How did the '80s become a punchline? Give anything 20 years and it'll start to look like the makings of a joke. And so -- welcome back to the '80s, or, as LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge put it, borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered '80s. You don'...
Why You Should Bike to Work This Week Cyclists cite lots of reasons for trading in the car, bus or train for a two-wheel commute: a good workout, a minuscule carbon footprint, fewer worries about finding a parking space -- but one of the most-enticin...
Chinese Want Electric Cars, Americans Not So Much Citizens of which country are most likely to buy or at least consider purchasing a plug-in vehicle than any other nation? According to a recent survey conducted by Ernst Young's Global Automotive Cent...
10 Things I Learned While Living Without Running Water My wife and I recently endured fifteen days of living without running water while a new well was being drilled on our property. If I was a more conscientious blogger, I suppose I would have chron...
Tired of Vacationing on Earth? Go on space rides for $102,00 An American space tourism company that arranges multimillion-dollar treks to the International Space Station for the ultra-wealthy has struck a new deal to offer suborbital spaceflights for...
In the tech world, porn quietly leads the way It was just days after the release of the iPad -- Apple's slate computer heralded as a tool for gaming, book and magazine reading and Web consumption -- when the announcement arrived. One of the world's b...
Teen Girls Average 80 Texts Per Day Mobile phone use in teens is currently at a very high rate and most of those teen users spend more time texting than they spend talking on their devices. Unfortunately, texting has become such an integrated part of...
Cant Concentrate? Spring Fever Isnt Just a Catchphrase Its April, and all the telltale signs are present: You cant concentrate to save your life, youve got a rapidly blossoming crush on a coworker you didnt look twice at all winter, and instead of hi...
How To Save on Groceries By Growing Your Own Getting food from your own backyard can beat the supermarket any day, on both taste and price. Think thats too much work? Youd be surprised. You dont need to have a green thumb or a massive backyard to pla...
The Amazing Media Habits Of 8-18 Year Olds Kids are leading the world's transition to digital media. This is in part because kids aren't afraid of technology, and, in part, because kids haven't spent years getting use to anything else. So if you want...
9 Tips For Better Sleep Whenever I see a toddler or small animal sleeping in a ridiculous position, a little part of me gets terribly jealous. Not because I want to be a small child or a furry kitten. Because I want to enjoy that same sort of rest! I...
Are you living consciously in an unconscious world? You may have noticed that our world is something of a chaotic place lately. Loud. Noisy. Frantic. Angry. Violent. Fearful. Just watch the news. Actually, dont. And by world, I mean the physical worl...
Are You Ready for 3-D Everything? If those monsters pissing off Sam Worthington this weekend have anything to say about it, we'd better prepare for Snooki, Scorsese, and those damn teenage vampires jumping straight out at a depraved American curiosit...
Nearly third of children globally are couch potatoes American children aren't the only couch potatoes with nearly one third of children globally spending three hours a day or more watching TV or on computers, according to study of over 70,000 teens i...
10 Tips on How to Be Your Own Boss Working for yourself comes with plenty of benefits, one of which is working without having a boss breathing down your neck and stressing you out. However, what many people who go into business for themselves dont re...
