The Food and Drug Administration warned five electronic cigarette makers today that they are violating federal law.  The agency said the products, which use a device to turn nicotine liquid into a vapor mist, are drugs that require FDA approval ...

Reprint of an article in The Madison Institute Newsletter, Fall Issue, 1894:On the Conduct and ProcedureOf the Intimate and Personal RelationshipsOf the Marriage StateFor the Greater Spiritual SanctityOf this Blessed SacramentAnd the Glory of Godby Ruth SmythersBeloved wife of The Reverend L.D. Smythers,Pastor of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional ConferencePublished in the year of our Lord 1894Spiritual Guidance Press, New York CitySample:

Google Instant is basically a way to show you results as you type, sort of like your browser's ability to complete a URL as you type it in.  Estimate: 2-5 seconds saved per Google Instant search and maybe even optimizing your search when you are not sure exactly what you want or how to spell it.To allay concerns that results for improper words don't show up, like the first three letters of the word 'assign' showing you things you don't want your kids to see, filters are still in place and they say Google Instant is deactivated for slow connections.

The LA Times shows our Science 2.0 There's Science To Dancing Also article some love.A study was done at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom identifying the dance moves that attract women to men. Here is what the research found...

Some Facebook tips from CNN guest columnists Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich, Ehrlich being editor at Mashable.com and Bartz editor at PsychologyToday.com:

Facebook gets a lot of attention for being, uh, your space -- a handful of entry fields in which to sum up your awesomeness, right down to the bewildering "Write something about yourself" box. Researchers fixate on what your profile says about you, while increasingly complex pages, plug-ins and boxes (what are those all about, anyway?) make it clear that Facebook is all about you.Still, at least one tab of your Facebook profile is largely left to others' devices: the wall.

Oddly, the company won’t disclose the size of the round, other than to say it’s a typical series A round, which implies $5 million or so.

Are airplane pilots more reliable witnesses than others, lending more credibility to UFO sightings?Rob Britt at Livescience: An interesting argument is playing out in the Space section of MSNBC. It began when veteran space reporter James Oberg questioned the foundation of a new book about UFOs called "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record."

You've probably never heard of "Newt" unless you are an animated film aficionado.   Not to worry, Disney/Pixar has cancelled it anyway.  Nothing new, studios cancel things all of the time if they don't pan out as being quality stuff.   But on their Facebook page they at least posted some cool art from the cartoon-you-will-never see.  Smart move.  They will get a ton of free attention for a picture that people likely would have hated and so didn't want to finish.

In 1977, Harrison Ford had a sporadic career and was mostly a carpenter but he had done another film with George Lucas and sat down with KXAS-TV reporter Bobbie Wygant to discuss it. The new project? "Star Wars". Next stop: mega stardom.

CERN owes its historic aversion to patenting to its 20 European member states, says spokesman James Gillies. They pump millions of euros into the organisation every year to help develop new technologies – and don't want to have to pay to use the inventions in their own country. "So we have to square a circle: how do we protect the technology without double-billing member states?"Last week, it struck a deal with the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to ensure that it profits better from its engineers' innovations.