Thomas Frey: I had a chance to see the latest Philip K Dick movie "Next" and the idea-rich plot that will, in my opinion, have a way of surely energizing and inspiring the deep thinkers among us.

Seth Godin: Smart marketers already know that marketing is more than advertising. Here’s one tactic that might be overlooked: time.

Postcards from 1900 speculating what life would be like in the year 2000. While they nailed the escalator and did pretty well on the TV, I’m still waiting for my Weather Dominator.

For the first time ever, online bill payments surpassed paper checks among Internet households, according to a CheckFree report titled "The 2007 Consumer Bill Payment Survey."

Beautiful hair can enhance the looks of even the plainest woman. So is the true test of a woman’s beauty what she looks like without any? Check out these amazing photos and you decide.

Teens are issued a provisional drivers license for one year before getting a real drivers license. During that time, they’re not supposed to have other minors in the car. So now they’re putting their friends in the trunk – also known as "trunking".

Unisex lavatories – with blurred glass walls – could help in the battle against school bullies, government guidelines for England suggest.

U.S. scientists have devised a way to make electronic devices based on a property of electrons called spin, rather than just their electric charge.

A U.S. psychologist says children learn more from their peers than from their parents.

Yves Rossy, recently achieved a landmark which went largely unheralded. Rossy’s feats might well go down among the most daring as well as momentous in aviation history. Check out these amazing photos.

Thomas Sowell: Someone recently said that mass shootings, such as those at Virginia Tech or Columbine High School, are largely a phenomenon of the 1960s and afterwards. If so, these tragedies can be added to the long list of disastrous consequences of the heady notions and extravagant rhetoric of that decade. What was there in the [...]

According to an article at New Scientist, DARPA is developing a plasma shield that would allow troops to stun and disorientate enemies. The system will use a technology known as dynamic pulse detonation (DPD), which involves producing a ball of plasma with an intense laser pulse creates, and then a supersonic shockwave within the plasma [...]

We don’t quite know what to make of this story but the people in China are flocking to see a pet cat which has reportedly given birth to a puppy. (w/pic)

DARPA now has their first prototype done, and they say they’re on track to "provide, by 2009, a mechanical arm that closely mimics the properties and sensory perception of a biological limb." (w/pics)

A 143-year-old Beijing roast duck restaurant may be closing for renovations but it is not about to let its ovens go cold.

This piano piece was created by assigning notes to the digits 0 through 9 in the constant known as pi.

Gartner predicts that 80% of active Internet users and Fortune 500 companies will have an avatar or presence in a virtual environment like Second Life by the end of 2011.

Social networking increases Internet usage, according to a Marketing Evolution study commissioned by MySpace called "Never Ending Friending."

On April 26, 2007, World Intellectual Property Day, a total of 120,000 illegal discs were destroyed in a public show in China.  (w/pics)

With a tiny, high-tech scale, researchers can now weigh living bacteria and immune cells for the first time.

About one in five adults in monogamous relationships, or 22 percent, have cheated on their current partner. The rate is even higher among married men. And nearly half of people admit to being unfaithful at some point in their lives, according to the results of an MSNBC survey.

The $100 laptop introduced by Nicholas Negroponte as part of the One Laptop Per Child program will end up costing $175, Associated Press says. The demand for the program is apparent as ’seven nations have expressed interest in being in the initial wave to buy the little green-and-white "XO" computers — Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, [...]

A Leicester man is hoping to walk into the record books after pulling a passenger jet with his ears.

This is cool! Using software from GestureTech, your phone’s camera senses motion the way an optical mouse’s sensor does, though the emphasis is twisting rather than linear tracking. The dart board appears on the screen, essentially on a virtual wall in front of you. Your job is to twist around until you’ve got the dart board [...]

Microsites, viral games and viral video have become the weapons of choice for seasoned marketers waging "explosive growth" campaigns, according to Marketing Sherpa’s "2007 Viral Marketing Survey."