Scare stories are bad for our health

Are you a cowering, diet-obsessed wreck, meticulously measuring your carbs and counting out individual salt granules on to your plate? Headlines like "Tackling the obesity epidemic", and "Food additives murdered my horse" (OK, we made the second one up) can't help to steady your stress levels.

Don't Say 'Stay-At-Home Mom'

Whether she has a regular job or not, a mom will always find something to feel bad about.

Cut-and-paste simplicity for computer animation

Tools developed by European researchers bring cut-and-paste simplicity to gaming and animation. Users will be able to cut-and-paste complex elements like emotion, tone of voice and facial expression, making compelling new content, cheaply and quickly.

Vuvuzelas silenced

However, a regrettable fallout from Mzansi 2010 is the fact that not many sporting disciplines will tolerate the 127 decibel horn the vuvuzela. Brazil says it is likely to ban the vuvuzela at the 2014 World Cup which it is hosting.

Gillard abandons leadership on climate change

It's hard to describe just how truly wretched Labor's new climate change policy is. It makes the CPRS, its dog of an emissions trading scheme, look like a model of best practice.