WHAT IS THE FOUNDATION FOR A DRUG-FREE WORLD?

The Foundation for a Drug-Free World is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to the eradication of illicit drugs, their abuse and their attendant criminality. The Drug-Free World campaign is predicated on the statistically proven fact that wherever young people are presented with the unvarnished “truth about drugs,” illicit usage drops. Accordingly, the Drug-Free World information and prevention campaign features thirteen Truth About Drugs booklets—one for each of the most commonly abused substances. Campaign materials also include an Educator’s Kit to provide teachers, law enforcement and community groups effective tools to help young people make the right decision. Incisive public service announcements and documentary videos complement The Truth About Drugs series—ninety minutes on every drug of choice from those who have been there.

To date, more than 700 million have heard or seen The Truth About Drugs message and wherever campaign materials have saturated populations, usage rates have dramatically dropped.



Rosetta's Eulogy

Rosetta lived a good long life. For 12 years, the NASA spacecraft successfully stalked Comet 67P, sending back load of data for its inventors to analyze. This morning, the spacecraft was intentionally sent into the comet where it crashed, ending its 12-year tenure. Like everyone, its life was full of ups and downs, including losing its Philae lander in 2014 and then recently finding it this past summer. Read more about its best moments here.

World's New Largest LEGO Structure

There is a record for the largest LEGO structure in the world. And it was just broken. A 42-foot tall replica of London's Tower Bridge, which has 5,805,846 bricks, is now the reigning champ. Let's hope it doesn't all fall down.

SELF-DRIVING CHAIRS AND 3D-PRINTED BONES

Take An Ubercopter

Uber product head Jeff Holden announced that Uber is extremely interested in VTOL, or “vertical takeoff and landing”, technologies. VTOL vehicles can take off and land from small pads like helicopters, making flying from one random location to another much easier.

Don't Look Down

For people who have a fear of heights, most bridges can be challenging to cross. But the soon-to-open Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge in China is sure to be frightening to even the most daring. When the bridge opens in 2017, it will be the world's longest and highest glass bridge in the world. Read more about how they built it here.

ERADICATING DRUG ABUSE 
THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS

A global problem, drug abuse demands a global solution.

In response, the Church of Scientology and Scientologists sponsor the Truth About Drugs program, one of the world’s largest nongovernmental drug education and prevention initiatives. To popularize drug-free living, a broad spectrum of fact-filled, high-impact educational materials are distributed by the millions by the nonprofit, public benefit Foundation for a Drug-Free World to schools, community groups and governmental institutions worldwide. Drawing on decades of experience in drug education and prevention, the Truth About Drugs program effectively communicates the reality of drug abuse individually and through mass communication.

Because young people presented with the unvarnished facts about what drugs can do are far more likely to reject them on their own, Truth About Drugs is in high demand as an educational tool in schools, law enforcement units and community-based settings. More than 62 million educational booklets have been distributed, and public service announcements have reached more than 260 million viewers in 123 countries.Throughout the United States, in communities large and small, the effectiveness of the Truth About Drugs program is recognized by law enforcement personnel at all levels as part of the solution to drugs and crime.

In 2011 in Los Angeles, home of the largest sheriff’s department in the nation, the Los Angeles County Sheriff wrote, “The Truth About Drugs education program that the Church [of Scientology] supports means everything to the safety of our schools and neighborhoods. It is a tremendously successful program worldwide, and particularly needed. This is why we have trained a corps of our own officers in the use of this unparalleled program. I want to thank you for everything you do in helping me do my job because today crime in Los Angeles is at its lowest in 40 years.”

Similarly, the program is a vital part of law enforcement’s drug education efforts throughout New York City, where one New York Police Department officer wrote that the Foundation for a Drug-Free World “provides a wonderful service in guiding children in the right direction to turn away from drugs.” Another wrote that the Foundation is “doing a colossal service to all communities across New York City and we look forward to a continued partnership in educating our children on the dangers of drugs.”

The Universe

              

The Universe is everything we can touch, feel,                   sense, measure or detect. It includes living things,                 planets, stars, galaxies, dust clouds, light, and even             time. Before the birth of the Universe, time, space and           matter did not exist.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The Universe contains billions of galaxies, each containing millions or billions of stars. The space between the stars and galaxies is largely empty. However, even places far from stars and planets contain scattered particles of dust or a few hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter. Space is also filled with radiation (e.g. light and heat), magnetic fields and high energy particles (e.g. cosmic rays).

The Universe is incredibly huge. It would take a modern jet fighter more than a million years to reach the nearest star to the Sun. Travelling at the speed of light (300,000 km per second), it would take 100,000 years to cross our Milky Way galaxy alone.

No one knows the exact size of the Universe, because we cannot see the edge – if there is one. All we do know is that the visible Universe is at least 93 billion light years across. (A light year is the distance light travels in one year – about 9 trillion km.)

The Universe has not always been the same size. Scientists believe it began in a Big Bang, which took place nearly 14 billion years ago. Since then, the Universe has been expanding outward at very high speed. So the area of space we now see is billions of times bigger than it was when the Universe was very young. The galaxies are also moving further apart as the space between them expands.

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