Holden researches "psychache," or unbearable psychological pain, and how it relates to suicidal behaviour..."If they wish to address this sort of psychache then I think they need to focus in on which particular frustrated need is relevant for that particular individual," Holden said.
—Laura Payton, "Prisons must work to prevent suicides: expert," Toronto Sun, April 5, 2010

A growing group of jobless across the nation are joining a self-proclaimed movement: 'funemployment.' It's a group of jovial unemployed who say they're finally doing what they've always wanted to do — whether it is blogging or starting a nonprofit.
—Elizabeth Prann, "The Happy Unemployed," Liveshots (Fox News), July 18, 2010

AA patrols claim MP3s, mobile phones and other high-tech devices are becoming a deadly distraction. AA president Edmund King, said: "We can't stop the march of technology, but we need to halt the iPod pedestrian, cycle and driver zombies. Whether on two feet, two wheels or four, too many people are suffering from so-called iPod oblivion."
—Mark Ellis, "The iPodestrians: 17 road accidents a day caused by people listening to gadgets," The Mirror, August 8, 2010

Here's another thought, lifted from Ridley's inspiring book: "The 21st century will be a magnificent time to be alive," he says, a message which deserves to be disseminated far beyond the literary pages, so as to reach everyone from Neets and unemployed graduates to Lib Dems who cannot believe what they have got themselves into.
—Catherine Bennett, "Phew. At last we can ignore the gurus peddling happiness," The Observer, June 27, 2010

The troubled economy and changing technology have already fueled a do-it-yourself education reform movement dubbed "edupunk," which envisions virtual campuses and lower-cost or even free instruction. The edupunks are picking up where traditional institutions left off.
—Patrick Arden, "Will NYC's College Building Boom Bubble Pop?," The Village Voice, July 27, 2010

Now a nonprofit educational enterprise, the manor is among the New York-area farms attracting locavores, green-minded students and urbanites suffering from nature-deficit disorder who yearn to raise produce and livestock for a day, a week or longer.
—Kathryn Shattuck, "City Slickers Take to the Crops, With Song," The New York Times, May 28, 2010

To allow people to escape from negative scores generated by these services, Zittrain says that people should be allowed to declare 'reputation bankruptcy' every 10 years or so, wiping out certain categories of ratings or sensitive information. His model is the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which requires consumer-reporting agencies to provide you with one free credit report a year — so you can dispute negative or inaccurate information — and prohibits the agencies from retaining negative information about bankruptcies, late payments or tax liens for more than 10 years.
—Jeffrey Rosen, "The Web Means the End of Forgetting," The New York Times, July 19, 2010

"For example, when we started, 87 per cent of the owners said 'range anxiety' — a concern that the car would run out of power and strand them — was their biggest concern about an electric car. "Now that they have some real-world experience with (the 135 km range of ) the car, they know how far (or, actually, how little) they drive, where they can recharge, and so on. (Now) only 17 per cent still have that concern."
—Jim Kenzie, "First electric Smarts arrive in America," The Toronto Star, June 18, 2010

But there's something about the precision of a DNA test that can make people believe that chemistry is destiny—that it holds dark, implacable secrets. This is why genetic information is sometimes described as "toxic knowledge": Giving people direct access to their genetic information, in the words of Stanford bioethicist Hank Greely, is out and out "reckless."
—Thomas Goetz, "Sergey Brin's Search for a Parkinson's Cure," Wired, June 22, 2010

Data stored in digital photographs can help criminals locate individuals and plot real-world crimes, a practice two researchers called "cybercasing" in a recently published paper. The site Pleaserobme.com was one of the first to expose the problem by displaying tweets tagged with location information, although it has since stopped the practice.
—Niraj Chokshi, "How Tech-Savvy Thieves Could 'Cybercase' Your House," The Atlantic, July 22, 2010

Wonder how the Bush administration arranged for the destruction of the World Trade Center? Curious why the government planes are releasing toxic chemtrails into our atmosphere? Step right up, because for a record 26 days, KPFK-FM (90.7) not only provided answers but offered to hook you up with that sweet DVD set, unveiling the fuller, darker truth.
—James Rainey, "Schism at KPFK leaves factions warring over programming, fundraising and leadership," Los Angeles Times, March 27, 2010

One common bug that researchers have turned up is staphylococcus aureus, a classic causer of food poisoning, signs of which include nausea and diarrhea. Accordingly, stomach sicknesses caught from computer equipment have been dubbed "qwerty tummy" after the "Q-W-E-R-T-Y" keys on a keyboard.
—"Your keyboard can give you food poisoning," MSNBC.com, July 2, 2010