Mexican brides and grooms who get cold feet before walking down the aisle will have to pay their significant other for the inconvenience, if a proposal by a local congressman is adopted.
In Mexico, weddings are big social events where large amounts of money are spent before the big day on gowns, tuxedos, catering and music […]

Where you live makes a big difference in how long you live.  After the jump is a list of countries ranked by life expectancy.

 
Two security researchers demonstrated a way to crack cellular phone encryption during this week’s Black Hat security conference in DC:

This is amazing: more than a mile below the surface of the Antarctic waters, scientists have discovered a world of huge worms, giant jellyfish, and spiders as big as dinner plates!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnVFnKaXIYM

Eskilstunarevyn, a Swedish comedy group, played Bach’s Air using … 31 (beer?) bottles! The bottles were filled with different volumes of water in order for each to produce a distinct note.
via Neatorama

 
Furious Muslims have heavily criticized Walkers crisps after it emerged that certain varieties of the manufacturer’s products contain trace elements of alcohol.
Some crisp types use minute amounts of alcohol as a chemical agent to extract certain flavors.
The report in Asian newspaper Eastern Eye, highlights concerns raised by shopkeeper Besharat Rehman, who owns a halal supermarket […]

Gatorade erodes teeth faster than Coke, a new study shows.
That doesn’t mean that Gatorade and other sports drinks are necessarily harder on your teeth than are Coke and other soft drinks. But it may be a surprise that they aren’t any better, either, says researcher Leslie A. Ehlen, a student at the […]

Electronics giant Philips is all set to create a sensor bed that keeps a close watch on the health of heart failure patients, a project being funded by the European Union.
One of the aims of the ‘My Heart’ project is to help spot heart problems several days before they become life […]

Italian car designer Leonardo Fioravanti (who worked for Pininfarina for a number of years) has developed a car prototype without windshield wipers. This amazing technological feat is made possible thanks to the use of 4 layers of glass modified using nanotechnology. The first layer filters the sun and repels the water. The second layer, […]