Have you ever sat down in your living room, taken a long look around, and asked yourself where all your stuff came from? Or where it's going to go when you're ready for new stuff and you throw out the old? Well, environmental activist Annie Leonard has put together a clever, fact-filled, and shocking short film explaining how your stuff moves through the linear chain of materials production and how each stage of this process impacts the environment, workers in the third world, health, and even peoples' overall happiness. Check out the Story of Stuff in today's features.

Meanwhile, in today's top analysis, an organization working with refugees brings to our attention the status of displaced Iraqis, who are said to be returning home primarily due to economic reasons. Plus, in our news section, the spotlight is on child soldiers in Burma as rights groups are urging the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on this country's military government.