The Inevitability of Bumps
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People who fly a lot tend to be nonchalant about the experience â until the plane hits a patch of choppy air. But airliners are built to take the turbulence.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep.
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It couldn't happen to a better set of people. As 'BusinessWeek' reports, MySQL is well on its way to an IPO. The interesting thing is what it's doing to get there. From CNET's Blogs network.
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Plastic surgeons and makers of silicone breast implants are gearing up for a boom in sales. The only question: How big of a windfall can they expect?
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By Beth Velliquette, The Herald-Sun, Durham, N.C.  Jun.
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Rise of the Machinesâ¢ scuttles a little closer
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If the load of application relies on incoming events, you may eventually face the happy curse of popularity: too much work to do with your available resources. If you set a limit on how many events you can process within a time period, you can avoid the flood. Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski explains the algorithm and demonstrates working code.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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There's a hidden promise in these results.
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Options, options, options -- when will the madness end?
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By David Pollak, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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A simple question yields a surprising answer.
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Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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Ultrasmall technology, revolutionary impact.
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Researchers at Merck can use neural stem-cell tech in early stages of drug development. Plus: Pay for eggs OK in Britain. In Bodyhack.
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Coincidence or foresight? A mysteriously prescient note about a wrestlerâs wifeâs death highlights the predictive possibilities of the internet.