New study out of NYU "discovers" that blogosphere "chatter" about an album is directly correlated to that album's sales. Yahoo will reject Microsoft's buy-out bid of $44.6 billion, claiming that the figure "massively undervalues" the company. Analysts, on the other hand, believe that Yahoo's acceptance of the buy-out offer is only a matter of time. Today, Austin's City Hall will discuss a recent study showing the economic impact of a proposed medical school for the Austin area....

O.J. Simpson is just weird. Bush to appoint new legal yes-man, er, we mean Attorney General. Greenspan says Iraq War was mostly just about gettin' our grubby hands on some of that cheap oil. The world's top 10 most polluted places, according to Scientific American. Get your iPhone unlocked for, like, $50. Our legs are really, really sore from ACL. Another effect of global warming: The unthawing of prehistoric mammoth dung, which stinks!......

You figure with all the research on mice these days, it's gonna be The Secret of NIHM everywhere soon enough. The latest batch of wunderkind rodents is bolstering research on free radicals being a major contributor to the aging process. Free radicals are, of course, free-floating molecules with unpaired electrons. Over at the University of Washington, Peter S. Rabinovitch and his wacky crew cooked up a batch of mice that produced large amounts of the......