The Law of Unintended Consequences March 6, 2009 By John Mauldin Unintended Consequences The I-Factor Rating Agencies Gone Wild Knights to the Rescue ~~~ Rules have consequences. And sometimes they have unintended consequences. If I told you that the US government was going to give multiple tens of ...

Tynita Butts fails to clear her goal of 5 feet 10 inches in the high jump, but still wins the event at the Virginia AAA Track and Field championships with a 5-9....

By John Addison. American’s rise to tough challenges. This recession is hitting people hard. Transportation is 20 percent, or more, of many people’s expenses. American’s are finding smart ways to save. Public transportation use is at its highest in over 50 years. Commute program participation ...

Much of the success of modern personal computers can be boiled down to a few basic concepts: modularity, standardization, and off-the-shelf components. Hard drives fit into standard-sized slots, connect to motherboards via nearly ubiquitous, industry-standard connections, etc. Now, genetic engineers...

People who stay cool in a crisis may be natural born heroes, according to psychiatrists investigating how soldiers behave in stressful situations. Blood tests on war veterans showed that a minority were almost oblivious to stress and were able to think clearly in spite of the dangerous situations th...

CHICAGO — Raw-food devotees take note: Your diet is not in any way natural. Humans are as adapted to cooking our food as cows are to eating grass, or ticks are to sucking blood. "Cooking is a human universal," said Harvard primatologist Richard Wrangham at the American Association for th...

Scientists have unravelled the genetic make-up of the Neanderthal, the long-faced, barrel-chested relative of modern humans. Anthropologists analysed more than a billion fragments of ancient DNA plucked from three Croatian fossils to reconstruct a first draft of the Neanderthal genome. The extraordi...

Filed under: Budget Travel Call it cheap. Call it resourceful. But when you've got travel on the brain and you're on a budget, you gotta do whatcha gotta do. A post on MSNBC.com embraces the cheap with ingenuity. They've pulled together a list of ideas for shaving a few dollars off of some of those ...

According to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report, “Average U.S. gasoline prices rang up at $1.84 a gallon on Tuesday, up from $1.67 a gallon a month ago.” That certainly is a far cry from the $4 plus a gallon that we had 7 months ago. Funny how those championing alternative energies have got...

Yesterday I had to call AAA for about the 5th time in two months to jump my car so I could take it into the dealership. I had to replace my battery two times now in a relatively new car and this whole process has been annoying just because I am lazy and hate to be inconvenienced in any way. However ...