The economics of living together

In the United States cohabitation is an increasingly prevalent lifestyle. The number of 30- to 44-year-olds living as unmarried couples has more than doubled since the mid-1990s. Adults with lower levels of education — without college degrees — are twice as likely to cohabit as those with college degrees. A...

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cbi probe protest, 29 Andhra legislators loyal to Jagan to resign

Twenty-nine Andhra Pradesh legislators loyal to YSR Congress party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy have decided to resign to protest the inclusion of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's name in the complaint registered by the CBI in a case against his son. Rallying behind Jaganmohan, who is...

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PETA to launch ‘porn’ website

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is all set to draw the attention of millions of internet surfers when they launch their own ‘porn website’. According to the Herald Sun, the animal rights group will use some obvious changes to internet domain names in order to register themselves...

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England apply maths to keep Sachin silent. how?

A mathametician's plan and modern technology have helped England keep Sachin Tendulkar's bat quiet in the ongoing Test series against the Indian cricket team, according to reports. England has relied on drawing Tendulkar outside his offstump in the early part of his innings rather than let him get...

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Who can challenge Apple? india is ready

The sudden demise of Hewlett-Packard Co's WebOS TouchPad after just seven weeks on shelves was a reminder of how tech giants have failed so far to take a bite out of Apple Inc's iPad. The TouchPad joins Dell Streak 5 in the tablet graveyard and weak sales for many offerings suggest others are bound...

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what are possible outcomes of Anna’s movement?

The success of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare’s protests could be both encouraging and ominous. Whether the benefits accruing out of Hazare’s movement will outweigh some inherent risks will be known in the coming days, maybe months. To the thousands rallying behind him, this is renewal of Gandhism,...

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Candle flames contain millions of tiny diamonds

Scientists have shown that each flickering candle flame contains ‘millions of tiny diamonds that are created and disappear in the blink of an eye’. Roughly 1.5million of the twinkling gems are created every second. Sadly, for those whose eyes are lighting up the thought of making a fortune, the jewels...

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Scientists reverse evolution to create chickens that grow alligator-like snouts

Altering the DNA of chicken embryos can give them qualities they lost millions of years ago. Chickens and other birds are thought to have descended from dinosaurs through a series of genetic changes. Scientists have rewound 65 million years of evolutionary history by tweaking chicken DNA to create...

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Free artificial intelligence class

If you’ve ever been drawn to the idea of artificial intelligence, Stanford University School of Engineering is giving out the opportunity to learn how to build software that “reasons about the world around it.” The free class is as challenging as courses given to Stanford students and starts on October...

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Dabbawalas on first-ever strike today to back Hazare

Mumbai's dabbawalas will for the first time break their 120-year-old tradition of delivering tiffins on Friday as they go on a day-long strike in support of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement. "We have decided to call it a strike as we want to show our support to Anna Hazare's jan lokpal bill. He is fighting for the cause of the common man and...

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Men believe in love at first sight, not women

One in five men has claimed to have fallen in love at first sight, with more than half of them saying they are smitten with a partner after only one meeting, according to a new survey. Nearly three-quarters of men had lost their hearts within three dates. In contrast, only one in 10 women said they had experienced love at first sight. Most waited...

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73-year-old strikes a chord with GenY

They are young, highly impressionable and make no bones about their liking and support for 73-year-old anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare. The enthusiasm generated by Hazare's anti-corruption movement among the members of GenY in the Capital is evident from their active participation in school activities as well as in those taken up on a purely individual...

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Anna blurs class-mass divide

On Day 1 some protested, most watched. On Day 2 more and more protested, and everyone watched. Disparate groups across the country were united on Wednesday by one common urge – to protest. The number of students, lawyers, theatre artistes, government employees, NGOs, trade unions out on the streets continued to swell. In Mumbai, authorities unofficially...

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Russian company to launch world’s first space hotel by 2016

The Russian firm, Orbital Technologies, has revealed plans for a space hotel.  The space hotel could be open to greet intergalactic tourists by 2016. The orbital outpost, which will have room for seven guests in four cabins, will also serve as a hub for scientific research as well as commercial...

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The differences between iPhone people and Droid people

You are an iPhone person if you know what movie this girl is in. Hunch.com, a recommendations engine,  analyzed data from 700,000 users to break down the differences between iPhone people and Droid people. 32% of respondents were iPhone people, 21% Droid people, and the rest were either BlackBerry...

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Watching an hour of tv can shorten your life 22 minutes

Watching 60 minutes of  is like smoking two cigarettes. After the age of 25, watching an hour of TV can shorten the viewer’s life by just under 22 minutes, according to researchers in Australia. The AFP news agency said scientists at the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland...

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China’s one-child policy a boon for Chinese girls

Mia Wang, a freshman at Tsinghua University has confidence to spare.  Asked what her home city of Benxi in China’s far northeastern tip is famous for, she flashes a cool smile and says: “Producing excellence. Like me.” A Communist Youth League member at one of China’s top science universities,...

