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Teenagers would rather see a virtual shrink than a real one. So says Eric Wagner, a psychologist at Florida International University.

Frank Miller, the comic book auteur behind Dark Knight and Sin City, is directing his first film — an adaptation of 1940s newspaper comic The Spirit. Originally written by Will Eisner, the story features a detective dubbed the Spirit after he awakens fr

Is it art – or is it blasphemy? Although the calendar clearly states that it’s the year 2008 in the 21st century, the debate continues – and the latest battlefield for artistic freedom is Austria.

December’s remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still isn’t just jettisoning the original version’s storyline, it’s also losing most of the things that made the 1950s version cool in the first place, according to a new script review. But at least Keanu Reeve

Gay and lesbian media portal PlanetOut Inc. agreed to sell its magazine and book publishing business to Here Networks for $6 million in cash.

The only North American leg of the Olympic torch relay has been marked by confusion after the route was diverted to avoid crowds of protesters.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the world economy will grow much more slowly in the next two years as a result of the credit crunch.

The ritual performance duo Aixela, which started with the idea of reaching inward to find something intimate and private, and figuring out how to represent it….The result… is supposed to get at some nether part of the human soul.

The era of coal-fired electricity generation in the United States may be coming to a close. In early 2007, a U.S. Department of Energy report listed 151 coal-fired power plants in the planning stages in the United States. But during 2007, 59 proposed plan

On April 25th at the Citadel in San Francisco, Midori will be throwing her annual Bang 4 The Buck Women’s Party and we were lucky enough to find time to sit down with Midori and get the scoop on this incredible event. At the end of the interview keep re

This clip is worth watching all the way threw to the end. Nina is adorable, and explains how to properly pull hair, how to let a woman grind herself off on your mouth, and I think I have a crush on Kate.

Ironically, it was a quest for immortality that led to the invention of the deadliest weapon before the arrival of the atomic bomb.

Cultist groups have permeated society ever since people could chat and share ideas en masse, although modern cult experts today often clash about what, exactly, makes a group of people a cult.

Valentines Day in South Korea means chocolates, romantic dinners and a high-tech mobile phone device that can secretly check the passion in the voice of a lover.

U.S. free-speech advocates on Tuesday gave their annual “muzzle” awards to violators including police who charged a woman for swearing at her overflowing toilet, and a motor vehicles department that deemed a “GETOSAMA” license plate offensive.

Get out your red-blue glasses and float next to the International Space Station (ISS), planet Earth’s largest artificial moon.

Not one of the participants in NASA’s 2008 Great Moonbuggy Race was old enough to have seen the 1969 movie, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies. Nevertheless, the racers all looked like stars of that film as they careened about the simulated l

In the United States most electricity used in electric cars would probably come from fossil fuels, right? Given all the steps involved, does the loss of energy during electrical generation, transmission, battery charging, and electric motor operation make

What are the psychological “rules” of bartering?

A Canadian man who claims he was discriminated against as a pagan who practices a form of sadomasochism will get to take his complaint to a human rights tribunal.

So omnivorous is the Chinese appetite for imports that when the country ran short of scrap metal in early 2004, manhole covers disappeared from cities all over the world. Chicago lost 150 in a month.

In a new documentary film, actor, game show host and financial columnist Ben Stein falls for the pseudoscience of intelligent design.

Carbon dioxide captured from the smokestacks of power plants could one day provide the raw material for plastics.

While games like Guitar Hero and the Nintendo Wii are exploring new kinds of kinetic interface, in our work lives most of us are stuck with the Qwerty keyboard and the computer mouse: inventions that date back 134 years and 45 years respectively.

Superinsulation may sound like a marketing gimmick for a drafty attic or winter coat. But it is actually a newly discovered fundamental state of matter created by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration w

There’s a strange wave phenomenon that’s plagued rocket scientists for years, a lurking threat with the power to destroy an engine at almost any time. For decades, scientists have had a limited understanding of how or why it happens because they could

Social networking sites are already pretty popular. So how do you improve on the internet’s hottest web offerings? The answer could be to make them three-dimensional.

The speed of sound might have been quicker just after the big bang. That’s the suggestion of one physicist, who says it could help explain both how galaxies formed and why distant corners of the universe have much in common.

Tracking people’s every move using buildings packed with motion sensors is more effective than CCTV, and less invasive to privacy, say researchers who tried the technique on their own colleagues.

The first recorded species of frog that breathes without lungs has been found in a clear, cold-water stream on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.

A porn film director who made headlines in October after he was found dead in a Morgan Hill motel room apparently committed suicide, according to authorities. Inkyo Volt Hwang, 38, died of acute methadone intoxication and the method of death was listed as

The U.S. Department of Labor said Wednesday it will hold three meetings in Livermore to help research laboratory employees who may have become ill working with nuclear weapons.

One of the weirdest moments in pop music has to be the brief, early-1980s rise to fame of radical alterna-electro-artist Laurie Anderson.

Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government’s biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate. They are spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crop

Where we live, the bylaws say that residential units need parking spaces, but to discourage car use, the city has been dropping the ratio of spaces to units. The result- more cars fighting over street spaces. TreeHugger writer emeritus Ruben Anderson note

As if nuclear war wasn’t scary enough, a new computer modeling study by CU-Boulder scientists Brian Toon and Michael Mills shows that even a regional nuclear war (between Pakistan and India, for example) could create a near global hole in the ozone layer.

We are using green, innovative and sustainable materials and applying them to the cleanest coldest place on earth. The E-Base will serve as a model globally and locally.

Happy Birthday to Hugh Hefner, weird old dude in his pajamas. He’s 130.

Happy Birthday to Jenna Jameson, of whom IMDB says, “She remains one of the most popular pornstresses in the industry today.” I am not sure what a pornstress is but apparently it involves looking kinda scary and not spreading your legs.

The production company behind hit TV series Entourage has issued a warning about a man posing as show creator Doug Ellin. The unknown man is reported to have assumed Ellin’s name in a bid to seduce aspiring actresses by tempting them with a role in the se