successive day as the cyclone damage in Burma continues to put pressure on tight supplies. The cost of rice rose by 3.5% to $22.35 per 100lb in early Thursday electronic trading on the Chicago Board of Trade, adding to similar rises in  …

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Computer Game's High Score Could Earn The Nobel Prize In Medicine

A new game, named Foldit, turns protein folding into a competitive sport.

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Myanmar seizes U.N. food delieveries

The two shipments, 38 tonnes of high-energy biscuits, were enough to feed 95,000 people -- a tiny fraction of the estimated 1.5 million destitute survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which ripped into the southeast Asian nation six days ago.

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Burma impounds UN aid deliveries

The World Food Programme has halted aid shipments to Burma after the contents of its first delivery were impounded on arrival in the military-ruled country. The UN body says the Burmese government seized aid material flown in to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, which has killed t …

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BBC NEWS | UK | Food waste on 'staggering' scale

People are needlessly throwing away 3.6m tonnes of food each year in England and Wales, research suggests. The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) found that salad, fruit and bread were most commonly wasted and 60% of all dumped food was untouched.

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Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

The world's data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020, according to a new study by McKinsey & Co.

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Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet - Yahoo! News

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Mind's Limit Found: 4 Things at Once - Yahoo! News

I forget how I wanted to begin this story. That's probably because my mind, just like everyone else's, can only remember a few things at a time.

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Scientists make music into mathematical shapes

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The real Good Life: An entire English village turns against supermarkets and grows its own food

In a bid to become less dependent on supermarkets, the residents of Martin are working together to become as self-sufficient as possible.

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Kids Using Yoga to Help Prepare for State Math Exam - NewsChannel 9 WSYR

A new test-stress philosophy: yoga. Deep breathing exercises, like "The Volcano" and "The Twist and Blow", help young students from Onondaga Central School District in New York release anger and stress before exams.

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