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Scientists have discovered 17 "lost" Egyptian pyramids using space satellite images and robots, putting a whole new spin on Egyptian excursions.

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Source: Satellites Discover Lost Egyptian Pyramids (VIDEO)

June 5th marks the 30th anniversary of AIDS. In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the first accounts of rare illnesses reported in young gay men in New York and Los Angeles in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Within a few years, the disease that we first came to know as GRID (gay related immune deficiency or "the gay plague") and now know as AIDS permeated all segments of our population, and many parts of the world.Since 1981, medical science has helped us understand the mechanisms of this infectious disease and how to treat it. We have also developed a large body of social science to inform HIV prevention. However, our knowledge about prevention largely has been ignored. New medical treatments have saved or improved millions of lives. But we could save many more if we developed scientifically-directed prevention policies as well.More...

Source: Re-Centering Science in the Fight Against AIDS

Hoping to inspire people to raise funds for charity, and give them easy ways to do so, actor Edward Norton launched Crowdrise last year.The website offers personal fundraising pages and other tools so individuals can maximize their impact to raise donations for nonprofits they care about.More...

Source: Edward Norton On Crowdrise, Leveraging Personal Relationships To Fundraise For Charity

ATHENS/BERLIN (Angeliki Koutantou and Annika Breidthardt) - Greece could raise up to six times more than planned by selling state assets, an ECB policymaker said, as the country's leader renewed efforts to forge a political consensus on new austerity measures.More...

Source: Greece Could Raise 300B Euros By Selling State Assets: ECB Official

"But what I really want to do is direct..."It's the ancient Hollywood caveat, the actor's stab at greater control over his own work and image -- or, at least, in some cases, a stab at at least seeming to have a deeper creative ambition.More...

Source: Bradley Cooper, 'Hyperion' Screenwriter; Director, Too?

I went to a school in Brooklyn called Midwood High, across from Brooklyn College. My best friend then was the late Hilly Elkins. When we were seniors, there was a funny, bespectacled freshman named Allen Stewart Konigsberg writing jokes for the school's newspaper, The Argus.   Hilly and I used to read his funny stuff aloud and predicted he might have a future in show business. The young man had gone to the same public school as me, P.S. 99, and lived just one block from me on Avenue K in Brooklyn.Some years later, I was Production V.P. of a film company called Palomar financed by Leonard Goldenson's ABC Network. By then the comedy writer's name went from Heywood Allen to Woody Allen and he had graduated from doing standup routines in the Duplex club in the Village to becoming a very successful TV writer. I often went to Michael's supper club to hear him play clarinet with his jazz group. In 1966 he wrote a Broadway show called Don't Drink The Water.More...

Source: Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen and Me!

In my youth I was a ballet dancer.  In recent years I have signed up for dance classes, and in my mind, I am capable of dancing at the same level and ability as my 18-year-old self.  Sadly, my brain and my body have not kept in touch over the years and thus my brain receives a harsh reality check when I start to move and my body pays the price.Serving in hospice care, I have learned that I am not alone in this mind/body disconnect.  We see this disconnect in our hospice patients all the time and their bodies too pay the price, often in the form of falls.  As clinical staff we assess for fall risk at every visit, but as many of my hospice colleagues across the country could attest, the odds of hospice patients falling seem to be stacked against us.  Each hospice patient comprises a perfect storm for falls due to the unique and complex layering of personal symptomatic factors, environmental factors as well as perceived goals for movement.More...

Source: Aging and the Mind-Body Disconnect

Since many of us will be firing up grills, smokers and barbecue pits this weekend, we thought it would be a public service to remind everyone of the first rule of grilling: do not pour flammable liquids onto open flames. Fortunately for these guys, it looks like everyone is okay. Let's hope a lesson was learned.WATCH:More...

Source: Barbecue Fail: A Cautionary Tale For Your Memorial Day Grilling Plans (VIDEO)

As a boy in Erie, Illinois, each year on Memorial Day, most of the 1,300 residents of my hometown turned out for the parade that began in the triangle of businesses that lined the center of the village. They watched or marched as the procession of veterans, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Knights of Columbus and others moved spritely down the blacktop street to enter the village cemetery lined by tall pine trees.There, speeches were made, prayers were offered, a 21-gun salute boomed over the adjoining cornfield and the mournful sound of "Taps" echoed off headstones. And then all walked somberly home.More...

Source: 'Greater Love Has No One Than This': A Memorial Day Tribute

Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not discuss the G8 summit with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, a Harper spokesman says.The statement by Dimitri Soudas, Harper's communications director, appears to contradict a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that Netanyahu phoned Harper before the summit to ask him to block G8 support for a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders.More...

Source: Israel 1967 Borders: Harper And Netanyahu Didn't Chat About It, Spokesman Says