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You no longer have to be judged for drinking wine from a Pringles can. An Etsy shop is selling tumblers with the Pringles logo printed on them. After a woman in Texas made headlines for getting banned from a Walmart when she was accused of riding around their parking lot on an electric shopping cart, drinking wine from a Pringles can, the idea for a cleaner wine container came about... “Great for your friends or moms that endure long trips in Walmart and need to drink wine from a Pringles can,” it reads.

Genesis Science Is Practical, Not Just Academic by James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D. * “It doesn’t really matter, in the real world, what you believe about creation or evolution,” the college student glibly challenged me. “Whether the evolutionists are right or whether Genesis is right makes no practical difference in how science works or in how people live their lives.” With a grin and a wave of his hand, the sophomore dismissed the real-world relevance of biblical creation as if it were no more practical than evolutionary myths. Was he correct? Is the Genesis record of God’s creation (and...

With a new printing technique, researchers can now make enough metamaterials to begin fabricating invisibility cloaks and superlenses.A new printing method makes it possible to produce large sheets of metamaterials, a new class of materials designed to interact with light in ways no natural materials can. For several years, researchers working on these materials have promised invisibility cloaks, ultrahigh-resolution "superlenses," and other exotic optical devices straight from the pages of science fiction. But the materials were confined to small lab demonstrations because there was no way to make them in large enough quantities to demonstrate a practical device. "Everyone has,...

Medicare and Medicaid are to be headed by a new Obama appointee, and I smell trouble. Robert Pear of the New York Times reports: President Obama will soon name Dr. Donald M. Berwick, an iconoclastic scholar of health policy, to run Medicare and Medicaid, the programs that serve nearly one-third of all Americans, administration officials said Saturday. This is a crucial appointment: The law, signed Tuesday by Mr. Obama, will expand Medicaid to cover 16 million more people, squeeze nearly a half-trillion dollars out of Medicare in the next 10 years and establish many demonstration projects to test innovative ways...

Homeland security chief defends Bush plan, says border eventually will be impenetrable In defending President Bush's so-called "guest worker" program for illegal aliens – which critics have dubbed an amnesty program – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says it's just not practical to deport the millions of foreigners in the country illegally. "The cost of identifying all of those people and sending them back would be stupendous. It would be billions and billions of dollars," Chertoff told Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel program "Hannity & Colmes" last night. "One of the reasons I think that we've been focusing...

Preaching abundant living The Rev. Della Reese Lett teaches lessons of material success and personal empowerment in her own church. Della Reese, who played a down-to-earth heavenly being on "Touched by an Angel" isn't acting as she stands in front of a congregation on Sundays in West Hollywood. She's preaching — in her own church. And her message has no mention of sin, no mention of good and evil and no endorsement of sacrifice if it means doing without. She talks about abundant living, not in the hereafter but in the here and now.

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- In addressing the issue of immigration, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that the U.S. must "make sure that we are securing our borders and that we are doing it in a way that protects our society," but added that terrorism is not a "real threat" from Mexico. In an interview with the Univision Television Network, Secretary Powell said that people from Mexico come to the U.S. to "earn a living, in order to raise families." "Mexicans make an important contribution to the United States economy and to the United States society and culture, and...

  You are here:   Home > Tech News > Culture > Magnets Levitate Travelers Magnets Levitate Travelers Inventor develops new magnetic levitation system that could shake up the nation's transportation system. By Matt Markovich, Tech LiveJune 21, 2002   In the new movie "Minority Report," Tom Cruise plays a cop who chases after criminals before they commit a crime. The movie portrays a futuristic world of magnetically levitating cars riding on cushions of air. Not only do people drive across town over a bed of magnets, but roads go up and down the sides of buildings. As "Tech Live" reports...