Figment for Your Imagination

Jennifer Flynn — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:31:35 -0700

Extreme Solar

Morgan Maher — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:20:26 -0700

SUNRGI's Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics (XCPV) uses a simple method to produce large amounts of solar energy: a magnifying glass. Each unit is fitted with a lens that magnifies the sun’s rays 2,000 times and focuses it onto a solar cell that converts more than 37% sunlight to energy.

Fourth-Level Digital Dharma: The Broken Heart of Television

Steven Vedro — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:02:18 -0700

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Horse-Powered Buggy

Kal Cobalt — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:45:25 -0700

"My friends and relatives thought of me as a somewhat eccentric half-mad inventor attempting the impossible," says Abdolhadi Mirhejazi, the Iranian engineer who invented the Naturmobil.
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Saving through Second Life

Bridget Algiere — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:35:39 -0700

The University of Southern California’s Network Culture Project is hosting a community challenge titled Second Life and the Public Good. Led by Doug Thomas, principal investigator at the USC Annenberg School of Communication, the USC Network Culture Project invites the residents of Second Life to imagine new ways that virtual worlds can be used to make a contribution to the public good.
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Spiritual Boot Camp

Andrew Boyd — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:57:05 -0700

This essay is part two in a five-part series accounting the author's stay in a monastery in Thailand. For part one, click here. An abridged version previously appeared in The Sun.

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The Future of Psychedelics

Daniel Pinchbeck — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:58:14 -0700

This article originally appeared in Conscious Choice magazine.

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Sex with Insects

ST Frequency — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:36:38 -0700

Earthworms do it in the 69 position. Male bees sacrifice their penises to impregnate the queen. Mantises "give head" – literally.
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Flowers Losing Their Scent

Bill Machon — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:30:57 -0700

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Estonia's Quick Clean

Morgan Maher — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:27:17 -0700

Using GPS, Google Earth and satellite photos 10,656 illegal garbage dumping sites across Estonia were located and mapped. On May 3rd, 50,000 volunteers set out to clean it all up in one day.
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After America

Kal Cobalt — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:54:36 -0700

"We are living through the third great power shift in modern history," writes Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria. "At the military and political level, we still live in a unipolar world. But along every other dimension––industrial, financial, social, cultural––the distribution of power is shifting, moving away from American dominance."
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And the Lilly Goes to...

Stephen Hershey — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:34:57 -0700

American poet and ecologist Gary Snyder, often associated with the Beat Generation, has recently won the 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. In announcing the winner of this $100,000 lifetime achievment award, Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman said: “Gary Snyder is in essence a contemporary devotional poet, though he is not devoted to any one god or way of being so much as to Being itself. His poetry is a testament
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Four Scouts to the New World

Brian George — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:09:39 -0700

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Bread and Circuits

Antonio Lopez — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:58:49 -0700

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Biofuels and the Rise of Nationalistic Environmentalism

Alexis Zeigler — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:46:46 -0700

The current food crisis was terribly predictable, and has been anticipated for several years now. Starting about seven years ago, the world started using more food than it was producing, steadily eating into stored supplies. As grain stores have shrunk year by year, the biofuel movement has taken off like a virus. Rapid biofuel expansion has been propelled by a concern over American dependence on imported oil, as well as concerns about "sustainable" energy supplies and carbon emissions.
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Unnatural Threat

Morgan Maher — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:33:22 -0700

A proposed Canadian legislation, Bill C-51 plans to remove 70% of natural health products (vitamins, herbs, traditional medicines) from Canadians with many others available by prescription only.

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Crashing Waves

Morgan Maher — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:22:20 -0700

Rising food costs and shortages of staples like beans, corn, rice and wheat are causing turmoil in many countries. Recently the UN World Food Programme (WFP) described the global food shortage as a "Silent Tsunami."

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Shift Happens

Antonio Lopez — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:18:29 -0700

The Shift is an exciting documentary project that highlights an emergent global culture and its push for change. You can get involved by visiting the site and sharing the video.

The film is a work in progress, and claims to be made by "the movemement."
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Souldish NYC: May 8-15

Salma — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:03:33 -0700

Greetings New Yorkers. There’s some stellar events happening this week. Be sure to check out MANA-fest II: Cosmic Convergence at SEED Gallery, CC Treadway’s Sacred Space of the Heart, the film screening of “Hofmann’s Potion,” and get an early bird’s eye view of an upcoming CoSM event with Robert Venosa.

Send your events to salma(at)souldish(dot)com. For more in-depth listings, subscribe to the Souldish newsletter.

One love…

Salma

=====Friday, May 9th=====
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Family Doin's

Rudolph Wurlitzer — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:30:30 -0700

This story is excerpted from the new novel, The Drop Edge of Yonder, and is reprinted with permission of the publisher, Two Dollar Radio .

HATCHET JACK AND ZEBULON RODE NORTH ACROSS THE high desert towards the Spanish Peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Two days later they reached the cabin, a hard little stand at the end of a steep valley, quilted halfway to the roof with drifting snow.
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Religion and Insanity

Jay Michaelson — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:34:43 -0700

1. Mother Eagle

A friend of mine is getting into angels, and I don't know what to do.
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Helping RS Out

Jonathan Phillips — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:24:28 -0700

So far, 900 of you have completed the Reality Sandwich survey. Thanks! We're shooting for 1,000. If you haven't already filled it out, take a minute and help us reach our goal. This will assist us in planning some new features we'll be rolling out. We also hope to attract more and bigger advertisers to the site, and they will only sign up if they know more about our audience. We're also curious to
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Goodbye Albert!

Daniel Pinchbeck — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:22:08 -0700

To commemorate Albert Hofmann's life and legacy, Reality Sandwich will be screening the film "Hofmann's Potion" -- featuring Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and many pioneers -- and the recent History Channel documentary featuring Wade Davis, " Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey", this Sunday night, at 7:30 pm. The screening will be followed by an audience discussion with John Perry Barlow and Daniel Pinchbeck.
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Major Infringement

Erin Shaw — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:21:10 -0700

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Brain Workout

Bridget Algiere — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:02:50 -0700

Researchers at PositScience have recently developed brain fitness programs to help you "think faster, focus beter, and remember more." Participants play fitness games for about an hour per day on a computer, training their brains to react to certain stimuli faster, thereby speeding up the process of when nerve cells talk to each other. One subject explained the experience as if it were like opening a new door in her brain filled with the things she had forgotten.

First, Love Yourself

Wendy Strgar — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:26:28 -0700

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Open Source Explosion

Bill Machon — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:06:14 -0700

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Plant Song

Morgan Maher — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:55:13 -0700

The Singing Plant art installation gives feedback in the form of sounds and light when it is touched. The more people touch it, the more it responds. The sound gains volume and the light in the room grows from dim to bright.

"The purpose is not to provide answers, but to question established preceptions of the relationship between man, machine and nature."
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The Transformation of the God-Image

Paul Levy — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:43:40 -0700

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MANA-fest II: Cosmic Convergence

Jonathan Phillips — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:33:02 -0700

Reality Sandwich, Souldish, and SEED Gallery present..

MANA-fest II: Cosmic Convergence

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