Last year on Feb. 14, Virgin Group Ltd. founder Sir Richard Branson got a provocative e-mail out of the blue. Gotham Chopra, son of self-help guru Deepak Chopra, had a proposal: Branson should team up with Indian entrepreneurs who were running a comics distribution business and create a new global comics and animation powerhouse — [...]

So says Yahoo Music boss David Goldberg, who believes that once the Internet finds its way into cars, CDs and music radio are dead.  These are excerpts from a conversation between David Goldberg, head of Yahoo Music, and Tony Perkins.

Jeff Peckman:  The Colorado House bill on Brain Fingerprinting
testing that would have opened to door for innocent prisoners to be
exonerated in Colorado was killed in the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of
7-4. It was an important, and I would add "historic", effort by Rep. Joe Stengel
to take advantage of a proven, cutting-edge technology that [...]

According to the latest "Online Paid Content U.S. Market Spending Report,"
from the Online
Publishers Association, publsihed by comScore Media Metrix, the average consumer spent more than
$100 last year on online content, creating a $2 billion market in 2005. Great stats.

There is a real art to transforming women from their "wake-up" face to the brilliantly sculpted materpiece that we meet in the office next door.  This amazing photo series shows us the transformation.

We’ve seen condominiums offer numerous perks to attract different demographics before — gyms for the fitness-minded, hot tubs for the party-minded, laundry services for the dirty and lazy — but we’ve never heard of one playing up a feature to target allergy sufferers.

Older adults may have to work harder than young people to perform the same physical activity, but regular exercise may close that age gap, research findings suggests.

When it comes to sex and romance, aging Canadian baby boomers spend a lot more time watching television or surfing the net, according to a new study.

Police and other criminal investigators in eastern China can tap the country’s first human body odor bank to help their dogs get a nose for criminals, Xinhua news agency said.

A nanotechnologist has created the world’s smallest smiley, a tiny face measuring a few billionths of a metre across assembled from strands of DNA.  Complete with photos.

Here’s an experimental musical keyboard which is a MIDI controller based on relativity.

University of Florida students have designed a sensor they say will help grocers, florists and even pharmacists monitor product quality.

The number of U.S. minority patients undergoing cosmetic plastic surgery last year increased 65 percent, with nearly 2.3 million procedures performed.