US Schools Experiment with Paying Students

Schools, under pressure to boost student achievement, are offering incentives — field trips and cash, for example — to motivate students.

Can the Enemy Build a Super-Soldier?

Imagine bad guys able to fight without sleep. Or enemy soldiers with hardware implanted in their brains that makes them better able to target U.S. troops than U.S. troops are able to target them. How about future foes able to outfox GIs thanks to the "pharmaceutical intervention" that has improved their "brain plasticity"?

Airplanes of the future could be self-healing

Airplane, heal thyself. A new technology inspired by the self-healing powers of plants and animals may allow damaged planes to fix themselves on the fly and point out even miniscule holes to mechanics upon landing. If the technique pans out, then aircraft, wind turbines and perhaps even spaceships of the future...

Israelis Unveil 'Rail-Riding Spybots'

To you or me, a monorail is a way to get around an airport, or a theme park. To a group of Israeli and German engineers, it's a high-tech defense, scanning for intruders.

Does Meditation Alter Your Brain Structure?

Ancient traditional therapies do not always stand up to close scientific scrutiny. However, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), which is about 80% meditation, has been approved by the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) for use with people who have experienced three or more episodes of depression.

25 Great Places to Visit for Free

Gas at $4 a gallon? A trip around the country can still be a bargain. These 25 destinations teach a little bit about history, science, nature, and culture -- without costing a cent.

He Said It First (NSFW)

An f-you to those too squeamish to discuss an incident speaking directly to the temperament and character of a guy who'd like to be President. Public Service Administration does a hilarious bit on McCain's freaky-mean '92 outburst calling his wife a C***.

Freshman Vs Tractor Tire

A couple high school kids roll a 4 foot tractor tire down a hill into a 120 lb freshman. Good thing it was only a test.

Despite his denials, Rove is advising McCain campaign

Rove would only concede to “chit chat” with the McCain presidential campaign. Not surprisingly, there appears to be a little more to the relationship. McCain keeps trying to position himself as different from Still-President Bush, but that’s awfully difficult under the circumstances.

Before Hybrids - Gas Guzzlers of the 1970s

Before the world started going green what were the biggest, baddest cars of the disco era? Here's a start of a list to get us going!

Cosmopolitan Teaches Girls How to Break DRM & Pirate Music

I have new respect for this magazine.

Baby Born With 8 Limbs Takes Her First Steps [6 PICS]

Families in Lakshmi's remote Indian believed she was the reincarnation of the eight limbed Hindu goddess of wealth and fortune Lakshmi

The History of Firefox 1.0 to 3.0 in Screenshots

Mozilla released Firefox version 1.0 to relative obscurity in November of 2004, and four short years later, the much-anticipated Firefox 3.0 will hit the streets with ambitions of setting a new world record tomorrow. In honor of tomorrow's 3.0 release, let's take a look back at a visual history of Firefox, version 1.0 to 3.0.

20 Of The World's Most Expensive Body Parts

Whose boobs are worth £350,000? Why did a South African soap manufacturer insure Princess Diana against "death, disability and disgrace" to the tune of £50,000? And whose partying lifestyle has left them virtually uninsurable?

Distracted Kid in CoD4

I guess there's a lesson to be learned in this.

Iran withdraws $75 billion from Europe

"About $75 billion of Iran's foreign assets which were under threat of being blocked were wired back to Iran based on Ahmadinejad's order," the weekly said.

5 LEGO Video Games That Will Never Happen

With the recent success of LEGO video games, we at the-minusworld decided to come up with five movies we want to see get the LEGO treatment. Enjoy, because these are definitely never going to happen.

Can Segway Stop WMDs, Solve Gas Prices & Save Obama?

You want to hate it, but with prices soaring at the pump, Segway sales are up at least 25 percent—and counting. PopMech crisscrosses America and finds more people set to use them, from emergency responders at Barack Obama’s coronation party to cops wielding guns at Heathrow, than ever before.

$4/gal Gas Makes Hybrids Worth the Money (Finally)

How quickly you realize your gas savings is the ubiquitous debate over buying a hybrid versus gas-powered vehicle – among the average consumer, that is. With the price tag of hybrids higher than gas vehicles, it can take quite awhile. However, when you factor in the high prices we’re paying at the pump, hybrids are quickly becoming the better deal.

