Those of us who watch TV shows like "Mad Men" and movies like "Wall Street," assume that CEOs lead more stressful lives than the rest of us–but actually, the opposite is true. It turns out that heart attacks happen more often to the people who work under them.
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We may find insects annoying, but one scientist thinks that they can be bioengineered to save the world. Using bits and pieces of DNA from different species, he wants to create "designer bugs" to do specific tasks, such as clean up our environment. But what if they get away and take over, the way GM fish and seeds have done?
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Some day we’ll all be tourists in space, but for now, tourists are streaming into Mexican border towns, not to buy drugs (at least not the illicit kind), but for medical procedures that are much cheaper there–and often done by US-trained dentists and physicians.
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Despite increasing numbers of multiethnic neighborhoods in the United States, relatively few black or white families are actually moving into these them.
This segregation doesn’t just happen in the US–it’s prevalent all over the world. The Economist talks about how, for thousands of years, cities have been divided along racial lines. During the period of colonialism, white Europeans grabbed the safest, healthiest and nicest parts of the urban landscape for themselves.
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