John Schwartz and Andrew Pollack report in The New York Times: A federal judge on Monday struck down patents on two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. The decision, if upheld, could throw into doubt the patents covering thousands of human genes and reshape the law of intellectual property. Judge...

After reading some of the definitive commentary on the iPad I think this paragraph in David Pogue’s article sums it up: It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff. On the other hand, it’s infinitely more convenient for consuming it — books, music, video, photos, Web, e-mail and so on. For...

The good news: the latest jobs report says that over 150,000 jobs were created in March. Tom Schaller explains the bad news: Of course, the economy needs to add about 150,000 jobs just to keep up with growth of the working-age population, which is why 162K is basically a break-even figure. Moreover,...

Anyone else see Google’s April Fools yesterday?  (Google is Topeka) Whenever Google does something disconcerting with its layout, I’m struck by the layout itself – the clean white page, the clever renditions of the logo, The Text Box. I like it. I think it’s ingeniously, elegantly simple....

There’s been a fringe campaign on the right for a little time now to get Americans to fill out their census forms lead by the infamously crazy Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann who likes to make up an alternate American history and present it as the actual American history. She’s...

Now this is just crazy. Newark is celebrating its first murder-free month in 44 years. Yeah, you read that right. 44.  Way to go. –Daniel Strauss