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The Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium located on Central Park West, New York City, next to and organizationally part of the American Museum of Natural History.
From: Wikipedia®

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Since February 2000, the planetarium has been one of the two main attractions within the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The top half of the [...]

HAITI NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Thanks to my friend Linda Forsythe (Official Page)
Here is a List of Charities:
Action Against Hunger

American Red Cross

American Jewish World Service

AmeriCares

Beyond Borders

CARE

Catholic Relief Services

Childcare Worldwide

Direct Relief International

Doctors Without Borders

Feed My Starving Children

Friends of WFP

Haitian Health Foundation

Hope for Haiti

International Medical Corps

International Relief Teams

Medical Teams International

Meds and Food for Kids

Mercy Corps

Operation [...]

© Matthieu Ricard (born 1946) is a Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
Recently the Dalai Lama Center Canada organized a Peace Summit in Vancouver with the Dalai Lama and other Nobel Prize winners and speakers. One evening the rock singer and humanitarian Bob Geldof, whose Live Aid concerts have [...]

09/10/2009
NEWS
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
awarded to:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA…

“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”

Photo: Pete Souza, Obama-Biden Transition Project, licensed by Attribution Share Alike 3.0

Barack Obama

USA

44th President of the United States of America

b. 1961

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that [...]

Money, Power, Wisdom:
September 20, 2009

Before you read any further, let me warn you. This blog post is not typical of what I usually write – and is DEFINITELY NOT for everyone!
If the “existential dilemma” leaves you cold (you lucky dog, you!), or your “search for meaning” rarely surfaces, and (when it does) [...]

Olivier de Kersauson (b. 20 July 1944) is a French sailor and sailing champion.

Kersauson was the seventh child in a family of eight. While he was the only Kersauson not to have been born in Brittany, he was born on 20 July 1944 and brought up near Morlaix in a “provincial Catholic aristocracy with compulsory [...]

The first of Buddha’s Four Noble Truths:
“Life is Difficulty”

Einstein sought in science what artists seek in art.
Einstein attempted to escape from the gloominess and terrors of society by connecting with the whole universe.
Einstein wanted sense and beauty in the physical world.
“God does not play dice with the Universe.”
He hoped to find a hidden [...]