Rates of early death and disability that can be attributed to sexual behavior are three times higher in the United States than other so-called developed nations, a new study finds.

Armpit sweat can boost older women’s sex lives.
Researchers claim women who wore perfume with an added chemical found in female sweat were more likely to have sex than those who did not.

Adam Penenberg:
Like many recent graduates of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, David Hauslaib is seeking a job in magazine publishing.
In the meantime, instead of temping, waiting tables or living off the fat of his family, the 21-year-old Hauslaib shovels snark for a living. Of course, it’s not [...]

Viral marketing, in which low-profile ads spread quickly online as people share them, has become an intriguing strategy for many marketers trying to look beyond traditional 30-second television commercials.
But marketers are not the only ones taking the viral approach.

Future explorers on the Moon and Mars could be outfitted in lightweight, high-tech spacesuits that offer far more flexibility than the bulky suits that have been used for spacewalks in the 1960s.

As their growth slows, dating websites offer plenty of new options – from background checks to more detailed questionnaires.

Skip Rizzo and colleagues are developing a psychological tool to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, by bringing soldiers back to the scenes that still haunt them. A similar simulation is in the works for victims of the World Trade Center attacks.

Houston police, long thwarted in their campaign against prostitution by an internal policy that barred officers from removing their clothes, have reaped results by shedding that unwritten rule.

Thomas Frey:
As people move through life, they search for signposts along the way. They search for those rare pieces of intelligence that give them a gut-level feeling of confidence about what to do next. Today’s women are particularly adept at reading these signposts, which range from magazine articles, to movies, to conversations with [...]

Researchers, from Auburn University in Alabama, were conducting research on black flies when they discovered a protein in their saliva that speeds the healing of surgical incisions.

By squeezing most of the computing functions needed by a mobile phone onto one chip, Texas Instruments might make handsets so cheap that companies can dish them out like confetti.

Developing systems that never fail, and getting computers to act more like like humans, are two of the “big computing issues” facing IT research scientists and universities, the British Computer Society (BCS) said today.

Antispam activists last week vowed to get tough with purveyors of penis pills and get-rich-quick schemes, who continue to dodge sophisticated e-mail filters and break laws meant to curtail their activities.

Catwoman leads the nominations for this year’s Razzie Awards – a spoof version of the Oscars.
Catwoman has seven nominations, among them worst picture, worst actress for Halle Berry and worst supporting players for Sharon Stone and Lambert Wilson.

Building workers in Chile became a local sensation after accidentally staging their own naked reality show.

Seth Godin:
Fred Wilson talks about John Battelle’s “new” idea for sell side advertising.
It’s been around for a lot longer than you might think.
Here’s how I see it:

I hope you’re not too attached to that TiVo, or your TV for that matter. The government has a plan to nudge consumers into the digital age; but we’re going to have to make a few sacrifices. The CableCard is an actual card-like device that will insert into your TV to provide digital cable. However, [...]

Scientific Americans looks into the human brain, trying to figure out why some events just tend to stick in our memories forever, while the others are gone: “How does a gene “know” when to strengthen a synapse permanently and when to let a fleeting moment fade unrecorded? And how do the proteins encoded by the [...]

There are two keyboard standards today – QWERTY and DVORAK. QWERTY, the one we usually have, was used on the first commercially produced typewriter in 1873. Ironically, QWERTY was actually designed to slow down the typist to prevent jamming the keys, and we’ve been stuck with that layout since. New Standard Keyboards offers new “alphabetical” [...]

The first “map” of teen sexual behavior gives new meaning to the old warning that you don’t just have sex with a person, but with everyone that person ever had sex with, researchers said on Monday.

A computer that learns to play a ’scissors, paper, stone’ by observing and mimicking human players could lead to machines that automatically learn how to spot an intruder or perform vital maintenance work, say UK researchers.

In the world portrayed by New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell in his best seller, “The Tipping Point,” our shopping and consumption habits are tethered to the tastes of people called Connectors.

A chicken called Lucky, that helped its owner pick out winning lottery numbers, has been eaten by a fox.

Dan Bricklin:
Travel this week has given me time to listen to a few hours of podcasts exercising, waiting, flying, etc. The edition I was listening to was from January 14 with guest Adam Bosworth of Google who is a database expert. I really like this series of “shows” by the Gillmor Gang. [...]

Poor women who are physically or sexually abused at some point in their lives are less likely to maintain stable intimate relationships, according to a new study of more than 2,500 women by sociologists from The Johns Hopkins University and Penn State University.