Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

I went to see the midnight showing of "Watchmen" tonight, even though I didn't really know anything about it.  I've never read the book, nor have I even done any preliminary reading to make sure I'm not lost.  So why would I go to see the movie, given the lateness of the hour and such? &nb...

Expensive carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects are gaining momentum around the world as a way to combat greenhouse gas emissions (or is that sweep them under the carpet?), India’s Economic Times has reported that a team of Indian scientists have discovered a naturally occurring bacteria that ...

http://www.dailyiowan.com/2009/02/23/Opinions/10192.html The Gaza offensive: an Israeli tradition BY PATRICK HITCHON | FEBRUARY 23, 2009 7:30 AM On April 10, 1948, the New York Times reported on the massacre of the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin thus: “200 Arabs killed, stronghold taken. A com...

Posted by timothy (50% noise) View Skip blackbearnh writes “If you’ve gotten tired of hacking firewalls or cloud computing, maybe it’s time to try your hand with DNA. That’s what Reshma Shetty is doing with her Doctorate in Biological Engineering from MIT. Apart from her crow...

(Part 2 of 8 in "Three Worlds Collide") The Lord Pilot jumped up, then, his face flushed.  "Put up shields.  Now.  We don't gain anything by leaving them down.  This is madness!" "No," said the Ship's Confessor in professional tones, &quo...

The difference between a pitch and the next stage of the development process—a proposal—is story. A proposal must demonstrate that your pitch has “legs� by providing a more specific outline of events, additional background on the characters, and some sample plots. As with most every document...

During a segment on Friday’s Newsroom program, CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen heralded the FDA’s approval of the first human clinical trial involving embryo-destroying stem cell research. Cohen then gave a soft interview of the president and CEO of the company involved in the t...

It's bad enough when my eating habits conflict with my health -- but I can deal with that. Sometimes, a steaming plate of really good Buffalo wings is worth a few months off your lifespan. What would I do in my eighties, anyway? Sit around gumming my dentures and wishing I'd just once enjoyed the si...

Background You Bar/You Shake was started in Aug. 2007 by a mom and son team (she's a snowboard instructor, he's a marathon runner) who were fed up with off-the-shelf nutrition bars that didn't cut it.  The idea is to build your own nutrition bar or protein shake online the way you ...