Windows 7 equals some strange math

It was the product's code name, something relatively simple, and it is generally seen as a lucky number (at least in the United States). But to arrive at the number 7, Microsoft does some strange math, as general manager Mike Nash outlined.
Windows 7 equals some strange math

Airport trials 'see-through' scanners

New screening technology capable of seeing through passengers' clothing has been put on display at Melbourne airport.
Airport trials 'see-through' scanners

18 Tools to Track Car and Fuel Maintenance

With the economy in such an uncertain place, it’s very likely that people will be holding on to their cars far longer than they have in the past. With this in mind, it’s important to take care of your vehicle, which can be made simple using a variety of online services. Here are 18 tools to help you keep track of your car’s maintenance, as well as gas consumption, mileage, and more.
18 Tools to Track Car and Fuel Maintenance

Why Women Worry

How rational are our fears?
In late 2007, a study discovered the word that evoked the greatest fear. The study included the words spider, snake death, rape, murder, and incest.
“Shark” evoked the strongest reaction.
Why Women Worry

A special message from Ringo Starr - no more fan mail after Oct. 20

You have just five days to send stuff to Ringo to get it autographed. Hurry, hurry. Don't get shut out.
A special message from Ringo Starr - no more fan mail after Oct. 20

Optimize Your Web Connection

Your broadband connection screams compared with the dial-up days of yore, but it could be faster. These days, your internet connection can't be fast enough. That is why we're here — to show you the way to a faster internet connection by tweaking the hardware and software you're using.
Optimize Your Web Connection

How to Construct a Killer Resume, From Start to Finish

It would be worthwhile to go through the entire process of creating a strong resume, step by step.
How to Construct a Killer Resume, From Start to Finish

Make Roses Bloom Longer with Salt and Mint Oil

Life's a trade-off. Fake roses bloom eternal but they're about as romantic as a cubic zirconia engagement ring. Make your real roses blossom longer with these tips.
Make Roses Bloom Longer with Salt and Mint Oil

Form an Attack Plan for a Cluttered, Messy Home

It's the place you don't have to keep clean—until somebody's coming to visit. For anyone looking to cut back on clutter to create more living space (and space for awesome projects), read on for tips on putting your house in order.
Form an Attack Plan for a Cluttered, Messy Home

Web Archive Viewer For Internet Explorer

Web Archive Viewer is a plugin for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that provides access to file archives before the download. It displays the contents of zip and rar archives and gives Internet Explorer users the option to download selected files instead of the complete archive.
Web Archive Viewer For Internet Explorer

Intel Product Comparison Chart

If you have already decided that the next processor that you are buying will be an Intel processor but are yet undecided on the processor itself you might find the Intel Product Comparison Chart useful.
Intel Product Comparison Chart

The OED is 80: Some fascinating facts

Some fascinating facts and figures about the Oxford English Dictionary. Did you know…
The OED is 80: Some fascinating facts

How to Go from Introvert to Extrovert

If you're an introvert, how do you balance the introvert and extrovert parts of yourself, such that you enjoy both types of activities equally, rather than looking forward to one and dreading the other? If you’re very introverted, you may undervalue the positive role people can play in your life, such as knowledge, friendship, growth, laughter, and so on. The optimal outcome is to strike a balance between the two and become an ambivert, or someone who enjoys social interaction and solitude equally.
How to Go from Introvert to Extrovert

Maxtor Shared Storage II - 2TB NAS - $499 (2 days only)

rrp $699. 2 Days only, some of you have mentioned not getting NAS deals, so here it is:
Maxtor Shared Storage II - NAS - 2 TB - HD 1 TB x 2 - RAID 1 - Gigabit Ethernet ~$640 on SI.
Simply share storage and automatically backup computer files, photos, music and digital videos to one location on small office and home networks with Maxtor Shared Storage II. Easy user interface provides backup scheduling of networked computers, data restoration, and media playback to networked media/ entertainment systems without being tied down to a dedicated computer host.
Maxtor Shared Storage II - 2TB NAS - $499 (2 days only)

