According to a new CNN poll, 54% of the public believes that it is impossible for most people in the U.S. to achieve the American dream.

Thomas Frey, senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute steps out on the edge again and fills us in with what he calls, Fractal Transactions, Launching a New Era in the Future of Money. 

No wonder our percetion of beauty is so distorted.  This video pretty much says it all.

The human body is unsurpassed in the complexity of its design, performance and efficiency, but there are definite limitations to what we can achieve with a frame that’s around 6ft high – we can only carry so much weight, jump so far or run so fast before we reach our physical boundary. Machines that overcome [...]

The "Broadband Barometer 2006" report, released by Pacific Internet and gathered by the research firm GfK Marketing Services, shows that 90% of Australia’s small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) — companies with five to 199 employees — now use broadband Internet connections.

Internet users who spread malicious rumours could face fines up to 5,000 yuan (US$625) in Southwest China, under a series of new regulations passed in Chongqing Municipality.

A Chinese university is requiring law and business students to take golf lessons to prepare them for a business world where deals are made on the golf course.

The music industry has launched a fresh wave of 8,000 lawsuits against alleged file-sharers around the world, escalating its drive to stamp out online piracy and encourage the use of legal download services.

Four Italians have constructed what they believe is the world’s first full-sized chocolate igloo but they have yet to solve an age-old problem. It still melts.

When it comes to intelligence, a new survey ranks Arizona dead last among the states.  For the second year in a row, an annual smartest-state ranking puts Arizona in the No. 50 spot.

The teenage dance craze of "freaking" – where couples rub and grind against each other – has been branded as simulated sex by school officials and has led to concern across the nation.

As the U.S. population crossed the 300 million mark sometime around 7:46 a.m. Tuesday (according to the U.S. Census Bureau), the typical family is doing a whole lot better than their grandparents were in 1967, the year the population first surpassed 200 million.

The analysts at Blackfriars Communications are forecasting a fairly bleak year for US marketers — even online marketers. Blackfriars’ second annual sizing of the US marketing market found that 2006 marketing spending dropped to 4.7% of business revenues this year, from 8.9% last year.