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China speeds past India's train to Himalayas

The struggle to build a railway to troubled Kashmir has become a symbol of the infrastructure gap with neighbouring China, whose speed in building road and rail links is giving it a strategic edge on the mountainous frontier. Nearly quarter of a century after work began on the project aimed at integrating the revolt-torn territory and bolstering the...

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Anna's net effect!

On the Internet, Anna has created, brewed, stirred, and let loose a storm. By Tuesday afternoon, there were more than 500 pages at last count dedicated to the 74-year-old mass leader and his anti-corruption campaign on the social networking site Facebook. By noon, one Anna Hazare page was liked by 2,11,084 individuals while another was liked by 80,089....

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Meet the backroom boys who power Anna's campaign against corruption

Many young people have left their regular activities to collaborate full-time in a high-tech back-up to Anna Hazare's anti-corruption crusade and taking it to the youth. Already, a group of eight from varied backgrounds has been working 16 hours a day: these backroom people, who have joined Arvind...

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How Facebook & Twitter lent support to Anna Hazare's movement

Off the streets of India, another protest is gathering support as the social networking websites go bizarre with increasing support to Anna Hazare with people tweeting and updating their Facebook status. The people are terming the situation as 'emergency-part 2'. The Bollywood fraternity, extending...

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Anna taken to Tihar jail, home to scamsters and criminals

Anti corruption campaigner Anna Hazare will share space with A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi both accused in the high-profile scams in Tihar jail. "Anna Hazare has been lodged in jail number four where Suresh kalmadi and Kalaignar TV managing director Sharad Kumar is lodged," deputy inspector general (Tihar)...

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Spotted! Six months pregnant Aishwarya

Aishwarya Rai, whose pregnancy has made headlines, was spotted looking radiant at the sets of a commercial for Lux. Looking stunning in a Manish Malhotra gown, the six months pregnant actress showed off her baby bump. Buzz is that the diva wrapped up her shoot and joined hubby Abhishek Bachchan in...

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Teenage bikini model is pregnant at 15

Many outraged parents wrote to Soya Keaveney's mom, Janis, about how her careless parenting is fuellling the teenager's unnatural desire to be a model. At 12, Soya Keaveney was a rather well known bikini model. Now she is 15. And pregnant with her 17-year-old boyfriend's child. Janis is a jobless...

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A 4,000 mph underwater trans-atlantic train

Despite a 5 hour time difference you could have lunch in Manhattan and still get to London in time for the theater with the help of a 4,000 mph magnetically levitated train. “It’s not impossible: Norway has studied neutrally buoyant tunnels (concluding that they’re feasible, though expensive), and...

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Smile Cooking Toaster brightens your mornings

Do you start your mornings with a smile from your toast? Even though they may be a little quirky , small gimmicks like this can really make a difference in your day. Bring out your shiny smile for the Smile Cooking Toaster! Think hair straightening iron for a moment, similar to that clasp design is...

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British scientists develop computer memory made of glass

The glass memory has been compared to the ‘memory crystals’ used in the Superman films. Soon computers may be saving their data onto hard drives made of glass following research by British scientists who have developed a way of storing information similar to the “memory crystals” seen in the Superman films. Researchers at Southampton University used...

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The 5 Most Expensive Beers in the World

When you think of Beer, a lot of the time you’re considering it as a cheap alternative. It won’t get you drunk as fast as liquor and you have to drink a whole lot of it. But, a Bud Light on certain nights goes for like $3 a pop, so why the fuck not? Of course, there’s always the slightly more...

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B-town celebs condemn Hazare's detention

Lyricist Javed Akhtar says it is “undemocratic”, while for actor Anupam Kher, it's the "saddest day in Indian democracy" -- several Bollywood celebrities are disappointed with the government's decision to detain civil society activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday before he could begin a protest fast in support of a strong Lokpal Bill. Hazare, 74, was arrested...

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Anna fasts in custody, continues '2nd freedom struggle'

Hours before he was to launch his fast against corruption, Anna Hazare was today detained by Delhi Police here preventing him from going ahead with his protest. Two other prominent activists Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia were also taken into preventive custody, Delhi Police said. Bedi...

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Fossilized pregnant dinosaur may present first evidence of live birth

This fossilized Polycotylus latippinus, a carnivorous marine reptile that lived 78 million years ago, contains a smaller, less developed skeleton inside of her. Scientists are therefore speculating that this creature did not lay eggs like other dinosaurs, but gave birth to live young… If true, then...

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Women are less prone to heart attacks than men: study

Why are women said to be less vulnerable to heart attacks as compared to men? Well, it’s the sex hormone estrogen which protects females, says a new study. Future Trend Report Researchers at the University of London have found that this naturally occurring chemical helps stop blood cells sticking...

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Kids today not as creative as they used to be

A creativity researcher scoured 300,000 creativity tests going back to the 1970s and found that kids these days are narrow-minded and just not as creative as they used to be.  But researchers say they are finding exactly that. In a 2010 study of about 300,000 creativity tests going back to the...

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