Soul's Code

Researchers that once commercialized software to help kids overcome learning disorders have tackled an even bigger business: a homeopathic way of beating brain problems.
According to a recent story in Portfolio.com, a company called Posit Science "...hopes to develop programs that will tackle a wide array of problems previously treated with traditional medicine, ranging from traumatic [...]

Guess the heads who were passing joints in the freezing cold before class in high school behind the wall of the Machine Shop weren't so dumb, after all
Maybe *we're* dumb. A study done at the University of Saskatchewan turns Cheech & Chong pot wisdom on its head. The rat-lab experiment suggests that an ingredient in grass promotes neuron growth [...]

Still chuckling over the Pat Robertson's leg-press press flap.

Coca-Cola celebrates Ramadan (originally uploaded by ferrous).
Commercial Christendom and holy Islam cross paths in a Coke can
 

A vanguard of self-schooled female mystics are doing an end-run around the mainstream self-help and New Age movements -- and are advancing a radical, 21st century spirituality. Call it the 'Anti-Me Generation'

For two years, Byron Katie was so maniacally depressed she rarely got out of bed. A mother of two boys and a teen-aged [...]