Rat Race Urban Adventure Series - Melbourne, Australia

The Rat Race Urban Adventure has arrived in Australia – be part of the Ratolution.
Rat Race Urban Adventure Series - Melbourne, Australia

Stay on Top of Your USB Stick

Are you carrying a USB thumb drive with useful applications with you at all times? I’ve written before about how it makes a lot of sense, and how to stock your drive with many good free, open source applications with only one download. MacLibre and PortableApps.com remain the choice sites to go to to stock your drive up with good apps. For ongoing information on how to get the most out of your pocket drive, though, try GetUSB.info.
Stay on Top of Your USB Stick

How to Reuse an Empty Altoids Tin

Altoids candy comes in a variety of small, sturdy metal tins that invite creative reuse. If you have one (or a giant stack) left over, try one of these projects to put it to good use.
How to Reuse an Empty Altoids Tin

Finding The Best 3G Mobile Broadband Deal

Mobile broadband services -- using 3G spectrum to deliver the Internet to your PC or notebook -- are getting more popular, with almost a million Australians already using them. Whether you want to use them at home, in a hotel room or even in a train, there's a wide range of plans to choose from, and recent price changes from Optus, Telstra, 3 and Vodafone have further muddied the waters. Read on for Lifehacker's guide to the best current deals in the mobile broadband space.
Finding The Best 3G Mobile Broadband Deal

Free 2GB USB drive from Microsoft! | OzBargain

Just fill out the quick survey to receive a free 2GB USB drive from Microsoft!
Free 2GB USB drive from Microsoft! | OzBargain

8 Nifty Tips for Getting the Most from an All-You-Can Eat Buffet

Food can serve many purposes. For some it is merely for nourishment. For others it is a form of art or a means of entertainment. For still others, it fills an emotional need and could even be considered an addiction or vice. For the purpose of this article, I’d like to point out that my advice is for the most basic of needs: good nutrition, a bit of indulgence, and a chance to fellowship with your family or friends with no dishes to clean up! Here are the 8 ways we make our dining dollars a great investment.
8 Nifty Tips for Getting the Most from an All-You-Can Eat Buffet

How to Stop Feeling Like Your Life Isn't Good Enough

In recent times, it seems there are only three measures of success: Money, looks, and fame. If you don't have one or all of them, you just don't measure up. But you're an ordinary person, and it's hard to feel self-worth, self-respect, and self-esteem when you go to an everyday job in an everyday world. How do you find a sense of significance in a world that seems so shallow?
How to Stop Feeling Like Your Life Isn't Good Enough

Stop Trying to Impress Other People

Imagine, just for a moment, that you find yourself on a desert island with just you and four or five of your closest friends and relatives - the people you care about the most in this world. The only people around are the people that care about you.
Stop Trying to Impress Other People

Uncluttered public speaking

I’m sure we’ve all attended memorable presentations — some are memorable because they inspire, others because they’re awful. (I’ll never forget my astrology professor who droned on and on: “One may find that it’s intuitively obvious” and then he’d add a few incomprehensible points about celestial objects.)
Uncluttered public speaking

How Meditation Improves Your Health

Fact 1: Meditation assists healing. If you have any kind of health complaint at all then meditation can help you to get better.
How Meditation Improves Your Health

The 2008 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix - The Big Picture

The sixteenth round of the 2008 Grand Prix motorcycle racing (MotoGP) season was recently held on a track on the southern coast of Australia. The 2008 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix took place on Phillip Island, on the weekend of October 3rd.
The 2008 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix

The Financial Crisis in Pictures: 8 of the Best from Around the Web

With the stock market continuing to plunge, one thing remains constant: financial news sites like to tell part of the story with images of distressed Wall Street traders and executives that are experiencing some of the worst moments of their careers.
The Financial Crisis in Pictures: 8 of the Best from Around the Web

