Green Living Resources - The Healthy Building Network

I'm always looking for new, informative and relevant resources for Green Living. The Healthy Bulding Network has become a recent favorite. HBN has a wealth of information on Green Building, laws and advances in Green Technologies.

This Is Your Brain On Jazz

"Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have found that, when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity known as improvisation, a large region of the brain involved in monitoring one’s performance is shut down, while a small region involved in organizing self-initiated thoughts and behaviors is highly activated."

Some of you cats were already hip to some shit like THIS going down....dig?

Hubble peers into the Great Eye of Sauron

"Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have released a rather remarkable Hubble image of a ring of dust around star Fomalhaut, described by New Scientist as resembling "the Great Eye of Sauron"."

Unfortunately, the scientists have reported no word on the Shire. Read more HERE.