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Nine months since last case of crippling disease in India

By Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - More districts of Thailand's capital were on high alert on Monday with floods bearing down from northern Bangkok as authorities raced to pump water toward the sea and defend the business district. [More]

Breaking news from your editor at Fast Company, with updates all day. Netflix Will Stream To U.K.

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Art and politics don’t generally mix. Just ask Spanish painter Francisco Goya

In a 2007 Vanity Fair article Christopher Hitchens asked: Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women? Well a recent study finds that men might have a tiny edge over women in producing humor but the gap is too small to account for the stereotype. [More]

A once-buff Utah personal trainer has deliberately stopped exercising and watching his diet in an effort to empathize with overweight clients.

* Quake was magnitude 7.2, Turkish observatory says * Up to 1,000 may have been killed [More]

Climate change is hard to hide, but the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is trying anyway.

A homeless woman with Stage 4 breast cancer found a way to beat the odds with help from an unlikely friend.

Edwina Sanders, who carried Stage 4 breast cancer, found a way to beat the odds -- with help from an unlikely friend

In last 2 years $760M was paid by companies that account for 40% of U.S. drug sales; Do payments compromise patient care?

Pluto Might Be the Largest Dwarf Planet, After All For years Pluto has appeared to rank behind its fellow dwarf planet Eris in terms of diameter. New data, however, have cut Eris down to size [More]

“The human genome was sequenced, and in the process of moving that forward the technology that was developed was incredible. And because of their efforts in the human genome, that technology is available to folks like us.” Northern Arizona University’s Paul Keim at the ScienceWriters2011 conference. The ability to compare genomes is a powerful tool for identifying the origins of a natural disease outbreak or bioterrorism

It's not enough for video game makers to hype new franchises and titles with a sleek ad campaign and a trailer, these days. They're running huge events--like BlizzCon, today--sometimes at a loss, to keep fans engaged.