This woman and her autistic son are heroes...seriously. Check it out. People never cease to inspire me everyday.

Quoted: HALO is a non-profit organization providing Soma® RPM, which is academic instruction leading towards communication for persons with autism. Soma Mukhopadhyay developed Rapid Prompting Method ...

Quoted: Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed ...

i wonder what it would be like to drive one of these...

Quoted: What if you could drive across the entire United States -- from East coast to West coast -- on just one tank of gas? Sounds ...

This seems pretty obvious. But I'm skeptical about the small sample size...why only 13 mothers? Also, I'd be curious to know, given a bigger sample, if there are mothers who don't display these results and what implications that might have for child-rearing. Experiments on fathers would be cool too, as the article points out. Further, I wonder if they can do similar studies on animals...how cool would that be?

Quoted: A mother’s impulse to love and protect her child appears to be hard-wired into her brain, a new imaging study shows.

cool!

Quoted: Is the universe -- correction: "our" universe -- no more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of parallel worlds?

Oh i am too familiar with the plate tectonics of Sulawesi (the K-shaped island). Did my oceanography paper on it! Man, Indonesia is just the hub of all kinds of natural disasters: earthquake, tsunami, volcano...they'll probably be hit by a monsoon next.

Quoted: Mount Soputan volcano on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sulawesi island has erupted, throwing columns of ash 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) into the air, an official said on Friday.

good to know...all in all though, in my opinion, eat what you want in moderation, exercise well, and you'll be good. i don't believe in diets.

Quoted: Don't let your diet — or stomach — be held captive by these nutrition myths.

my grandmas were certainly necessities to our families, especially in terms of productivity and child rearing...that's really interesting...i hope they conduct more studies and research to see how correct this hypothesis is.

Quoted: re grandmothers an evolutionary necessity? The contributions of older women to society have long been debated by anthropologists. In the animal world, females often don’t ...

Cool! the 2007 Space Odyssey

Quoted: A NASA spacecraft observed lightning strikes at Jupiter's poles as it provided insights into the giant planet's dynamic atmosphere as well as volcanic activity on one of its moons, scientists said on Tuesday.