Many thanks to Sean for providing this back-of-the-envelope calculation, which estimates how high Dean Gokel's "pigoline" generator flew during the explosion chronicled first here then...

"In the time of Henry Luce, information wasn't dispersed as quickly. Now, everyone has turned into a news reporter," said Harold Vogel, president of Vogel Capital Management in New York....

How bad is television these days? So bad that despite our 400 channels, astronomers have decided to scan the heavens for better shows. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...

At any given time, 10,000 to 15,000 people are plugged into Second Life, the virtual world populated by users' digital alter-egos. As Scott mentioned last week, those avatars take up real space on...

Ten minutes into the New Year I was reminded of what primitive times we live in. My wife and I were at a party in Washington, DC. We each split off from the other guests and called friends and...