Who owns your Facebook friends?
A tool that lets users export their Facebook ‘friends’ to a rival service may expose the site’s Achilles heel
Society
The best university lectures to go
Catch up on everything you wish you’d learned in school, a half-hour at a time
The Calgary Stampede: where meat and potatoes are dessert
The Stampede is the West’s acknowledged mecca for excessive fairground cuisine
Will colonizing meteorites and asteroids with bacteria one day save life as we know it?
Panspermia is meant to maintain Earth’s evolutionary path
Iceland considers relegating smokes to the pharmacy
Cigarettes would only be available with a prescription
Light-bulb ban has voters incandescent with rage
Canadians will obey a host of environmental regulations, but an apparently innocuous light-bulb policy may be going too far
Shoplifting is flourishing worldwide
Why is steak on everyone’s top 10 list?
Are they white—or brown?
It doesn’t take a scientist to tell a polar bear and a brown bear apart. Or does it?
Xplornet asked me not to write this
File this one under "Streisand Effect"
From ordinary poker players to big-league pros
Jeffrey Pollack’s newly created poker league aims to turn players into pampered sports celebrities