EU ministers see no quick-fix after Irish reject treaty

LUXEMBOURG (AFP) — EU foreign ministers, sifting through the wreckage of the bloc's Lisbon Treaty, admitted on Monday there are no quick fixes after its rejection by Irish voters plunged the bloc into crisis.

5 Superpowers Science Will Give Us in Our Lifetime

If you're young enough to care about comic books, odds are you'll live to see real life superheroes swinging through the streets, courtesy of science. So why's that a bad thing? We tell you.

Sen. Larry Craig Marries Lover in Quaint Bathroom Ceremony

"With this foot, I thee flirt," said Craig to his betrothed. Craig vowed to love and honor Karsnia and never admit that he is actually gay. He also vowed to continue to ruin the institution of marriage with his current wife, Suzanne.

Pictured: Superstar matador gets gored by TWO angry bulls

Matador Jose Tomas had a lucky escape yesterday when he was gored not once, but TWICE during a bullfight in Madrid.The 32-year-old, who is widely considered one of the best bullfighters of all time, was competing at the Las Ventas bullring in the Spanish capital when he sustained his injuries.

Where's My Stimulus Check Refund?

Oh... there it is

Is America Ready for Another White Male President

During the Democratic Primaries, when discussing the chances of Obama and Clinton, with some frequency, the person with whom I was talking would lean in towards me and say "Do you really think America is ready for a black/woman president?" Like many people, I found the former question racist and the latter one sexist. As a white man, I also resente

alt.blocked: Verizon blocks access to whole USENET hierarchy

Verizon has released details of the agreement it and other ISPs signed last week to block access to Usenet groups that have been caught trafficking child pornography. Instead of simply blocking the handful of offending groups, however, Verizon has decided to enforce a blanket ban on what could be tens of thousands of completely innocent groups.

The Best T-Shirts at Bonnaroo

There's nothing like a four-day music festival to bring out the best today's T-shirts have to offer. A round-up of the notable shirts we saw over the weekend at Bonnaroo.

Political Affairs: Love, Sex, and Power

Are politics and sex forever doomed to be joined at the hip? If these 9 most notable political affairs in recent history provide any indication, the answer is yes.

China Alone Increased Worldwide CO2 Pollution 2% Last Year

China Officially Overtakes U.S. As Top Polluter. Now What?

Flood warning after Chinese rains

China has warned that one of its longest waterways, the Yellow River, is in danger of bursting its banks.The warning follows heavy rain in the north of China. The south has also been hit by bad weather. Dozens of people are dead after heavy storms, and more than a million have had to leave their homes.

Governments step up blogger arrests

More bloggers than ever are being arrested around the world, highlighting the dangers of citizen journalism, according to a new report from the University of Washington.

iPhone Economy: Application developers swarm to iPhone

Can someone explain how so many developers are going to make money exactly? Or is this a typical herd effect that won't benefit anyone but Apple?

15 Browser Add Ons. No One Knows Them All!

There are lots many add-ons for FireFox and you can fall in love with most of them, however these are such extensions, which take the simple & cool browser to a whole new level and shouldn’t be missed by anyone.

The Wide Divide (Graph of CEO pay vs Average Worker)

Picture speaks for itself.

Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories:They’re Banned

The Associated Press went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submisisons. Drudge Report is doing nothing different than what Digg, TechMeme, Mixx and dozens of other sites do, and frankly the fact that they are being linked to should be considered a favor.

Nude Censor Art Dance Video [NSFW?]

APOD: Inside the Coma Cluster of Galaxies

Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured above is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies

Why women quit technology careers

More than half of the women in science, engineering and IT leave the field at mid­career. Here's the reason.

Lakers only delay the inevitable

Even in defeat, Celtics appear to be the better team.

Senator Attacks Solar Energy Industry

In a blistering attack, Nevada’s Republican senator John Ensign has launched an offensive against solar energy lobbyists, ahead of a crucial vote on renewable energy tax credits.