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With the economy in dire straits and unemployment soaring, could Anna Wintour have some helpful advice?
"A planet census suggests that there are 50bn with the same mass as Earth and that around a fifth of these have liquid water."
"If Israel refuses to implement a settlement freeze in keeping with international law.. the answer is to hold Israel accountable to what a just and lasting peace demands."
"(The U. S.) government is ignoring what is likely to become the single greatest threat to the health of Americans: Alzheimer’s disease, an illness that is 100 percent incurable."
"Why aren't there more women math professors? Or engineering professors, or physics professors, or professors of computer science or economics?" Is motherhood be to blame?
"Unlike most claims from politicians that intellectual property only provides benefits, (the Vatican) notes that the economic research is 'contradictory.'
"Is the new crop of hyperrealistic military video games driving home the reality of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, or simply exploiting them?"
"The big discovery has been that depressed patients who have proven most resistant to traditional treatments...seem to have particularly high rates of inflammation."
Unable to handle the pressure to pick more and more cotton, in October 2008, Umida Donisheva, a 17-year-old girl, hung herself from a tree on the edge of a cotton field.
"A physicist needs to decide what features of the problem are relevant and which features can be ignored, how to represent the problem in different ways..."
"Pig manure can pave our streets—and a path to cleaner energy." The Atlantic reports on a new machine that converts excrement into bio-oil and liquid fertilizer.
"The time taken to 'fall in love' clocks in at about one-fifth of a second, not the six months of romantic dinners and sharing secrets some might expect."
The prolific and award-winning Canadian writer designs superhero costumes for alter-egos of two of her readers—as well as a chilling enemy 'the Paniac'.
"Leaked photos purporting to show a Sony Ericsson handset combined with a PlayStation Portable games console have appeared online." The Telegraph reports.
"My team at the U.K. Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge has come up with the ultimate test of intelligence," says Adrian Owen.
If you are a startup looking for investors, stay as close to home as possible. Forbes' Maureen Farrell says fundraising rounds will be shorter and less frequent if you do.
"Policy doesn't swing very wildly when government changes hands." The Economist's Iowa correspondent says midterm elections are more about coalitions than zero-sum games.
The prolonged debate over net neutrality threatens to retard development of strong U.S. broadband lines while countries like Japan and South Korea plow ahead.
"Having at least one female sibling makes us happier and less prone to depression, especially if our parents were divorced. This effect seems to persist into adulthood."
"A new advance in recording and interpreting brain activity will open the door to machines that could record and play back your dreams," say U.C.L.A. neurology researchers.