Food shipments bogged down on their way to starving people
Rapidly increasing world food prices have already led to political upheaval in poor countries. The crisis threatens to tear apart fragile states and become a humanitarian calamity unless countries get their agricultural systems moving.
Now, with conference committee negotiations over the final shape of the Farm Bill […]

 A rift in a relationship can be very emotional.  This researcher
says it ain’t so bad.  We think he’s a crackpot
Breaking up is hard to do, but not as hard as we think.
New research suggests we overestimate the heart-crushing blow from a romantic split, and some of us make particularly inaccurate forecasts.

Automatic Baby Bottom Cleaner
Have you ever seen a kid so dirty you wish you could just tie him up to a tree and spray him down? Or a diaper so messy you just want to grab the kid and repeatedly dipping him into a warm tub filled with soapy water? Unfortunately, the modern tub is […]

 
In Argentina, towels resembling the cover of a Playboy Magazine
are completed when beautiful women lay on them
Playboy is a global brand that entertains men around the world with boobs and blondes. You may think that it does not take much advertising creativity to sell photos of naked women. You would be wrong. Here’s 10 Great […]

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Sometimes a single great idea is worth far more than a very expensive ad
They used a total of 400 coins on this creative floor ad. It lasted 2 weeks. Another funny ad video after the jump.
 

Tattoos always seem like a good idea at the time…
The talented people at Worth1000 have created a number of fascinating galleries dedicated to the topic of “Regrettable Tattoos”. Here are a few.  (Pics)

Yay for Los Angeles! The City of Angels no longer holds the dubious title of the Sootiest City in the United States. That honor is now held by Pittsburgh (though LA is still the most polluted by other measures).The American Lung Association’s State of The Air 2008 report ranked metropolitan areas according to their ozone, […]

DaVinci’s drawings of the brain didn’t quite capture how stupid we get when we get older
Decaying brains, or the fear thereof, have inspired a mini-industry of brain health products — not just supplements like coenzyme Q10, ginseng and bacopa, but computer-based fitter-brain products as well.

Yes, phone rage was fun, but now online rage can be even more fun
A recent Society for New Communications Research study sponsored by Nuance Communications found that consumers are using social media to share their customer experiences and to research the customer service of other companies.
Among the US Internet users surveyed, 59% used social media […]

 No word on what happens when you write a check on this paper and it erases before the bank can process it.
Xerox knows a thing or to about paper, and they’ve come up with self-erasing paper that can be used over and over again. Not erasable, but self-erasing, leaving you with an entirely blank sheet […]

The US finds itself in at an unremarkable 15th place
The US broadband policy environment is characterized on the one hand by market fundamentalists who see little or no role for government, and see government as the problem; and on the other by digital populists who favor a vastly expanded role for government (including government ownership […]

 
Some short robots get all the cool gigs
ASIMO will focus attention on the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s (DSO) nationally acclaimed music programs for young people in Detroit by conducting the orchestra as it performs “Impossible Dream” to open a special concert performance with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Tuesday, May 13. (Pics)

For days when being the hamster is not such a bad option
Developed by both Steelcase, a furniture manufacturer, and James Levine from the Mayo clinic, this treadmill desk allows you to game, work or just look at funny pictures on the internet and “work out” at the same time. The functions should be pretty obvious […]