Astrophysicists have been mooning over Mars for long in the hope that it might sustain life, for a spare planet we might need, given the way we are trashing the earth. Now it looks like Goldilocks may have the answer. Ecstatic planet hunters have now discovered a brand new planet in the “Goldilocks zone” of the Gliese 581 star galaxy. The “Goldilocks zone”, for those who are not star-gazing geeks, is the zone where life supporting water can be found.
Using the Keck Observatory located in Hawaii, scientists from the luminous …

Some like it Hot, and Tony Curtis sure must have loved the warm farewell given to him at Palm Mortuary in rollicking Las Vegas, on the quaint 7600 S. Eastern Avenue on Monday. A public funeral was held to accommodate a swelling number of admirers and friends who had gathered to bid farewell to their beloved superstar.
Hollywood luminaries were flanked by the legend’s daughter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis. At the ceremony, a video montage of his glittering oeuvre was streamed, as fans paid fitting tribute to the man whose career was …

Art Spiegelman drew his epic holocaust comic book with a cat and mouse metaphor for the Nazis and the Jews respectively, but Rick Sanchez and Jon Stewart are engaged in an epic dirt-slinging match, where each considers the other as filthy-rich vermin.
After CNN’s Rick Sanchez drew first blood and branded Jon Stewart a bigot and got himself fired in the bargain for his anti-Semitic rant, Jon Stewart while hosting “Night of Too Many Stars”, could not resist hitting below the belt. Stewart said in the Comedy Central …

First came the spoiler alert that a hot laptop on your lap could lower your sperm count and motility. While men were dealing with this dampener, here comes another scalding statutory warning: your laptop can give you ‘Toasted Skin Syndrome’, with angry boils and discoloured patches on your thighs from prolonged cosying up with your laptop.
Gaming buffs beware; a boy hooked to playing with his laptop resting on his bod needed emergency dermatological help after reporting ‘Toasted Skin Syndrome’ (TSS). He had to be treated for sponge-patterned patches …

Bullycide, incidents of bullying culminating in suicide, has claimed five lives this month alone. While Rutgers student Tyler Clementi lost his life to homophobic cyber-bullying, 11-year-old suicide victim Ty was harassed to death. With a spate of reports in the media about shockingly young children succumbing to peer bullies and widespread reports of gay teen bullying, it is time to do a reality cheak on child ethics in a cybernetic world, where a kid’s self-confidence can take a bashing after virulent taunts online.
Spare the mouse and save the child, would …

18 year old Rutgers student Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from George Washington Bridge, in another case of homophobia and cyber voyeurism claiming a young life. Clementi was devastated after Dharun Ravi, fellow-student and dorm roomie, along with Molly Wei, 18, uploaded a candid camera video of Clementi’s sexual encounter with another guy.
The death has raised alarm bells about ethics in a virtual world where photography, media seer Marshall McLuhan has said, meant a “brothel-without-walls” with no regard for questions of privacy infringement. A spate of troubling reports about …

The Apple iPad avidly awaited by gizmo geeks has now made its debut all over Target stores. The latest miracle from the Steve Jobs stable has Amazon apparently cannibalizing its own product Kindle in a spate of derogatory TV ads that hail the iPad as a “Kindle killer”. But a closer inspection reveals this is not such a no-brainer marketing strategy from the e-book giant.
Amazon not just stands to rake in the moolah from the hotstepper Apple iPad that was adopted with consummate ease by users, but will boost Kindle …

The ultimate convergence gizmo might just be dumbing you down. Smartphones have you heroically multi-tasking 24×7, shunting between a 100 e-mails and global time zones. The upshot is that attention spans nowadays are reduced to a nanosecond, and frantic networking all day might in the long run make you the cretin who does everything, but does it all botched.
Besides short-term memory loss hazards, scrambling all day with F1 paced super tasking affects cognitive abilities significantly. BlackBerrying at the steering-wheel is a strict no-no on the official manual, but reports say …

Reports in Washington have shown that both the Republicans and Democrats are using the economy as a blame game on their rivals. The Republicans are asking those who do not like the way the economy is to blame it on president Barack Obama and all the democrats since they have been making it even tougher, as the November 2nd elections enters a month long homestretch. GOP is hoping to return its party again to power within congress.
On the other hand, the Democrats are saying the Republicans brought about the …

A court in Jerusalem, Israel rejected on Friday an appeal by a Nobel Peace Prize winner from Ireland against being deported after entering the country while still banned from Israel for efforts to reach the area of Gaza in June, within the blockade-busting vessel.
The laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, detained within a lockup in an airport last week for the violation of a ban imposed on her in June, as she was in a ship bound for Gaza that was about try to breach the now famous blockade. At that time, …