Besides Their Value as Burgers and Handbags, Cows Can Also Point North

By Valencia Chang (08/25/2008 8:41 PM)

According to Google Earth satellite, cattles tend to face the North-South direction of the Earth's magnetic poles. So when you're uttlerly lost in the wild without a compass or the ability to read the stars, look for a cow.

Superman Gets Dark (No, Not by Getting More Sun)

By Valencia Chang (08/25/2008 8:33 PM)

Angsty, tortured superheroes appear to have more depth. The more directions they're pulled in by their responsibilities and desires, the better. The recent Spiderman and Batman flicks are prime examples of good looking men in pain (and in tights) that make big bucks in the bo

Movies Inspire Ritual Suicide

By Valencia Chang (08/21/2008 8:55 PM)

OK, the title of this article is a bit of a hyperbole. But it's true that movies, and the media in general, inspires a lot of damaging behavior by portraying them as cool. There's yet to be a movie glorifying ritual suicide in the U.S (Japan, however, is another matter), but smoking is some

Eau de Cancer

By Valencia Chang (08/20/2008 8:12 PM)

As scientists discover more and more things that cause cancer (like lotion, for instance), at least efforts and progress is constantly being made to fight cancer. Researchers have identified an "odor profile" for skin cancer, and a simple, non-invasive test could be developed to diagnosed the most common f

Heavy Users to be Curbed

By Valencia Chang (08/20/2008 7:56 PM)

...Internet users, that is. Comcast will proceed with plans to slow down connection speed for "heaviest users". This is essentially a method to punish users of BitTorrent, and other P2P sharing programs that hog the bandwidth. Of course, this plan say nothing about targetting BitTorrent users, bu

Death of Pandora

By Valencia Chang (08/19/2008 8:46 PM)

Internet radio led a glorious existence, quick to rise to popularity, but equally fast in sputtering out. Pandora, one of college students' most well-loved websites for music, is on the verge of shutting down. Founder Tim Westergren says that despite his website's immense popularity, there's jsut no way

Harry Potter Film to be Released Almost a Year Late

By Valencia Chang (08/18/2008 9:18 PM)

Are they worried that the next Harry Potter movie won't make enough money as a Thanksgiving movie? The producers have pushed the original Nov. 21 release date back to Jul. 18 of 2009.

Trust the studio to play it super-safe by making Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Pri