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Middle East Turmoil Reflects Global Anxiety about Wheat

Underlying the wave of unrest across North Africa and the Middle East is the fact that some of the cries for democracy are coming from mouths in need of food. Media outlets around the world were quick to make the link between food and the protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria, pointing to one specific grain: wheat. Egypt is the largest importer of wheat in the world, with Algeria not far behind.

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Photo Sharing App Gets VC Boost

Legendary VC firms Sequoia and Bain Capital are investing $41 million in photo sharing app Color. And that's before the app had launched

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The Case for Boardroom Bullies

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.

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Marijuana and Maleness

The sex hormones that bathe a fetus in the womb are some of the earliest and most potent determinates of gender differences in brain structure and social behavior. But other chemicals produced by the human body more subtly tweak the neural pathways underlying these distinctions. Endocannabinoids, natural compounds in the brain that excite the same receptors as marijuana, influence gender-specific behaviors, according to a study published in November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

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Antimatter of Fact: Collider Generates Most Massive Antinucleus Yet

Most people know two things about helium. One is that it makes your voice comically high-pitched when you inhale it; the other is that it is extremely light, which is why balloons filled with the stuff float upward through the heavier air. But in particle physics terms--and especially when it comes to the nuclear physics of antimatter--helium is no lightweight.

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Video: The legality of health care reform

Katie Couric and CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford discuss the legal battles surrounding health care reform one year after it was first signed into law.

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