False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a...

There\’s something about the bike, along with the chair, that draws designers. Despite being an almost perfect design already, the reworkings of the humble bicycle seem almost endless. Some are genuine improvements, such as the change from pedals...

Between 1950 and 2000, the death rate from heart disease in the United States plummeted nearly 70 percent, and the death rate from stroke nearly 80 percent. However, although we\’re dying of heart attack and stroke less often, we\’re still...

For the first time, NBC6 talked exclusively with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s ex-wife. Some Venezuelans have fled their country because of Chavez, a controversial leader, and many of them have ended up in South Florida.

Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem.

Cigarette smoking may be bad for your health, but it’s great for the wildlife! Brian Klaus of Nothing Else Better To Do Than Read This Blog wrote:

Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims. But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation’s Web site with hundreds of...

For those of you who loath the idea of Facebook using your web activities for their benefit with out having you permission, this post describes how to block Facebook Beacon in Mozilla. There are also suggestions at the end of the article for people who...