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NBA Cancels First 2 Weeks of Season

NBA Cancels First 2 Weeks of Season

It's official: the players and owners can't agree on revenue sharing, so this year's start date has been pushed back at least until November 14th More »

Obama Consulted With Romney Advisers on Health Care Law

Obama Consulted With Romney Advisers on Health Care Law

The GOP's front-runner has been fighting associations with the president's reforms, and today's news won't help his case More »

Hoping to Prevent Skin Cancer, California Bans Tanning for Kids

Hoping to Prevent Skin Cancer, California Bans Tanning for Kids

Governor Jerry Brown signed the new law last week, making his state the first to keep those under the age of 18 out of tanning salons More »

Today in Research: Car Owners Are Ready for Marriage; More

Today in Research: Car Owners Are Ready for Marriage; More

As demographic research informs us, car ownership is one indicator of when people start to finally settle down with a partner More »

Screening for Prostate Cancer May Do More Harm Than Good

Screening for Prostate Cancer May Do More Harm Than Good

The United States Prevention Task Force has started another controversy by recommending that the PSA test for cancer be discontinued More »

With Budget Cuts, It Will Take Over a Year to Divorce in San Francisco

With Budget Cuts, It Will Take Over a Year to Divorce in San Francisco

The California city plans to close 24 courtrooms, cut clerk hours, and fire 175 staffers. meaning all kinds of civil matters will soon take longer More »

The Homey Touches in Twitter's New York Office

The Homey Touches in Twitter's New York Office

Twitter sent over some photos of some comfy couches, crafts projects, and artwork found in the company's new digs More »

Feds Are Giving California's Pot Dispensaries 45 Days to Shut Down

Feds Are Giving California's Pot Dispensaries 45 Days to Shut Down

Letters sent by U.S. Attorneys to more than a dozen medical marijuana shops warn they could face criminal charges and lose property More »

Today in Research: Texting While Driving Slows Reaction Time; More

Today in Research: Texting While Driving Slows Reaction Time; More

"Even though we had participants drive at 30 miles an hour with very wide lanes on the test track, we still had many close calls" More »

Cliché Watch: Steve Jobs as a 'Visionary'

Cliché Watch: Steve Jobs as a 'Visionary'

We look into the widespread use of "visionary" to describe Apple's co-founder and examine the word's origins More »

Scientists Discover 43,381 New Viruses Lurking in Sewer Systems

Scientists Discover 43,381 New Viruses Lurking in Sewer Systems

What makes this news more disconcerting is that, to date, scientists have only classified 3,000 viruses -- and 10 percent infect humans More »

Nobel Literature Prize Goes to Swedish Poet Tomas Transtromer

Nobel Literature Prize Goes to Swedish Poet Tomas Transtromer

According to the Nobel Committee, the 80-year-old writer won because "through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality" More »

Today in Research: Fewer People Are Drinking and Driving; More

Today in Research: Fewer People Are Drinking and Driving; More

The CDC released an encouraging report on the number of people who drink and drive, arguing that more people are drinking at home More »

In Praise of Dumbphones

In Praise of Dumbphones

Two-thirds of Americans don't own smartphones More »

Apple Wakes Up to a Bad iPhone 4S Hangover

Apple Wakes Up to a Bad iPhone 4S Hangover

There's bad news and worse news after the underwhelming iPhone announcement More »

Today in Research: Korea Sees Boost in Medical Tourism; More

Today in Research: Korea Sees Boost in Medical Tourism; More

A report on the thriving tourism industry provides an overview of how South Korea and others are marketing themselves to the Chinese More »

All of Apple's News Today

All of Apple's News Today

We'll keep updating this post as Apple's event proceeds More »

The Food Network's Alton Brown on How to Fake Being a Wine Snob

The Food Network's Alton Brown on How to Fake Being a Wine Snob

During an interview. Brown explained that you can look like you know what you're talking just by asking for a year missing from the menu More »

U.S.-Born Scientists Win Nobel for Terrifying View of the Universe

U.S.-Born Scientists Win Nobel for Terrifying View of the Universe

Three scientists will share a $1.5 million prize for their discovery that the universe to expand at an increasing speed More »

Today in Research: How the Nobel Winners Reacted to the News; More

Today in Research: How the Nobel Winners Reacted to the News; More

Ralph Steinman dying three days before being awarded the Nobel in Medicine dominated the news, but he was just one of three winners More »

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