Ponca City, We love you writes "The number of labor with asthma has been rising for many years. About 1 in 10 parturition in the UK develop asthma, compared with about 1 in 25 in the 1960s. The reason for this isn't clear, use 'although' several grand unified theory have been put forward such as kee...

In your meaty Tuesday media column: rumors of coming layoffs (and a die-off?) at OK! magazine, a golf magazine is killed, advertising plummets, media companies may default, and Americans don't know a damn thing: We hear that OK! Magazine is, sadly, well on its way to becoming a mere shell of the gra...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. free 2004 build In a move that has almost never happened before, the Ukranian developer GSC Game World has decided to release a very early build of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shaodw of Chernobyl that predates the final release by two and a half years. The version of the game - ‘xrCore̵...

Paul Krugman, Martin Wolff and even Ben Freaking Stein (Half-time brilliant, half-time Bozo) have all weighed in on the stimulus package as not being audacious enough. Well, this is why they are probably right ... The nation is losing jobs so quickly that the government, racing to deal with the cris...

A new breed of mechanical puzzle is available for all of you who are tired of your Rubik's Cube, Ball or DodecaWTF. They're called MindStrat Puzzles, and they would drive me freaking crazy. Possibly to the point of punching a whole through the wall and catching the neighbor fapping away in his apart...

. DUMP HOG RUPERT MURDOCH'S STOCK: NY POST & FOXNEWS PARENT NEWSCORP GOP PIGS GET FATTER, AMERICA SUFFERS AS RIGHT-WING MEDIA SPREADS LIES YOUTUBE: CNN: LARRY KING "Gov. Jindal: "Glad RNC's Steele Apologized to Rush Limbaugh"" Grovel, grovel. YOUTUBE: FOXNEWS SUNDAY "Brit Hume: Racial Defender!"...

. DUMP HOG RUPERT MURDOCH'S STOCK: NY POST & FOXNEWS PARENT NEWSCORP GOP PIGS GET FATTER, AMERICA SUFFERS AS RIGHT-WING MEDIA SPREADS LIES YOUTUBE: CNN: LARRY KING "Gov. Jindal: "Glad RNC's Steele Apologized to Rush Limbaugh"" Grovel, grovel. YOUTUBE: FOXNEWS SUNDAY "Brit Hume: Racial Defender!" Lap...

Instead of going to shul Shabbos morning (I was exhausted, I have a sore and swollen right knee from doing squats in yoga), I stayed home and read a great new book by former Los Angeles Times religion reporter William Lobdell — "Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religio...

The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma for you ichthyologists) is a deepwater fish that has a see-through, fluid filled head in which it moves its eyeballs. And that, dear reader, is freaking awesome. Barreleyes, just a few inches long, are thought to eat small fishes and jellyfish. The green pigments...

Nong Youhui is a Chinese boy who was born with cat eyes that glow in the dark and enable him to see like a cat in the night (possibly as a result of nuclear waste). He can allegedly see as well in the dark as you can in the light. Except -- WICKA-POW! -- now you can't see shit because your eyes are ...