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Exhibitionists might just decide to fly more often, following an announcement by the federal government on Jan. 5, 2010, that, in order to increase security at Canadian airports, full body scanners would be pressed...

If you’re one of those people who sit up at night, worrying about what radiation is doing to you, you might be worried about the new airport scanners described in the adjacent article. After...

The natural forces that shaped our planet, such as the formation of oceans, seas and ice ages are gradual processes that take thousands if not millions of years. Right? Wrong! According to several studies,...

Last month Facebook.com prompted its 350 million users to update their privacy settings. Given the option to keep their old privacy settings or allow everyone to view their entire profile — the new default...

Hello, is anyone there? Hoo, I have no way of telling if my words will ever reach you, since I can only broadcast, not receive. I have cobbled this transmitter from things I have...

Ah the top-X-list. A succinct way to sum up a period of time, and neatly wrap up a decade that had nearly as many names — the “naughties,” “noughts,” “oughts,” — as it did...

I am a child of the 1980s, and therefore lived in what is quite possibly the worst decade for cars in the history of that four-wheeled invention. The K-car still sends shudders down my...