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Climate Change: Are Cows the Solution?

October 2nd, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

What takes place in the digestive system and under the hooves of ruminants might be the crucible of climate change. In other words, a climate-friendly future might look less like a geo-engineered landscape with faux parasols than like, well, “Home On the Range.”


Do “Laws” of Physics Only Apply Locally?

September 28th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

A team of astrophysicists based in Australia and England has uncovered evidence that the laws of physics are different in different parts of the universe


Krishna Learning Resource for Children

September 27th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Anyone who is both a devotee of Krishna and works with children has probably wanted to have high quality materials to teach their children about Krishna, and moral values, while giving them academic skills. Finally there is a program that achieves these goals


The Burning Question

September 10th, 2010 | by Nitaisundara

As September 11 approaches, the world watches as Terry Jones wavers in his plan to burn the Quran in protest of the Ground Zero mosque


Past Life Popularity

September 5th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

In that earlier incarnation, “I was going along, going along, going along, and I got eaten,” said Dr. DeBell, referring to his previous life as a caveman


More Ordination Issues

August 31st, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Barring women from being Catholic priests is not the result of sexism 2,000 years ago, it\'s because women cannot fulfill a basic function of the priesthood, \"standing in the place of Jesus,\" a leading British Catholic thinker argued Monday


Empathy Sets Vegetarians Apart

July 26th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Assuming that vegetarians and vegans—because of their underlying moral philosophies—show greater empathy towards animal suffering, it is very well possible that this enhanced empathy extends to other humans also


Catholicism’s Ordination Disorder

July 21st, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Either these gentlemen are more ethically tone deaf than one can imagine, or they are sly beyond the dreams of foxes in an effort to redirect attention from the criminal behavior of clergy against children to their wrath over the ordination of women. Neither option is terribly appealing


Vrindavan’s Suburbanization

July 11th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Who will protect Vrindavan from the onslaught business schemes, pollution, and general environmental apathy?


The Coming Roundup Revolution

June 16th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Monsanto\'s herbicide that revolutionized weed control in the 1990s is facing its own worst enemy: the weeds are revolting against it


God, Science, and Philanthropy

June 10th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Some adore the Templeton Foundation for funding research that no one else will, while some despise it for the very same reason, claiming that the effort to combine science and spirituality merely sullies the former



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