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Articles, quotes and videos found on the internet of interest to our readers.

Published by The Huffington Post on 30 April 2013, an article by Meredith Melnick on the benefits of meditation; a marvelous diagram shows the health benefits of meditation that include structural changes to the brain.

Trailer for Chris Jordan’s powerful film about the horrendous implications our tossed aside plastic garbage has for all of us, and a cruel death for the albatrosses in the North Pacific.

In an article published by The Telegraph on January 22, 2013, renowned naturalist, film maker and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough declares humans are threatening their own existence and that of other species by using up the world’s resources.

It is with a heavy heart that I read about another brutal gang rape by 6 or 7 men of a 29 year-old woman, this time in Punjab. Not much is yet known about the circumstances other than she is believed to have been travelling on a bus back to her village on Friday night.

In an article published by CNN on 9.1.2012, Deepak Chopra explains that the brain is dynamic and ever-renewing itself and how brain functions can be improved through the mind. Whatever we pay attention to is registered in the brain and drastically shapes its structure.

More and more wake-up calls are reaching us. More and more individuals speak up. Here’s Abby Martin (of Russia Today, US Edition) taking a look back at Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ and its application to today’s society.

Listening to people speak, I have often wondered why so many make random, commonplace statements and query them at the same time. Their voice ups and the sentence becomes a question rather than a statement.

The hunt for terrorists hasn’t ebbed even though the main character, bin Laden, is no longer on the scene. On the contrary, some agencies are coming up with more and more creative ideas on how to identify a terrorist. Don’t miss Frank Zappa’s quote at the bottom!

BBC reports the exciting discovery of a planet whose skies are illuminated by four different suns – the first known of its type. This exciting finding was made by two US volunteers, Kian Jek of San Francisco and Robert Gagliano from Cottonwood, Arizona, by using the Planet Hunters website.

An inspiring call to face and embrace the challenges before us, to create a field of love to surround our planet, to meditate, to awaken: “We can create love on this earth – all you have to do is look within.”

A recent article by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times finally addresses the fact that common chemicals in our environment “may be even more harmful than previously thought. It seems that they may damage us in ways that are transmitted generation after generation, imperiling not only us but also our descendants.