Check Yourself for Genetic Abnormalities – “Nearly every day, somebody in the research community claims to have found a genetic marker associated with some sort of health condition. If you are curious and want to check yourself for those inherited traits, there are several options at your disposal. Some are easy, others are quite hard, but none of them are cheap…”

10 High-Tech Health Breakthroughs Coming Soon to Your Body – “Health care has come a long way since whole-body bloodletting. But medicine of the future will make even today’s broad-based therapies obsolete. Breakthroughs such as cancer-hunting nanoparticles, virus-busting lasers and featherweight heart monitors have begun to usher in a new era of targeted treatment—one in which drugs go directly where they’re needed, leaving healthy body tissues intact, and the slightest sign of illness is detected in real time…”

Who Owns What on Television? – “All those hundreds of TV channels may lead you that there’s a true diversity and variety in today’s television … but you’d be wrong. A handful of large companies control what you see, hear, and read every day…”

How to win Arguments – Dos, Don’ts and Sneaky Tactics – “There is not much point in having brilliant ideas if we cannot persuade people of their value. Persuasive debaters can win arguments using the force of their reason and by the skillful deployment of many handy techniques…”

Scientists challenge General Relativity. And Mr. Einstein wins again – “New data show that a mathematical constant that’s fundamental to our understanding of particle physics remains the same on Earth today as it did half way across the universe and billions of years ago. And an unusual object 1,700 light-years away has verified Einstein’s general relativity theory of gravity with a type of measurement never made before…”

Study: Perception of hole size influenced by performance – “Golfers who play well are more likely to see the hole as larger than their poor-playing counterparts, according to a Purdue University researcher…”

What’s Inside: ‘Just for Men’ Hair Color – An explanation of the ingredients and what they do.

Google slams Bell Canada: open Internet is “extraordinary” – “a gulf the size of Nunavut separates the huge ISPs from web-based companies and consumer groups. Large incumbents Rogers and Telus have no problems with Bell’s approach (Rogers even admits to doing a bit of P2P throttling itself), while Google steps up to press its claim that “the open Internet is extraordinary” and that carriers need to stop building “their business model around managing scarcity.”"

Dominance in Space Slips as Other Nations Step Up Efforts – “Space, like Earth below, is globalizing. And as it does, America’s long-held superiority in exploring, exploiting and commercializing “the final frontier” is slipping away, many experts believe…”

Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble? – “By analyzing oil prices over the past four years, the researchers have demonstrated more support for the hypothesis that the recent oil price run-up has less to do with supply-demand interplay and more to do with speculation…”

Mystery of the meat-eaters’ molecule – “Our inability to produce a chemical present in every other primate may be linked to a series of chronic diseases. Roger Highfield explains more…”

Do More Than Just Game on Your Xbox 360 – “Millions of homes have an Xbox 360 sitting in the living room, but if you’re only using your 360 to game, you’re missing out. With some free tools and a little elbow grease, that compact, networked PC sitting under your television can offer a whole lot of useful media functionality. The fact is, your 360 is capable of so much more than just gaming. Let’s take a look at a few ways you can get more from your Xbox 360…”

Supercomputing at Oak Ridge – “If you didn’t know it was there, you’d have no idea that deep in the Tennessee woods, about a 20-minute drive from Knoxville, is one of the world’s great supercomputer labs. It’s no accident, of course. The facility is part of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the world’s leading research institutions and the site of the reactor in which plutonium for the first atomic bombs was refined during World War II…”

Corals, Already in Danger, Are Facing New Threat From Farmed Algae – “This equatorial island of 4,000 people is the latest victim of a 30-year global effort to encourage poor people in the coastal areas of the tropics to grow seaweed that, while not edible, produces carrageenan, an increasingly sought-after binder and fat substitute used in the food industry, notably in ice cream…”

The Migration History of Humans: DNA Study Traces Human Origins Across the Continents – “# The latest studies survey swathes of entire genomes and produce maps of human movements across much of the world. They also describe how people’s genes have adapted to changes in diet, climate and disease…”

iPhone 3G Reviews Are In – “The first iPhone 3G reviews have just hit, from Walt Mossberg of the WSJ and All Things D, Ed Baig from USA Today and David Pogue from the NYTimes. No one goes deep into the app store but here’s what they think…”

Don’t Buy an iPhone 3G – “Sure, the Apple iPhone 3G will be a great smartphone, but it comes with some serious shortcomings…”

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