Rich Karlgaard:
1.) • Moore’s Law. Listen to a billionaire explain why an understanding of Moore’s Law is a key to unlocking business riches. Don Valentine founded Sequoia Capital in 1972 and presided over early investments in Apple, Electronic Arts, Cisco, Yahoo and Google.

NASA — NASA will use a new human centrifuge to explore artificial gravity as a way to counter the physiologic effects of extended weightlessness for future space exploration.

Twenty-three years ago, an American philosophy professor named James Flynn discovered a remarkable trend: Average IQ scores in every industrialized country on the planet had been increasing steadily for decades.

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — Wildlife regulators took the first step Tuesday to bar hunters from using the Internet to shoot animals, responding to a Texas Web site that planned to let users fire at real game with the click of a mouse.

Workers are clearing Iowa fields, hoping that if they build it, cars will come. The “it” is a processing plant that turns corn into ethanol, a fuel that is increasingly replacing gasoline today and may help to power the fuel-cell vehicles of tomorrow.

RENO, Nevada (AP) — On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs.

Fed up with the mess created by kitty litter and inspired by the cat “Mr Jinks” in the Hollywood film “Meet the Fockers,” an Australian woman has invented a toilet training system for cats called the “Litter-Kwitter.”

Thomas Frey:
I spent the afternoon today in traffic court in Louisville, CO, and have once again lost respect for our justice system. It’s been 10 years since my last ticket. Apparently I was due.