Why It's Not Selfish to Put Yourself First

One piece of advice that I’ve come across in the writings of several life coaches is that we should act in our own best interests. My initial reaction to this is to feel uncomfortable – like most people, I worry that I’m being selfish if I put myself first.
Why It's Not Selfish to Put Yourself First

How to Accept Criticism With Grace and Appreciation

How do you deal with criticism? The first reaction for many of us is to defend ourselves, or worse yet to lash back. And yet, while criticism can be taken as hurtful and demoralizing, it can also be viewed in a positive way: it is honesty, and it can spur us to do better. It’s an opportunity to improve and build up our true talents.
How to Accept Criticism With Grace and Appreciation

Opening the Door to Helping Your Parents

What kind of help should I provide for my parents? What kind of help do they actually need? What does their situation really look like? Would they be happy if I took an interest, or would they not like it at all?
Opening the Door to Helping Your Parents

Email: Test Your Web Mail's Password Recovery (Before Someone Else Does)

CNET's Michael Horowitz runs down the ins and outs of securing and restoring access to your Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail account, whether it's been infiltrated, locked you out, or you're just looking to ensure its privacy. It's a good guide that might make you think twice about your web mail practices, especially if you haven't run through his final bit of advice: Test your password recovery procedure—the kind that left Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account wide open—before anyone else does.
Email: Test Your Web Mail's Password Recovery (Before Someone Else Does)

Once-a-Month Shopping: Save More by Shopping Less

How often do you go to the supermarket? Could you get by making only one trip per month? What if it saved you money?
Once-a-Month Shopping: Save More by Shopping Less

Yoko Ono: Celebrate John Lennon's Birthday Today with Peace

On 9 Oct 2008, John Lennon’s birthday, Yoko Ono asks the people of Iceland to join her and many others across the rest of the world in praying for peace and stability.
Yoko Ono: Celebrate John Lennon's Birthday Today with Peace

The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw

Robert Burton is the former chief of neurology at the University of California at San Francisco-Mt. Zion hospital. He recently wrote a book, On Being Certain, that explored the neuroscience behind the feeling of certainty, or why we are so convinced we’re right even when we’re wrong.
The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw

The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need | Zen Habits

Motivation isn’t that complicated. Sure, there are numerous tips that can help, numerous tactics and strategies.
The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need | Zen Habits

Google Maps: Now Officially Gorgeous

Remember when we told you about Google’s new satellite, GeoEye-1, which should bring highest resolution commercial imagery available to Google Maps? Below, you can see the first image that the satellite captured. GeoEye-1 captures images at .41 meters in black and white and 1.65 meters in color; for real life reference, that means crisp enough to read license plates.
Google Maps: Now Officially Gorgeous

Understand the Financial Crisis

Freddie and Fannie, Bernanke, Bush, mortgages, loans, foreclosure, $700 billion bailout, recession, crisis. These are the words filling the headlines and being tossed around in Washington and on Wall Street in worry and, yes, panic. What does it all mean?
Understand the Financial Crisis

The Things You Don’t Need (But They Say You Do) For a New Baby

Expecting parents know the gauntlet of baby gear pushed and prodded their way through the store’s aisles. Modern-day culture all but convinces the average parent-to-be that they may very well fail at their upcoming task without the shiny new products begging for purchase. Never mind that men and women have parented children for eons without most of these things.
The Things You Don’t Need (But They Say You Do) For a New Baby

8 tips for finding the right thing to say in a difficult situation

I often feel like I don’t know the right thing to say. I’ll be desperate to find the right words, but in a tough situation, I just don’t know what to say to make a person feel better. I often find myself switching the topic of the conversation -- so quickly that I've changed it before I realize what I've done.
8 tips for finding the right thing to say in a difficult situation

A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Romantic and Highly Frugal Date Night

