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Peter was gay; Raymond was a homophobe.

Why isn't a product line catching on? Your company may be offering too much.

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

The iPad magazine looks gorgeous and works about as well as Zite, Flipboard, et. al. It even understands if you're not into AOL content.

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?

Getting to work can be inhumanly stressful, boring, or logistically tricky--or, sometimes, all three. Here are four ways to arrive at work calmer, smarter, and without a lame excuse for being late. Technology can’t clear the idiots off the road on your drive to work, or improve the housing market so much that you’re no longer riding the train or bus

Damian Kulash and director Trish Sie walk us through the making of All Is Not Lost, and OK Go's approach to the music experience. In the course of producing its distinctive videos, OK Go has contended with the unpredictable ( dogs , toast ) and the potentially dangerous ( paint cannons , treadmills )

A new application for Facebook and iPhones lets residents of small cities submit quality-of-life complaints without picking up the phone or waiting to see someone at City Hall. It's like a cross between 311 and FarmVille--and it works

Working out has never been more efficient or a bigger part of a human culture than it is today. We've dug into the history of kinesiology to find the inventions and processes that changed exercise.

During the summer of 1963, when i was six years old, my family traveled from our home in Philadelphia to Los Angeles to visit my maternal relatives. I already knew my grandmother well: she helped my mother care for my twin brothers, who were only 18 months my junior, and me. When she was not with us, my grandmother lived with her mother, whom I met that summer for the first time.

As Ferrari’s more luxury-oriented corporate cousin, the modern Maserati has made a name for itself as a purveyor of stupendously customizable sporting cars. On all Maseratis, options for color customization are multitudinous, extending from obvious choices (paint, upholstery, dash trim) to minutiae (brake calipers, seat belts, stitching).

By order of the Shadow Proclamation (okay, Facebook), select episodes of Doctor Who will materialize online for fans around the world. Including one that's never been released before. The BBC, that venerable broadcaster adored by grandmas across the globe, is trying something new: Its Worldwide arm is putting select episodes of one of the BBC's content jewels, Doctor Who, online as a paid video-on-demand service on Facebook .

Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D.

It’s not that America has lost its ability to innovate.

A project of the Long Now Foundation, the aim is to make sure we preserve the knowledge contained in dying languages: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out." The Long Now Foundation--currently breaking ground in Texas at the future site of its first monument-sized 10,000-year clock --is pursuing several programs in addition to the clock. One of these, the Rosetta Project, takes as its daunting mission the documentation of every human language currently in use; some 7,000 in total, the majority of which are in danger of disappearing without a trace. Directing this ambitious venture is Laura Welcher, a linguist who has specialized in building archival resources for indigenous North American languages.