The students were selling bracelets bearing the motto “1 Shot, 1 Kill, No Remorse, I Decide.”

Rich Karlgaard:
And now for a topic that chills any conversation: tithing. Yeow! Take a dull subject–only life insurance is as boring–and combine it with cloying guilt. That’s tithing.

Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they’ve become a force business can’t afford to ignore.

In terms of their size and sensitivity, nanoscale devices offer the potential for interacting with single molecules. Nanoscale mechanical devices enable us to measure the forces that bind biomolecules — for example, an antibody to an antigen — on the scale of the individual hydrogen bonds involved.

Are brands back? Well, yes and no. It’s not that the doomsayers were all wrong. Media are becoming infinitely more complex.

Daniel Pink:
A funny thing happened while we were pressing our noses to the grindstone: The world changed. The future no longer belongs to people who can reason with computer-like logic, speed, and precision. It belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind.

Los Alamos scientist Steen Rasmussen plans to one-up nature by cobbling together a brand-new creature that reproduces and evolves. Is he making a biotech marvel that will do our bidding, or a test-tube-size Frankenstein monster?

A study suggesting abstinence-only education courses do not curb teenage sexual activity has reignited the debate over such programs in the US.

A research report saying when young drivers “talk on cell phones they drive like elderly people, moving and reacting more slowly and increasing their risk of accidents,” obviously did not look at the driver safety records for 2003 released last month, which show older drivers are far less likely to be in an accident than [...]

Ebay CEO Elon Musk says “A Ferrari is a very expensive car. It is not reliable. But I would bet you 1,000-to-1 that if you bought a Honda Civic that that sucker will not break down in the first year of operation. You can have a cheap car that’s reliable, and the same applies to [...]