Rich Karlgaard:
There’s hype and there’s skype. The difference is about $4.1 billion, which is what Ebay paid for the voice over Internet company last month. Skype is, like Ebay itself, cheap and easy to use.

The Atlantic hurricane season may produce two more hurricanes in October, adding to what is already one of the busiest and most destructive seasons on record, a noted forecaster predicted on Monday.

Two Australians won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for showing that a bacterium rather than stress causes stomach inflammation and ulcers, after one of them drank a witches’ brew of bacteria to prove the point.

Sherry Dean has a secret she’s been keeping from her drivers since March — their Upshur County school buses are running on an alternative fuel made of vegetable oil and diesel.

A photo in Ray Kurzweil’s new book about humanity’s future shows the author wearing a sandwich board that reads “The Singularity Is Near.”

Geri Agalia doesn’t appear to leave less of a data trail than most Americans. She has a phone in her name, a bank account, utility bills, a mortgage and a credit card. But the stay-at-home mom and part-time student is among a select and ever-shrinking group of the digitally privileged — her name does not [...]

Plastic will survive forever in landfill, or, if it is burnt, as it is in Japan, it can release toxic and carcinogenic particles into the atmosphere.
But a small Australian company called Plantic says it has a solution — just add water and the problem will disappear in front of your eyes.

The First Basic Law of Human Stupidity asserts without ambiguity that
“Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

You’re one tough guy. You ain’t got no place for no girly Band-Aids. Hell, you get cut, you get cut. If it bleeds, it bleeds. You got nails to hammer, two by fours to cut and cement to pour. There’s just no way you’re going to be seen wearing a Band-Aid.
Unless it’s a Duct Tape [...]

A molecule has been designed to move in a straight line on a flat surface by closely mimicking human walking.