In one of those only-in-New Orleans stories, visitors who put back too many beers and hurricanes in the Big Easy have a remedy to help them shake off that dreaded New Year’s hangover: Sara, the Recovery Concierge.

An exhibit of underwear worn by Portuguese celebrities, which included an item donated by Manchester United’s teenage football star Cristiano Ronaldo, wrapped up after causing traffic to surge at a small gallery in northern Portugal.

Being overweight dramatically increases the chances of women on the pill getting pregnant.

Men would rather marry their female assistants than equal-ranking women or their supervisors, according to social psychologists.

Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a “sixth sense” for disasters.

Twenty eight Chilean women took all their clothes off in the middle of a busy road in Santiago to pay homage to a poet. Crazy photo.

Scientists are concerned that the Information Age is nurturing ‘cognitive overload,’ an umbrella term for the malaise people feel as a result of distraction, stress, multitasking, and data congestion related to increasingly sophisticated technologies.

People that need wheels for the occasional errand or day trip now have the option of Zipcar, a car-sharing service based in Cambridge, CT.

A San Francisco company called Ingenio has developed a Web advertising system that helps smaller businesses make better use of powerful tools like Google’s new local search service and Yahoo’s online yellow pages.

Americans have long been captivated by the notion of self-improvement–none more so than Benjamin Franklin. An accomplished printer, author, postmaster, scientist, inventor, and diplomat who taught himself to speak five languages, this Founding Father never stopped striving to change for the better.

A new reality TV show will feature dogs having facelifts and a rabbit having a tummy tuck.

Brad Feld:
Amy gave me an awesome coffee table book yesterday called Family Business. I devoured it last night after dinner. She told me it was a Christmas present – if all Christmas presents are like this I might actually start liking Christmas.

Networking is a difficult skill to master, especially in today’s complex world of business. For this reason the DaVinci Institute has put together a unique course to train people on the greatly misunderstood art of power networking.

Using GPS to track workers and vehicles is catching on with a growing number of business and government employers, bent on improving productivity and customer service, and keeping tabs on labor costs.

Semiconducting nanocrystals have been grown inside bacteria – the innards of future optical computers could be made inside microbes.

Porn ads slipped down the list of top junk e-mails in 2004, replaced by those hawking online Vioxx prescriptions, ID theft scams and stock pick information.

A recently rediscovered 400-meter asteroid is predicted to pass near Earth on April 13, 2029, meriting the highest rating yet for a hazardous near-Earth object.

A 55-year-old woman acting as a surrogate for her daughter gave birth to triplets Tuesday.

Thomas Sowell:
In the midst of all the alarms being sounded about the health risks from taking Vioxx and Celebrex, there is a story about National Football League players using less padding than in the past. What is the connection?

An aircraft the size of a bee gets its energy by feeding itself a diet of dead flies. The tiny aircraft could be buzzing around the battlefields and motorways of the future, thanks to research in southwest England.

Consumers will spend billions this holiday season on CDs, DVDs and machines to record and play the ubiquitous silver discs.
But the inventor of the underlying technology won’t make a cent.

Richard Branson has been mugging and grinning, diving and rappelling, ballooning and mooning his way to extreme mogulhood for nearly 40 years. Now he wants to fly you to space.

Human beings tend to get hung up on looks. Whether it’s cars, buildings or other people, homo sapiens have a habit of associating form with function. But every now and then, through evolutionary and revolutionary steps, the shape and size of things change.

The “slow food” movement will encourage families to spend more time
eating together at home, according to Robin Kline, a food-industry
consultant in Des Moines.

Americans report feeling less alienated than they have in the recent past, according to the latest Harris Poll’s Alienation Index–a measure
of responses to five key issue areas. Fewer Americans in 2004 believed….