August 26, 2001 - Building a Jetsons-like Community - by Manny Frishberg, Wired News, SEATTLE -- A new kind of community is going up in the Seattle suburb of Renton, where wired homes will be connected to a neighborhood intranet via their television sets. When the 18-home Sundance community is ready in November, it will be the first "digital housing development" in the nation, according to Leo Shulman, the CEO of Vicinium, the software company providing the interactive systems...

  August 27, 2001 - Expert: Mars Astronauts Would Lose Teeth - By Larry O'Hanlon. Discovery News. Hopes for manned - and especially a "womaned" mission to Mars - might hinge on teeth. The bone-weakening effects of zero-gravity environments might lead to permanent tooth loss, says a government dentist...

  August 26, 2001 - Burden of mental illness in America falls on minorities - By Jacqueline Stenson, MSNBC. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26 -  Mental illness is equally common among Americans of all races, but minorities are far more likely to suffer the burden of undiagnosed, untreated psychological problems due to lack of health care coverage, language barriers and other factors, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher said Sunday...

  August 22, 2001 - Conformity rules in cyberspace - By Grace Malatesta. THE theory that the anonymity offered by the internet will free its users to behave outside social norms has been shown to be a myth by a study at Murdoch University's school of psychology. Surprising results from the research reveal internet chat-room users replicate social behavior from the off-line world, such as conforming to authority and peer pressure...

  August 21, 2001 - Chantal moves again over Yucatan - CHETUMAL, Mexico. Tropical Storm Chantal was moving again Tuesday after having stalled over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with fierce winds and rain, triggering 13-foot waves, snapping power lines and raising fears of major floods. Two fishermen were reported missing at sea, and 2,500 people were evacuated...

  August 17, 2001 - Taming the Web - Can the Internet be controlled? - By Charles C. Mann, TECHNOLOGY REVIEW.  "Information wants to be free." "The Internet can't be controlled." We've heard it so often that we sometimes take for granted that it's true. But the Internet can be controlled, and those who argue otherwise are hastening the day when it will be controlled too much, by the wrong people, and for the wrong reasons...

 August 2, 2001 - Gravity Hurts (so Good) - NASA News, "Strange things can happen to the human body when people venture into space -- and the familiar pull of gravity vanishes.  Gravity hurts: you can feel it hoisting a loaded backpack or pushing a bike up a hill. But lack of gravity hurts, too: when astronauts return from long-term stints in space, they sometimes need to be carried away in stretchers..."

 August 1, 2001 - The Tele-Actor - Experiments in Remote Control. Meet the Tele-Actor, a human robot. Your wish is its command. This new breed of robot combines five million years of human evolution with a new approach to audience participation...