About 150,000 people a year are failing to turn up for court appearances in England and Wales, the Magistrates’ Association has said.

With aging, it’s become a routine faithfully endured by the Guffords. Each day starts with a blood sugar check and a shot of insulin. Then a couple of pills, maybe mashed into a bowl of tuna and canned carrots. Mixed with dry chow. All for their 12-year-old dog.

Researchers reported Sunday that a hormone produced by the body in response to stress, that normally serves to calm adults and younger children, instead increases anxiety in adolescents.

Ernest Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent people and of unhappiness. He lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, four wives and an unknown number of failed romantic relationships, none of which would help him to develop happiness if he knew how.

Video game console penetration increased to 45.7 million homes in the fourth quarter of 2006, representing 41.1% of all TV households, according to Nielsen Media Research.

The evolution of the Computer Human interface may seem to be rooted in the infernal keyboard and its recent travelling companion, the mouse, but much work is being done in the areas of virtual worlds, voice recognition, handwriting recognition and gesture recognition to give us a new paradigm of computing.

Using dead chickens to generate electricity probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind in terms of alternative energy.

Sometimes you need the help of the butter from dark overlord to clean up your act…one tablespoon at at time.

You can carry this BBQ in your pocket. It doesn’t require any tools to assemble, is easy to clean, and takes about 2 minutes to set up. It’s pretty much the most awesome man-gift we’ve come across recently.

Sometimes dumb sounds cute: Sixty percent of Americans can’t name five of the Ten Commandments, and 50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married. But Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, isn’t laughing. Americans’ deep ignorance of world religions — their own, their neighbors’ or the combatants in [...]

Have you evenr wanted to remodel your house and giveit more of a space-age look?  Well now you can – with the help of what may be the world’s first SciFi interior design firm called 24th Century Design.