Need some new emotions? Take a look at this two TV realities that reflect pretty well the boredom that conventional life models produce, by having people try different lifestyles. And Russian millionaires sure know how to have fun! Their new hobbies include posing as a homeless or a prostitute in order to get fresh experiences. Arty mediocrity Next, a link to an art site by Banksy, a hype graffiti artist whose work could be caught in street campaigns throughout London. Exactly the kind of thing that aims at enlightening us but ends up settling down to old-fashioned slogans, and whose art feeds from topics so predictable and contemporaneous that they lack of any sign of boldness. Messages for the future Finally check out the Keo project, which allows people to send a message to the future generations. The messages will travel in a satellite, to return 50.000 years later and share that info with whatever may exist here. Bon Voyage! Have you ever felt while studying that your head was going to blow up? Well, close enough. A study states final exams generate so much tension they destroy neurons. Then experimental vaccines to treat cancer show promise. Plus more facts on longevity issues, and the importance of personal attitude as an influential factor in aging. After, don't always trust your doctors. Otherwise, take a peek at this article on medical errors. And some alarming data from British hospitals.		April 3rd, Thursday, 2003, ip nº36 Keep your head up, boy! The 20th century, a personal issue What's the importance of going back in time? These days, looking into the past seems to be people's new and improved obsession, and a key element to getting to know ourselves, as the relevance of this question grows bigger. Is History supposed to be some kind of hint on what's to come? Or is it just so hard to believe that our future belongs to us to mold it as we like? Do you mind if I ask what we are hoping to find? I don't know about you, but I suspect the clues may be nearer than we think. An interview with Eric Hobsbawm, the most prestigious of the historians alive, on the public interest on history and how this could develop in the future. Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_36_10.html Here you'll find an article on the latest craze, Genetic Genealogy, the use of DNA to track down relatives. Link: http://www.msnbc.com/news/generoots_front.asp?0si And the Jewish community in Argentina traces its origins in the country. Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_36_11.html A colorful range On the Human Shields Organization Either for humanitarian reasons or in defense of your country or faith, immolating for a higher cause keeps drawing my attention. The war has provided us with two new examples of that: young people around the world offering themselves as human shields in Iraq, and Iraqi volunteers ready to become "martyrs". Nonetheless when you read a humanitarian organization manifesto or hear on suicide motives you find the same severe reduction of reality. Ironically, choosing a cause to die for, allows them to carry on living without dealing with the constant certainty that the world is such a complex place. Read some info on the Truth Justice Peace Human Shield Action to Iraq. Link: http://www.anglingforums.co.uk/ Then find out more on the Iraqi martyrdom operations. Link: http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles200.htm We are all part of the same shit? "Now I'm happy" And finally a piece on what it's like for Jarvis Cocker to fear death and time, to dedicate some reflection (but not much) to it, to renounce fame and career ambitions in exchange of the "simpler" things like a lovely family, and of course to consider oneself a part of the so-called human pack, and to go through all this not so gracefully. By the way, do the words "giving up" and "boredom" ring a bell? Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_36_6.html Appeared in UsNews.		More data on the "rich children trauma", consisting of the discomfort produced in people entitled to large inheritances who reject the money and family advantages, overwhelmed by the power they own. First, Athina Onassis tries to get rid of her money blaming it and her name for all the trouble in her life. Then, more examples of wealthy people afflicted by the necessity of giving something back to society, and the lack of ideas to manage their fortunes. On the US war press coverage and general climate: The American cultural hermetism. Some patriotic hackers hijacked Al-Jazeera's website in a demonstration of some of the prepotency over any dissident vision that prevails these days. MTV banned war-related videos. Manifesting against the war? Bad idea. Check out just some of the costs of speaking your mind. Trapped in the prospects of having your son till his mid-twenties at home? What about having your parents back? Meet a new phenomenon, the "sandwich generation", and see how independence turned into the new utopia to the older generations. And find out how the war on Iraq has changed people's web habits, here. Detached inhabitant of the world Afterwards irony, paranoia and depression overcomes pop singer Robbie Williams´ latest work, whose recent karma is to be drawn to an apprehension towards life in general. Read it next. Go to "burned out celebrities" section.