I’ve been collecting ideas and tips for a while and I’ve come up with some fairly modular options for coming up with a frugal romantic date. Choose one option from the “Dinner” section and the “Entertainment” section and then top it off with one item from the “Follow-Up” section.
A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Romantic and Highly Frugal Date Night

The 10 Things I Won’t Give Up Just To Save Money

Times are tough and they may be getting tougher as inflation and unemployment rates rise. There are 10 things that I could cut out of my expenses to save money right now but these measures will likely cause my earning power to shrink and my cost of living to rise in the long term.
The 10 Things I Won’t Give Up Just To Save Money

New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret

Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can't always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we're launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.
New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret

Critic’s Notebook - Old Gender Roles With Your Dinner?

To Jenny Moon, the whole business of giving menus to women before men, taking orders from women before men and clearing women’s plates first just didn’t make sense, not in the East Village in 2008.
Critic’s Notebook - Old Gender Roles With Your Dinner?

How to Save Money on Your Wedding: ASK!

Eight people from the wedding industry had gathered to swap hints, tips, and stories. They talked about networking, about wedding expos, and about dealing with problem customers. They also talked about some of the financial aspects of their business.
How to Save Money on Your Wedding: ASK!

Airport shoe-scanner device could prevent stupid shoe-removal ritual

Could this be what we've all been waiting for? Israel's Ben-Gurion International has added a gizmo called MagShoe to its security checkpoints in Terminal 3, meaning some passengers will be able to leave their shoes on.
Airport shoe-scanner device could prevent stupid shoe-removal ritual

UK to install clusters of cameras to catch speeders

The UK is going to install camera clusters on hundreds of roads next year to "monitor drivers’ average speed on all routes across a wide area."
UK to install clusters of cameras to catch speeders

Hosting Overnight Guests: 10 Easy Tips To Help Your Visitors Feel Welcome

As you’re reading this, we are hosting out-of-town guests in our home for a few days. Some people where we live kindly refer to us as a “bed and breakfast” because we have so many guests pass through our hallways - and we love it.
Hosting Overnight Guests: 10 Easy Tips To Help Your Visitors Feel Welcome

24 Words the CED Want to Exuviate (Shed)

Here are a list of words the Collins English Dictionary want to discard to make room for up to 2,000 new entries.
24 Words the CED Want to Exuviate (Shed)

9 Signs You Need to Fire Your Financial Planner

In tough economic times, financial planners are on the front lines. They are the gateway to investment returns when the markets are good, and are the buffer against financial disaster when the markets are bad.
9 Signs You Need to Fire Your Financial Planner

Forged Elvis Passport Accepted By Airport Security

A group of hackers has released a video showing a forged Elvis Presley passport - the RFID-protected kind that can be scanned by computers - being run through and accepted by a Dutch airport security machine.
Forged Elvis Passport Accepted By Airport Security

Retirement Plans in a Down Stock Market

Stocks are inherently a risky investment. If you look at the long term history of the stock market, there are a lot of years where the stock market goes up 15 to 20% in a year. There are also a lot of years where the stock market drops 20% in a year. Over the very long haul, these average out - that’s why holding a broad range of stocks (like in an index fund) is a good idea if you’re investing for the far future.
Retirement Plans in a Down Stock Market

To improve your marriage -- be quiet

Forget everything you've heard about frankness, sharing your feelings, getting him to express his. New research into the male mind makes it clear that discussion may be the fastest way to shut down communication. (Oh, you noticed that, have you?)
To improve your marriage -- be quiet

OUP UK’s Word of the Year is…

Drum roll please! Today sees the announcement of OUP UK’s Word of the Year, as chosen by Countdown’s Susie Dent. And, perhaps unsurprisingly given what is going on in the world’s economy at the moment, that word is....
OUP UK’s Word of the Year is…

Go ogle Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on Google Maps!

Although there’s no “Reef View” to rival the Street View on Google Maps, a bird’s-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef using new map data and satellite imagery is now available for anyone to go ogle!
Go ogle Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on Google Maps!

