Mar 29 2008
It is English but not as we know it. A new global tongue called “Panglish” is expected to take over in the decades ahead, experts say.
Mar 27 2008
A recent libel lawsuit filed against Cisco Systems over one of its employees’ personal blogs could spur companies, many of which have encouraged workers to share their writings publicly, to reconsider how much latitude to give them.
Mar 24 2008
THE history of sex began in South Australia, around 570 million years ago.
Mar 20 2008
Adobe has admitted it can’t bring Flash to the iPhone just because it thinks that would be a neat idea.
Mar 20 2008
Our universe is doomed, says Professor Michio Kaku. Fortunately, he’s working on several escape routes: time travel, wormholes, and another universe entirely. The physicist on a mission to ‘read the mind of God’
Mar 19 2008
Mick Jagger, Rupert Murdoch and Michael Douglas all have the right idea, evolutionarily speaking. Statistics show that monogamous men have the most children if they marry women younger than themselves. How much younger is the key question.
Mar 19 2008
Determined to make perfect espressos at home, Tim Hayward squandered absurd amounts of time and money on gadgetry most of us have never heard of, only to produce cup after cup of average coffee
Mar 18 2008
THE Dalai Lama said today he would resign as Tibetan leader if the situation went out of control in Tibet, and he denied accusations from China that he was inciting violence.
Mar 18 2008
Neanderthals and humans once shared a common ancestor, but we split from the stocky, hairy hominid group as long as 400,000 to 350,000 years ago, concludes a new study.
Mar 17 2008
The makers of a video game which was outlawed for being “sadistic, brutal and bleak” have finally had the ban lifted after an extended legal battle.