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Nearly 40 years after Mel Brooks breathed new life into Frankenstein, his son, Max, author of "World War Z," is unearthing that other undead goldmine: zombies. You'd think the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft would have settled into a nice comfortable comedy writing gig. But since his days writing for Saturday Night Live, Max Brooks has instead forged a career in an unlikely niche: zombie expert

Want to get in on the action at fashion week? Here's a look at how some small businesses are using the event to market their brands

What makes a product magnetic--irresistible to customers of many stripes, and preferred over its closest competitor by 5:1, 7:1 or 10:1?

By Gerard Wynn 500 MILES FROM THE NORTH POLE (Reuters) - Stepping onto an Arctic ice floe on Monday, an unusually mild, easterly breeze blew at the end of the annual summer melt. The footprints of two polar bears from the night before were disintegrating in a dusting of snow.

Good ideas that work aren't always as "nice" as we'd like.

Want to wake up to something besides murderous rage at a blaring klaxon? These alarms use people, podcasts, and science to help you rise without raising your ire. If you own a smartphone, it's easy to gaze at an old-fashioned, single-purpose alarm clocks and conclude it doesn't do nearly enough.

Given the modern scale of Facebook-- deals with Ticketmaster , moving to a huge new campus , and everybody you know using it--it’s hard to imagine the company moving fast enough to mimic the features of the social network Google launched just two months ago. But anyone who’s spent 10 minutes inside Google+ will see quite a few similarities to what’s coming to their Facebook account

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Rioters chose RIM. But Twitter and Facebook's new mob mostly carry brooms. "It's Like Hogwarts," says an observer

The idea is simple: supply people with smart meters that give real time information on electricity use and price. Armed with the new information, consumers might opt to plug in their laptop in the middle of the night instead of, say, the middle of the day. As a bonus, the system would lead to more use of renewable energy sources like the wind and sun

That's right--when you reach for your cell phone, though you are unprovoked by a beep or a hum, you are a slave of biology. And of our modern-day dependency on gadgets. You might laugh, but do you find yourself reaching for a vibrating phone in your pocket, only to discover that it's not there?

Caitlin Shetterly, 36, knows how to eat on the cheap: In 2009, her husband, Dan, lost his job and the couple and their newborn baby moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, to live with Shetterly's mother until they could get back on their feet. Her new book Made For You and Me chronicles the family’s journey, including how they managed to eat well—and organic—on very little. (Their grocery bill, including feeding two adults, a baby and two pets, was about $88/week.) Here's how they did it

Tired of watching the Hollywood machine engulf the San Diego Comic-Con, two Pixar artists have taken matters into their own hands and opened Trickster, an enclave for comic book fans, right across the street from the convention center. Whatever you do, don't call them Slamdance for Comic-Con. After years of watching the Hollywood machine slowly engulf the San Diego Comic-Con, Pixar story artists Scott Morse and Ted Mathot this year have staked out a creators' enclave across the street from the convention center.

Solar panels give you clean energy, yes, but it turns out that's not all. Just by putting them on the roof, you'll start saving cash on your cooling and heating bills. Installing photovoltaic solar cells is a great way to easily tap into an environmentally-sustainable energy source, and in sunnier parts of the world it's even feasible to use them to actually make money by selling power back to the grid as part of a smart grid installation