My friends at Bike Zambia have been working for months to raise both funds and awareness for local HIV/AIDS prevention with their 300-mile cross-country bike ride from the capital of Lusaka… Read the rest of the article: Bike Zambia to fight HIV/AIDS

Had a long layover in the Singapore airport the other day. What to do? Why, I visited the Fish Spa, of course, where for just S$30 (about US$23) I could… Read the rest of the article: The fish pedicure: a foot-holder's-eye view

Now that Watson has predictably used his inhuman buzzer skills to romp on non-inhumankind, what does the big lug do for a follow-up? Stephen Baker, who has written a whole… Read the rest of the article: What Watson might do after crushing humankind on Jeopardy

Thanks to my own 13 games of Jeopardy! and the book about it and all, lots of people (including the New York Times) have asked my opinion about the whole… Read the rest of the article: IBM's "Watson" Jeopardy! computer: it's all about the digits

Finally! A way to confess your sins with one hand while possibly still committing them with the other: Confession: a Roman Catholic App comes with "a personalized examination of conscience… Read the rest of the article: iPhone confession app for sinners on the go

ScotteVest, tech- and travel-friendly clothing makers mentioned here periodically since 2001 ("nerdwear of the first water" it was called then), started something called the "No Baggage Challenge" last year. Travel… Read the rest of the article: Round-the-world with no bags for 90 days for charity

The folks at Hollaback! came up with a novel solution for combatting public sexual harassment of women: just grab your phone, take a picture of the chump, and upload it… Read the rest of the article: Hollaback: fighting street harassment, one uploaded nimrod at a time

Given the recent mournful Caprica love here, this should gladden a few toaster-loving hearts: former showrunner Jane Espenson and science advisor Kevin Grazier (a JPL astronomer who works on the… Read the rest of the article: Poster-sized map of BSG/Caprica 12 colonies

Missed in the brouhaha over Sarah Palin's verbal flub about our North Korean "allies," and much more telling: According to host Glenn Beck's own transcript, Beck's very next utterance was to proclaim… Read the rest of the article: Glenn Beck believes in four insane things before breakfast

(As part of his research for a book he's writing on microfinance, Bob Harris took a trip through the Peruvian Andes, including Cusco, Lake Titicaca, Machu Picchu, where he studied… Read the rest of the article: A trip to the Peruvian Andes