Are driverless cars in the near future?



Forget gas there is a growing Helium crisis too. It also produced one of the funniest quotes from a Bureau of Land Management spokesman who said "that the nation's demand for helium has just ballooned in recent years,"



I always say at New Years that we are only celebrating the Earth making it around the sun one more time. However, my statement was slightly off since as of Jan 1st the Earth still had 400,000 miles to travel. Here's a pretty interesting article about the speed the Earth is traveling, 67,779 mph or 65,542 mph in July, how fast we are spinning, 1,029 mph at the equator, the shrinking calendar year, and how Oct 10, 1582 doesn't exist.

Fat corpses problem at morgues. I don't even know what to say about this article. But estimates are that "By 2010, the U.S. market could yield more than $1 billion in revenue, according to market analysts Frost & Sullivan."