Really cool sculpture of Tagore

Tagore, the famous and beloved Indian Poet, Scholar, Activist, and Nobel Prize Winner is depicted here quite creatively. I don't know where this sculpture is located, I found the pictures here

a figure 8 on 8/08/08!

On the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the twenty first century the number eight appears in one of the fields of Wiltshire.

The number eight is a very meaningful number to the Chinese as it is also to many religions of the world.

The sheer scale of this formation is a marvel to behold. Many people were walking among its many circles in awe and wonder

there are many more crop circle pictures, as well as an interpretation here

Ayurvedic Spices Being Used to Fight Cancer

Seeking to improve on nature, scientists used a spice-based compound as a starting point and developed synthetic molecules that, in lab settings, are able to kill cancer cells and stop the cells from spreading.
The researchers are combining organic chemistry, computer-aided design and molecular biology techniques in developing and testing pharmaceutical compounds that can fight breast and prostate cancer cells. The synthetic molecules are derived from curcumin, a naturally occurring compound found in the spice turmeric.
Link Here

China's Tai Chi prisoners

It takes alot of work to put on a spectacle like the Tai Chi Demonstration at the Olympics. Approximately 11 months of 16 hour days. 2500 people working 16 hour days for 11 months. It would be expensive too, you've got to think. However, the Chinese found ways to cut costs. They decided to forgo decent housing, nutrition, free time, or monetary compensation.
Read more about that here

Rocker enlists the help of Kali, Shiva, and Ganesha to save Natalie Portman from the evil king

Great Video by Devendra Banhart

reader's comments are the best part of awful article about Amma

I was directed to this article about Amma in Newsweek yesterday. It is short, and offensive, and mostly pointless. The comments to the article are the most interesting part.

there are such gems as:

• Posted By: Thewhitesmiter @ 07/23/2008 11:40:54 PM

  Comment: I just visited one of her sites and noticed that's she fat. I've never seen a fat saint before. Isn't it a sin to eat too much or do Hindus believe that's okay because they have a god with an elephant 's head?

and also

Posted By: ppreeti @ 07/23/2008 5:45:09 PM

Comment: Very poorly written article. With not so very good English and no hify understanding, I think i can come up with better article, an article useful to the readers. Please do some check before releasing such articles. Such a huge and amazing event and this all this article writer could come up with.

perhaps you would like to post a comment of your own!
newsweek article

Buddhist Monk Suspended between life and death

from Al Jazeera