Bill Clinton said he felt others’ pain. But a new brain-scanning study suggests that when guys see a cheater get a mild electric shock, they don’t feel his pain much at all. In fact, they rather enjoy it.

The world’s first elevators controlled by magnetic levitation will debut as early as 2008, a Tokyo-based company said Tuesday.

A South African inventor has developed an anti-malaria wristwatch to help combat one of Africa’s biggest killers by monitoring the blood of those who wear it and sounding an alarm when the parasite is detected.

Type any numbers to start your search, or use backspace to widen it. You can also zoom in to get a better view of surrounding zip codes. Semi-useful and something to keep you occupied.

The Levitating Wireless Lightbulb explores two phenomena I find interesting, the stabilization of unstable systems using feedback, and wireless power transmission. Cool photo.

Spiders, centipedes and scorpion-like critters are among the 27 new animal species that biologists have discovered in the dark, damp caves of two Central California national parks, officials announced Tuesday.

This dude takes a picture of himself every day.  What a dork!

Cory Doctorow:  In his 1990 manifesto, "The Age of Intelligent Machines," Ray Kurzweil persuasively argued that we were on the brink of meaningful machine intelligence. A decade later, he continued the argument in a book called The Age of Spiritual Machines, whose most audacious claim is that the world’s computational capacity has been slowly doubling […]

Selena Maranjian:  If you find yourself in need of more money, you may have considered some of the following options: getting another job, starting to invest (or invest more effectively), buying lottery tickets, or embarking on a life of crime. But you may not have thought about selling stock in yourself.

Rich Karlgaard:  Where would the U.S. space program be today if run not by NASA bureaucrats but by Silicon Valley geeks and financiers–by crazy entrepreneurs?