According to a NewsWeek article, oxygen deprivation doesn’t kill patients as much as the resumption of oxygen does. This discovery could bring about new ways of resuscitating people whose hearts have stopped."

Teens 17 and older are more than twice as likely to adopt new technologies as younger teens, according to JupiterResearch’s "Teens and New Technology: Understanding the Adoption Cycle" report.

Even though the "nice" investments are scoring gains as doomsday alarms about the environment continue to sound, they’re no match for stocks in the so-called vice industries – defense, casinos, alcohol, tobacco, oil and gas – which are outpacing the one-year gains of their nice counterparts.

More than 150 million homes worldwide will have an HDTV set by the end of 2011, according to Informa Telecoms & Media’s "HDTV: A Global Analysis" report. That is three times the number of sets worldwide at the end of 2006.

College diversity questioned after study shows that a large percentage of blacks at colleges are immigrants. Silly universities, not picking the "right" blacks.

Wikipedia, the people’s encyclopedia, is a multilingual, million-entry fount of knowledge from Britney to Byzantium that has lately become the elitists’ favorite whipping boy. Unreliable, they say. Easily tampered with. Incoherent. Out of control. A demolition derby of ideologies, driven by reckless amateurs and cybergeeks with too much time on their hands. And yet, when [...]

America is rated the world’s most unfriendly destination for foreign travellers in a recent global poll. The War on Terror (which includes a $15 billion fingerprinting program that humiliates every visitor to America’s shores and has yet to catch a single terrorist) has destroyed America’s tourist industry, killing $94 billion worth of tourist trade, and [...]

Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.

Ladies can replace that monthly period with an exclamation mark as feminine hygiene goes lethal with The Pink Stinger, a taser/stun gun creatively disguised as a tampon…except for the buttons, prods and high voltage.

If you’re sick of fishing wires inside walls, Flatwire is so flat you can stick it on the wall and paint over it, and its manufacturer says you can’t even tell it’s there.  (w/pics)

According to a new report lesbians are twice as likely as heterosexual women to be overweight or obese.

A recent competition at Worth1000 rewarded people for the best way to illustrate "before & after".  Here are some amazing pieces of art…

Sitting in a cafe near the Champs Elysees, the 26-year-old French-born woman of Algerian descent looks like any other Parisian. But two months ago, she did something none of her friends have done. She had her hymen re-sewn, technically making her a virgin again.

Six teams are cracking their knuckles and getting ready to compete in the first ever Astronaut Glove Challenge, one of NASA’s Centennial Challenges. The goal of the $250,000 competition, which will be held on 2 and 3 May, is to spur innovation to design more flexible spacesuit gloves.

Negative emotions such as the fear of losing money affects young and old people differently, suggests a new study based on brain scans.

It could be the answer to many women’s prayers – not to mention men’s. A wonder pill has been developed which not only boosts a female’s sex drive, but helps her lose weight at the same time.

New Year’s Day is called that because it begins a new year, and Thanksgiving has that name because it’s an occasion for expressing gratitude. But Equal Pay Day, observed this year on April 24, is named for something that, we are told, doesn’t exist — equal pay for men and women.