NEW ORLEANS - A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. (all of my children in this picture are mixed race)

Gear Up for Giving is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness...

The goal is to collect pennies and ponytails for Locks of Love. 2009 PENNY DRIVE April 13-May 13 at participating restaurants and PONYTAIL DRIVE May 12 & 13 at participating salons. Please visit the website for locations! Also a cause on Facebook.

As the planet starts heating up, maybe it's time to finally go cold turkey. Take the personal challenge by locking up your debit card, your credit cards, your money clip, and see what it feels like to opt out of consumer culture, even if only for 24 hrs.

Today, the Charter for Compassion website is scheduled to go active. The goal is to spread the "Golden Rule" which exists in some form in all religions. All religions and secular beliefs are welcome to help write it and video can also be uploaded.

Entered in Google's Project 10 to the 100th, structured workplace programs replicate a "village" model of working and caring for children, and even many who were highly resistant to these programs prior to implementation ended up supporting the programs.

But researchers now say that ancient man could actually start fire, rather than relying on natural phenomena such as lightning.

This is a site, nickelodeon.com sponsored. It is all about if kids could pick the president. They actually held an election where all the kids voted to see who would win the election if kids could vote.

This new branch of science is allowing us to have our cake and eat it too. By designing new compounds and discovering new ways to make old compounds, chemists are helping us keep our modern innovations while reducing our ecological footprint.

Internet use could improve brain function and speed up decision-making, but it comes at the expense of empathy and the ability to think in abstract terms, scientists have found.