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Changes for the Templeton Foundation
February 25, 2011 – 2:36 pm | 2 Comments
Changes for the Templeton Foundation

The Templeton Foundation has been radically reframing its research program. As part of that effort, it is reducing its emphasis on religion to make its programs more palatable to the broader scientific community.

An (Unsensationalized) View of the News from Dharmasala
February 4, 2011 – 2:17 pm | No Comment
An (Unsensationalized) View of the News from Dharmasala

An informed report on the seizing of $1.5 million dollars from the Karmapa’s monastery and the media frenzy that has followed.

What Happens When You (Almost) Die?
January 18, 2011 – 3:19 pm | 18 Comments
What Happens When You (Almost) Die?

As more Near death experiences come to light, researchers are identifying patterns that transcend differences based on age, culture, and religious (or nonreligious) backgrounds.

Villagers Battle Yamuna Pollution
January 15, 2011 – 12:14 am | No Comment
Villagers Battle Yamuna Pollution

Hundreds of villagers from Rajpura, a few kilometres upstream of Vrindavan in Mathura district, on Sunday pledged support to the campaign to save the Yamuna river from pollution and make its water potable.

The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method
January 10, 2011 – 1:59 am | 20 Comments
The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method

Is the “decline effect,” the phenomenon that seems to defy statistics, undermining the scientific method as we know it?

The Passing of Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja
December 29, 2010 – 12:15 am | 6 Comments
The Passing of Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja

On Sri Krishna Navami Tithi, December 29, 2010, Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja passes from this world.

On Food Waste in America
December 11, 2010 – 12:37 am | No Comment
On Food Waste in America

Farms, supermarkets, the food-service industry and government all play a role. All told, America is one gargantuan waste machine, trashing between a quarter and a half of the 590 billion pounds of food grown and raised here yearly.

Newfound Bacterium Sheds New Light on Life
December 3, 2010 – 1:03 am | 4 Comments
Newfound Bacterium Sheds New Light on Life

A bacterium that can subsist on arsenic may have far-reaching implications for life on Earth, and beyond.

Who Owns Yoga?
November 28, 2010 – 1:12 am | 15 Comments
Who Owns Yoga?

The campaign does not ask yoga devotees to become Hindu, or instructors to teach more about Hinduism, but suggests only that people become more aware of yoga’s debt to the faith’s ancient traditions.

Stop External and Internal Threats to Vrindavan
November 3, 2010 – 11:10 pm | 4 Comments
Stop External and Internal Threats to Vrindavan

The Braj Vrindavan Heritage Alliance held its latest meeting on Sunday under the Tatia Sthan trees. This sacred place of bhajan, which preserves the ancient mood of the forest kunj, was a most suitable location for discussing the future of the Vrindavan environment.

The Moneyless Man
November 1, 2010 – 11:22 pm | 2 Comments
The Moneyless Man

“If you want to make a man rich, do not add to his wealth, but subtract from his desires.”