A 2005 article in National Geographic identified three regions of the world where people have consistently shown longer life spans: Okinawa, Sardinia, and Loma Linda, California. Dan Buettner, a researcher and explorer involved with the 2005 article, decided to do a follow-up study to determine if there were more regions to be discovered. His team found an abnormally large number of people living ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a space comedy about a human and an alien who hitch a ride with a spacecraft just before the Earth is destroyed. Along with other characters, they go on a quest to find answers to the mystery of life.

The clip begins with the spaceship's crew viewing an alien video. The narrator of the clip says, "Many millions of years ago, a race of hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional ...

The United States doesn't always come in first place. UNICEF surveyed 21 of the most developed nations and measured how kids related to other kids, spent time with parents, used alcohol and/or drugs, and perceived their own happiness. Tight-knit nations—like Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Finland—ranked the highest when it came to young people feeling secure and happy. The U.S. ...

On my desk I like to display, on a bookstand, the kind of gift books you put on the coffee table—those filled with professional photos of nature or tourist destinations. My current book is called America's Spectacular National Parks (author, Michael Duchemin). For several days I have had the book open to a photo of the Grand Teton Mountains, an extra-wide photo that filled not only the left page, ...

In the sci-fi fantasy The Island, a runaway medical corporation has blurred all moral lines by creating clones of wealthy individuals who are willing to pay for an insurance policy on their extended life.

The clones, called agnates, are kept in a remote location where a pseudo-world has been created for them. All they know is their own existence, and when their sponsor (the person who bankrolled their ...

Freelance writer Greta Christina, published often in feminist and adult magazines, is brutally honest regarding her dilemma about dying. As an atheist, she realizes she has a problem with facing death and disbelieving in an afterlife. Writing in a magazine popular with skeptics called the Skeptical Inquirer, she admits:

Death can be an appalling thing to think about. Not just frightening, not just ...

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.

—Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) to an aspiring young Starship commander facing a difficult and dangerous test

Elapsed Time: 00:07:07 seconds from the start of the Paramount logo.

Content: Rated PG for violence and language

It's common knowledge that most Americans believe in God. For example, a 2006 Newsweek poll revealed that "Americans said they believed in God by a margin of 92 to 6—only 2 percent answered, 'don't know.'" Even so, there are many people who still set forth the case for atheism.

But astronomer Carolyn Porco is attempting to split the difference. She believes that "science itself should attempt ...

If life isn't about humanity, then tell me what it's all about, because I'd love to know. Money and power aren't what life is about. It can't be.

—Actor Orlando Bloom

Text: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" (Jeremiah 29:11).

Purpose: To understand how God uses all of life's experiences to create a life message

Objects: An afghan, a bundle of jumbled and mismatched yarn, and two large knitting needles

Experience: I pulled out a bundle of yarn and described how life ...