Feb 27 2010

Depression’s Upside

Is there an evolutionary purpose to feeling really sad?

Feb 27 2010

Sweden Wins Gold in Women’s Curling

Sweden beat a Canadian team cheered by a cowbell-clanging crowd.

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Feb 27 2010

The Medium: Framing Childhood

Has the curating of digital photos come to define modern parenting?

Feb 27 2010

Diagnosis: Fainting Spells

A woman keeps passing out, and no one can figure out why.

Feb 27 2010

Italian Billionaire Surrenders to Police in Money Laundering Probe

Silvio Scaglia, who founded Fastweb, Italy’s biggest telecommunications company after Telecom Italia, surrendered after arriving in Italy early Friday.

Feb 27 2010

Riesch Wins Slalom; Vonn Misses a Gate

Lindsey Vonn, who won gold in her first event in Vancouver, the women’s downhill, failed to finish three of her next four events.

Feb 27 2010

City Critic: Seeing POD People? It’s No Sci-Fi Film

The city has dispatched a vaccination team to some Jewish enclaves in Brooklyn to battle a mumps outbreak, where doctors have discovered an epidemiological oddity.

Feb 27 2010

The TV Watch: Parties Jousting With Dire Warnings

Narrative choices designed to frighten were at the heart of the marathon health care summit meeting on Thursday.

Feb 27 2010

What We’re Reading: Art Fraud, Steve Jobs and Citibank

Technology tidbits from around the Web selected by Times technology journalists.

Feb 26 2010

One on One: Esther Dyson, Health Tech Investor and Space Tourist

Esther Dyson, investor and technologist, discusses technology that tracks your health and why she thinks you will want to use it.

Feb 26 2010

Observatory: Converting Body Movements Into Electricity

Researchers at Princeton said they found a way to harvest the body’s energy using piezoelectric crystals, an application that could first be used in shoes to keep a music player charged.

Feb 26 2010

Observatory: Some Fish Use UV Patterns to Recognize Species

New research provides support for the idea that some fish use ultraviolet light as a means of communication.

Feb 26 2010

Observatory: Yeast Makes Temperatures Rise, Too

Researchers in Spain found that yeast brought to the dungwort plant by pollinating bumblebees warmed the plant’s nectar and the flower itself.

Feb 26 2010

When It Comes to Content, Amazon’s Kindle Won’t Be Undersold

Amazon.com is pushing newspaper, magazine and book publishers to guarantee that Kindle customers will get the lowest prices on electronic content. In return, publishers may get a bigger cut of the revenue.

Feb 26 2010

The Online Private Sale Trend Packs Its Bags

A new site called PackLate wants to offer steep discounts on last-minute vacations, using an approach that’s similar to private-sale fashion sites.

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