Make Your Clothes Last Longer (without spending big)

With everyone trying to stretch their dollars further these days, it makes sense to take care of the things we have, rather than buy replacements. This goes for clothing as much as anything else we own and use on a daily basis.
Make Your Clothes Last Longer (without spending big)

Google 2001

In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001. (hmmm Google is such a pup, The Black Stump is over 13 years old!)
Google 2001

12 Greek Words You Should Know

Along with Latin, Greek is probably the language that most influenced other languages around the world. Many English words derive directly from Greek ones, and knowing their origin and meaning is important.
12 Greek Words You Should Know

Warren Buffett’s Ten Secrets to Wealth and Life

Warren Buffett is the richest man in the world, yet his reputation for frugality, folksy wisdom, and straight talk make him seem like just a regular guy, like he might be the billionaire next door.
Warren Buffett’s Ten Secrets to Wealth and Life

How to Get Rid of Foot Odor

Are you suffering from a raging case of stinky feet? Do people wince when you walk by? Do your dogs avoid playing with your shoes? Here are some suggestions that may help tame that fearsome foot odor.
How to Get Rid of Foot Odor

7 Ridiculous Ways to Die While Golfing

If you could choose the means by which you’ll check out of this life, most men would either die old, do something gloriously macho, or in David Blaine’s case find the lamest way possible.
7 Ridiculous Ways to Die While Golfing

11 Refreshing Ways to Bring Out the Awesomeness in Life

It’s hard not to get sucked into the routine of living and take life for granted. Sometimes it’s hard to stay excited about life.
11 Refreshing Ways to Bring Out the Awesomeness in Life

Cool Tools: Deep Fun

Or in other words, how to have good clean fun. Directions for about 25 well-proven games for groups are succinctly supplied by this free PDF book.
Cool Tools: Deep Fun

The Twelve Biggest Personal Finance Mistakes People Make Over and Over Again

Most of the same problems pop up time and time again. Sure, the specifics of the story change, as do the severity of the situation, but these same twelve items come up in almost every story.
The Twelve Biggest Personal Finance Mistakes People Make Over and Over Again

Five fun smartphone tips

Tip #1: See what you’re ordering.
Five fun smartphone tips

10 Timeless Business Tips From 10 Millionaires

Here is what I have learned in the last year from 10 successful entrepreneurs.
10 Timeless Business Tips From 10 Millionaires

A Frugal Family is a Greener Family: Easy Everyday Tips

Who wouldn’t want to make everyday life less expensive? Here are a few ways we make everyday home life a bit more frugal, inevitably coloring our home a slightly greener hue.
A Frugal Family is a Greener Family: Easy Everyday Tips

Surprising Things You Can Get For Free (Or Almost)

As much as I love the word, I have to admit it makes me suspicious. Just this week I won a “free” vacation, but the fine print says I need to send in a cashier's check to claim my prize. Sadly, “free” is usually a sneaky way to clean out my wallet.
Surprising Things You Can Get For Free (Or Almost)

Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized

Even if you're a hyper-organized, task-oriented worker with an expansive mind and endless ambition, you won't get a lot done if your mind and body are demanding you curl up and doze off. Luckily, you can overcome a late night of net surfing, a rough morning, or just the post-lunch stupor without becoming an over-wired mess.
Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized

How to Get Adult Kids to Pay Their Share

Not quite ready to push your adult fledglings out of the nest yet but getting fed up with their lack of contributions to the household budget? This article will provide you with some ideas on what to do to make the budgetary cycle in your household a little fairer on everyone, as well as getting them to do more of their share around the house.
How to Get Adult Kids to Pay Their Share

What's your secret tip for saving money at the grocery store?

What's your trick for staying cheap and healthy at the grocery store? Looking for ideas beyond coupon clipping.
What's your secret tip for saving money at the grocery store?

