M.J. Rose

Politics aside, the Dalai Lama’s rare wisdom is so incredibly attuned to help us deal with our modern dilemmas – I imagine that his counsel would be very, very helpful for any world leader, particularly one such as Obama with huge decisions to make very quickly about the war. If I could offer only one kernal of advice to Obama it would be to seek out as much time with the Dalai Lama as possible…

President Obama passes on meeting with the Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama was in Washington this week meeting with politicians, scientists, and students. Notably missing from the schedule was President Obama who will meet with His Holiness after a November meeting with Chinese leader Hu Jintao.
The Dalai Lama was in the United States this week visiting with dignitaries and politicians on his continuing mission of the regaining the sovereignty of Tibet which has been on going for decades.
He spoke with students at the American University, scientist, and politicians. But so far he as not met with President Obama which would be the first time a sitting President as not had an audience with the religious leader.
President Obama has agreed to meet with him only after meeting with Chinese leader Hu Jintao in November. This move by the President has caused a curious stir in politics in Washington.

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Radiant Works of Art
After battling vocal cord cancer last year, Cookie Kerxton organized an art exhibit, “Courage Unmasked,” featuring the masks that she and other cancer patients wore during radiation treatments. The first in the series is titled “Reincarnation”-

Enjoy this series of incredible masks here.

In a sense, fossils are like reincarnations – they can bring to life lost knowledge of an entire lineage of a species.

Oldest “Human” Skeleton Found–Disproves “Missing Link”

Jamie Shreeve Science editor, National Geographic magazine

Move over, Lucy. And kiss the missing link goodbye. Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago. The centerpiece of a treasure trove of new fossils, the skeleton—assigned to a species called Ardipithecus ramidus—belonged to a small-brained, 110-pound (50-kilogram) female nicknamed “Ardi.” (See pictures of Ardipithecus ramidus.)

The fossil puts to rest the notion, popular since Darwin’s time, that a chimpanzee-like missing link—resembling something between humans and today’s apes—would eventually be found at the root of the human family tree…

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