Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey.
While most people think journalism is important to the quality of life, 64 percent are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism in their communities, a We Media/Zogby [...]

 
High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids don’t start school until age 7.
Yet by one international measure, Finnish [...]

Truck accidents are a daily occurrence, but only a few times a year do they actually make headline news. The people at truckspills.com have done a great job of capturing all the details.  After reviewing tons of stories, the Impact Lab team has selected these 10 as being the most interesting.

 
Snoring can cause more than a disrupted night’s sleep – it may trigger high blood pressure which can lead to heart disease or even a stroke.
Researchers at Semmelweis University in Budapest in Hungary have carried out a study and found that loud snoring with breathing pauses is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

This is an 8200cc Monster of a Bike. It’s like riding a 2-wheeled Train Engine.
Do read the specification below. Mindblowing…

Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope — a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe.

Ever since scientists first figured out how to make carbon nanotubes-tiny cylinders of carbon with diameters of a few tens of nanometers-they’ve been touted as the material of the future: as strong as steel but far lighter, with the ability to conduct electricity in useful ways. The problem is that because they’re so small, [...]

Urgency! It’s a concept so few people grasp any more.
 
The following images are intended to insult your intelligence, again, and again, and again.

This unusual man makes a fashionably bold statement by recycling old materials into clothes! Not exactly sure how comfortable they are, but they are unique.

The geoduck or gooyduck is the largest species of clams on the face of the earth. The clam itself is 15 to 20 cm long, which is pretty big but the really impressive part is its long siphon that often reaches one meter in length. it weighs between 0.5 and 1.5 kilograms, but there have [...]

For the first time, researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated that microscopic “two-faced” spheres whose halves are physically or chemically different – so-called Janus particles – will move like stealthy submarines when an alternating electrical field is applied to liquid surrounding the particles.

Just when you thought you knew a thing or two about the future, a person like Neil Gershenfeld comes along and makes you feel like you’ve been living in ancient Egypt. This is truly amazing.
In this video MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab — a low-cost lab that lets people build [...]

What a great way to have fun with your hamster. Just shred 3-4 reams of paper and watch the little guy dig his way through the near solid block of paper.

 
In it’s closed position, while you’re carrying it around, the MagPul FMG9 is designed to look something like a portable radio, and incorporates a detachable tactical white light.
The FMG9 mini-SMG is very slickly designed and looks like a fully-developed product, which is particularly impressive considering that, according to our understanding at present, the MagPul [...]