Whether natural or artificially concocted, Mabel’s images were making their way onto blogs at an alarming pace. Amazing. Simply amazing.

A dog was admitted to a veterinary clinic in Austria over the weekend, barely able to stand on his own four paws and reeking "like a beer hall," a newspaper reported on Monday.

Engineers at MIT are developing a tiny sensor that could be used to detect minute quantities of hazardous gases, including toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents, much more quickly than current devices.

Animals have become a national obsession. And some of these animals include obsessing about the obsession. Some very funny photos.

Seth Godin:  Most big charities are based on direct mail fundraising, and as you’re read here before, direct mail is dying. What to do?  
I’ll start with the bad news: I despair for most of the top 50
non-profits in the US. These are the big guys, and they’re stuck.
Unlike the Fortune 100, not known for [...]

Piles of corn cobs on Darrin Ihnen’s family
farm would have been considered field waste not too long ago. Now they
represent potential energy. Poet,
a Sioux Falls-based company that has been making ethanol from corn for
more than 20 years, is working with Ihnen and several farm equipment
manufacturers to develop ways to harvest, store and transport cobs that
could [...]

Ever wondered why we sleep? Well, a new study based on the roundworm C. elegans
has provided the answer, by identifying a gene that regulates sleep. The study, led by David M.
Raizen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, stated that the round worm
has a sleep-like state.

Yes, some of the beef-related diseases are quite real, while others are mere fabrications of the anti-beef forces. Here is the latest one in Scientific American.  You decide. (w/pic)

Hypnosis is more than just a party trick — it actually changes how the brain
works, a new study has
revealed.

Gift card sales will increase nearly $14 billion over the next five years, according to Packaged Facts’ "US
Market for Prepaid Cards with a Focus on Gift Cards" report.

Warning! This is a series of very graphic photos of a man being attacked by a polar bear. For adults only.