Browser Speed Tests: The Compiled, Up-to-Date Results

Back when Firefox 3's final release candidate dropped, we ran some tests to compare its page-loading, memory use, and technical timing to Internet Explorer 7, Opera, and Safari for Windows. Then Google Chrome arrived, so we pitted it against the betas for Firefox 3.1 and Internet Explorer 8, and shared the results. The tests were by and large the same, but many commenters wisely asked to see all the results, betas or no betas.
Browser Speed Tests: The Compiled, Up-to-Date Results

Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

With a plan of attack, you can maintain a sparkling house in just 19 minutes a day.
Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

Quit Your Day Job: lillyella

Nicole is a planner and her story is jam packed with helpful, honest, and realistic tips for gaining success when considering taking the plunge. Keep reading to find out about how she keeps it all together, the ultimate DIY project she's got going on in her back yard, and the two indulgences she had to sacrifice for her business.
Quit Your Day Job: lillyella

The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

They're rarely helpful. Actually, they usually add insult to injury. But what would computing be without 'em? Herewith, a tribute to a baker's dozen of the best (or is that worst?).
The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

50 Tools to Speed Up or Otherwise Enhance Your PC

Is your PC tired and sluggish? Has its get up and go got up and went? If you want a faster system, you could certainly break the bank and buy a new machine. Or you could read this article instead.
50 Tools to Speed Up or Otherwise Enhance Your PC

Convert Microsoft Word 2007 Files Online

Got a Word 2007-formatted file you need to convert while you're away from your desktop?
Convert Microsoft Word 2007 Files Online

Fill 'er Up

With rising fuel prices increasingly factoring into our driving decisions, Australians are feeling our fair share of pain at the petrol pump.
To help Australians get the best value for their fuel dollars, Google Australia has partnered with Motormouth to help provide everyone with easily accessible information about petrol prices. We've developed an iGoogle gadget (here) that allows you to find out the price of various fuel types across parts of major metro areas in Australia.
Fill 'er up

29 Steps I Took to Leave the Workforce at Age 29

Leave the corporate world behind!
29 Steps I Took to Leave the Workforce at Age 29

Internet Activity, Australia, Jun 2008

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Internet Activity Survey (IAS) collects details on aspects of internet access services provided by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia. This release contains results from all ISPs operating in Australia with more than 10,000 active subscribers as at 30 June 2008.
Internet Activity, Australia, Jun 2008

10 Reasons You Should Write Something Each Day

The written word is a part of every day life. At its most basic, writing is a way of communicating. This is the one inalienable characteristic of writing itself, whether you’re communicating with a colleague or friend or you’re actually communicating with yourself - though a shopping list, for instance.
10 Reasons You Should Write Something Each Day

How to Protect Your Email from Hackers

According to Wired, hacking VP-hopeful Sarah Palin's email account was easy: all the hacker needed was Palin's birthdate, ZIP code, and the name of her high school—all of which are no more than a Google search away. In fact, password security questions may have always been the weakest link in email security, since anyone with an acquaintance's knowledge or access to the internet can divine answers to most of your security questions within minutes. So how can you make sure your email account is secure?
How to Protect Your Email from Hackers

10 Unbeatable Tips for Overcoming Micro-Addictions

What are micro-addictions? They are those annoying little habits that prevent you from living the life you truly want. They are small enough to go unchecked, but bothersome enough to get in the way of you living your fullest potential.
10 Unbeatable Tips for Overcoming Micro-Addictions

10 Overused Words in Writing

All words are good words. Some, however, are overused without adding value to what you write. As a result, they reduce the readers’ interest, make text seem redundant, and cause the writer to appear amateurish.
10 Overused Words in Writing

Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

You can review the complete list here.
Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

How to Be Outstanding

Are you exceptional in your line of work? Do you love what you do? Perhaps that’s why you are or aren’t getting the results you want.
People who consistently achieve outstanding results all have this in common: they are passionate about what they do. It’s no longer work, but an active participation of joy and creativity.
This article takes a deeper look into outstanding performance, and gives guidance as to how you can manifest outstanding results in your life.
How to Be Outstanding

Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake

It’s not surprising that many people, especially web workers, experience email fatigue. After all, spending hours each day reading and replying to emails can prevent you from spending more time on the work that you actually have to do (unless sending and receiving emails is your line of work).
Archive Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake

anti-theft lunch bag

Stealing your co-worker's lunch is a downright contemptible act, that is, if it's perpetrated by someone other than you. But, if you've ever had your lunch stolen, you know the the frustration and anger it causes.
anti-theft lunch bag

How to solve a maze puzzle using Photoshop

Steps to solve a maze with photoshop. 1) find a maze image that has good solid lines (maze should have an open start and finish point) 2) use magic wand to select the border of the maze 3) etc
How to solve a maze puzzle using Photoshop

7 Tips for Money and Marriage

Today, while most of us marry for romantic reasons, marriage at its core is still a financial union. So much of what we want — or don’t want — out of life boils down to dollars and cents, whether it’s how hard we choose to work, how much we consume or how much we save. For some people, it’s working 80-hour weeks to finance a third home and country club membership; for others, it means cutting back on office hours to spend more time with the family.
7 Tips for Money and Marriage

20 superfoods for weight loss

It's time for a new slim-down mantra: Eat more to weigh less. No joke! The right foods help you drop pounds by revving your calorie burn and curbing cravings.
20 superfoods for weight loss

23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself

In the not too distant past, the Web was all about sharing, broadcasting, and distribution. The tide is turning. The Web is moving towards the individual. Applications spring up every month that let people track, monitor, and analyze their habits and behaviors in hopes of gaining a better understanding about themselves and their surroundings.
23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself

Why Tea Is Healthier Than Water

While nobody is running around extolling the virtues of cola as a replacement for water for daily hydration, researchers at Kings College London want to make sure you don't think every non-water drink is a poor substitute for water. After reviewing numerous studies on the benefits of drinking tea, they've concluded that tea is a superior drink.
Why Tea Is Healthier Than Water

The Falling Man

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
The Falling Man

10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

Who knew that providing energy and water for all could be a matter of foot cranks and dirt power?
10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming

The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming.
Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming

Don’t Panic: How to Know When the Large Hadron Collider Spells Your Doom

As anyone who has even a passing fancy of physics knows, the Large Hadron Collider was turned on just a bit ago, and while the Earth has yet to implode, we might not be out of the woods yet.
Don’t Panic: How to Know When the Large Hadron Collider Spells Your Doom

Ten things you don’t know about the Earth

Good advice from the 60s acid band. Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There’s a whole planet beneath your feet, 6.6 sextillion tons of it, one trillion cubic kilometers of it. But how well do you know it?
Ten things you don’t know about the Earth

Hurricanes, as seen from orbit

Hurricane Ike just rolled across Cuba, and soaked parts of Haiti - both regions still reeling from recent Hurricane Gustav. Ike appears to be weakening now, but is headed tward the Gulf Coast of the U.S., and may yet strengthen. The crew aboard the International Space Station was able to take a photo of Ike from 220 miles overhead last Thursday - one in a long series of great NASA photographs of hurricanes from space. Here are some of the best, from the past several years.
Hurricanes, as seen from orbit

Five Best Password Managers

You've got enough to keep track of in your day-to-day life without filling your head with the countless logins and passwords you've racked up over the years, and the Post-It note on your monitor just isn't an option. Luckily, there are several fantastic and secure password management applications designed to make it easy for you to remember, manage, and secure your passwords effortlessly.
Five Best Password Managers

20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

How many times during the day do you check email, or go to see updates of your favorite blogs or social sites, or shuffle paperwork or make phone calls … when you know you should be doing something more important?
20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

Why the Brain Follows the Rules

Clues to understanding the human social brain come from a study of punishment's role in fairness.
Why the Brain Follows the Rules