What happened to mass culture? It seems to have died without anyone
even noticing. You will no doubt remember when there were songs,
television shows, movies and books that most everyone had heard of.
These shared cultural reference points helped us communicate by doing
things like citing an incident from Seinfeld to illustrate a point. Or
Shakespeare, if you are […]

The average man proposes two years, 11 months and eight days after first meeting their love, research has revealed.

2007 was another boom year for
the Internet in the United Kingdom. Almost 37 million people went
online in an average month—that’s over 60% of the population.

stickK is designed to promote a
healthier lifestyle by allowing users to create “Commitment Contracts”
that oblige them to follow through with commitments such as exercise
and quitting smoking.

Weighing in at a mere 20 billion trillion watts per square
centimeter and containing a measly 300 terawatts of power, the
University of Michigan has broken a record with a 1.3-micron speck wide
laser. It’s about two orders of magnitude higher than any other laser
in the world and can perform for 30 femtoseconds once every ten seconds
— some […]

A massive switch from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power plants
to solar power plants could supply 69 percent of the U.S.’s electricity
and 35 percent of its total energy by 2050.

I’m always amazed when one simple photo can put the whole meaning of life into perspective like this one.

Online marketing firm, Hitwise, has published a socioeconomic demographic rundown of Yahoo and Google users. Check out this image.

Seth Godin: 
Many of us want fun and respect and love and success and kindness and hope. What brilliant marketers do is add the =.

From a company called Blue Q, comes this line of products called Total
Bitch. You know you can think of a few people you would love to give one of these to.

A leading futurologist envisions that the speed at which technological
advancements are taking place may lead computer power to be on a par with the
intelligence of human brains in the next two
decades.

Trying to persuade your powerful boss of a new idea? Just forget it. Going
by a new study, he would not listen to you. A team of international
researchers has carried out a study and found that when people feel the power of
their position, they normally tend to ignore new opinion — the reason being
"confidence".