Four Scouts to the New World

Brian George

It is discovered that life can be supported on a pristine planet just like the Earth located in a distant galaxy. The only difference is that there aren't any humans. Technology exists to get four people to the planet on a scouting mission. They will stay for one year, planning for the arrival of settlers from Earth.

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Cyclone Assistance

Morgan Maher

Current estimates report more than 120,000 dead or missing since Cyclone Nargis hit Burma on May 3rd. Meanwhile the ruling military slows aid and holds an election to approve a new constitution. Help those affected by donating to the International Burmese Monks Organization. (more)

Idiocracy: A Depraved and Hilarious Tale of Corporate Conspiracy

Jill Ettinger

Mike Judge's film Idiocracy is a hilarious peek at what humans might be like 500 years from now. Only, it's a description that's hauntingly fitting today. (more)

Flowers Losing Their Scent

Bill Machon

Worldwide, bees aren't pollenating plants because pollution is destroying their scent.

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Stronger, Smaller, Cheaper Solar

Bill Machon

A new solar startup has developed new solar technology that can compete economically with fossil fuels.

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Finding Peace Between Our Sheets

Adam Elenbaas

What if one of the largest problems plauging romantic relationships on the planet is so simple, so subtle, that it can happen 2 or 3 times in one night? In this RS interview I talk to Peace Between the Sheets author Marnia Robinson about why she believes orgasm addiction is responsible for relationship dis-eases. (more)

Evolving the Network: Politics, Culture, and Consciousness

Steven Taylor

At Reality Sandwich's Evolver Equinox in March, we held a panel discussion on the capacity of digital technology to transform our reality. The panelists were Laura Dawn, cultural director of MoveOn; Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, musician, writer, and filmmaker; Daniel Pinchbeck, author and editorial director of Reality Sandwich, and Peter Koechley, formerly of the Onion, now with MoveOn. (more)

Deep inner peace circuitry

Antonio Lopez

Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor talks about her stroke and how it taught her the brain's access point to inner peace. (more)

Horse-Powered Buggy

Kal Cobalt

What needs six motorcycle wheels, a treadmill, two LCD advertising screens, shock absorbers, and a horse? The Naturmobil literally puts the cart before the horse in a modern twist to equine travel. (more)

Sex with Insects

ST Frequency

In 'Green Porno', a deliciously cheeky short film series from the Sundance Channel, actress Isabella Rossellini explores the bizarre rituals of copulating bugs.

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After America

Kal Cobalt

"The word has shifted from anti-Americanism to post-Americanism," writes Fareed Zakaria in The Post-American World. (more)

And The Lilly Goes To...

Stephen Hershey

American poet and ecologist Gary Snyder is awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
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