Americans Ingested Too Much Holiday E-Mail Spam, Survey Finds
Symantec also sees spammers trying new techniques, such as spamming via bot-net, audio and video spam, and spamming using protocols for IM, SMS, and online games.

New endeavors aim to build a better Internet
University of Washington computer scientist and search engine pioneer Oren Etzioni’s latest projects are providing a sneak preview of how online applications might look in a more intuitive Web 3.0 of the not-so-distant future.

CompUSA Sold, Will Close Stores; Expect Big Sales
Venerable electronics retailer CompUSA has been sold to an affiliate of restructuring firm Gordon Bros., and will close all of its retail stores.

Shift from landlines to mobile may be slowing
More than one in eight households have cell phones but lack traditional landline telephones, according to a federal study released Monday that tracks the country’s growing dependence on wireless phones.

Cyberlawyer 2.0 (The Economist Technology Quarterly)
Lawrence Lessig is known for his work at the interface between technology and law. Why is he shifting his focus to corruption?… Mr Lessig bemoaned that “copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again,” adding that congressmen are, indirectly, defending their “gravy train of contributions”.

Getting serious (The Economist Technology Quarterly)
Virtual worlds are being put to serious real-world uses—and are starting to encounter some real-world problems

The New New Philosophy (by Kwame Anthony Appiah, a philosopher at Princeton University, and the author of “Experiments in Ethics,” which will be published next month)
Philosophers don’t observe; we don’t experiment; we don’t measure; and we don’t count… But now a restive contingent of our tribe is convinced that it can shed light on traditional philosophical problems by going out and gathering information about what people actually think and say about our thought experiments.

Is hotness an inherited trait?
Like father, like son — sexy fathers can give rise to sexy sons in the insect world. Researchers suggest these findings might also apply to humans.

Herbal Extract Found To Increase Lifespan
ScienceDaily (Dec. 10, 2007) — The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant indigenous to the Arctic regions of Europe and Asia increased the lifespan of fruit fly populations, according to a University of California, Irvine study. Flies that ate a diet rich with Rhodiola rosea, an herbal supplement long used for its purported stress-relief effects, lived on an average of 10 percent longer than fly groups that didn’t eat the herb.

Antibacterial Chemical disrupts hormone activities
Davis, California -  A new UC Davis study shows that a common antibacterial chemical added to bath soaps can alter hormonal activity in rats and in human cells in the laboratory — and does so by a previously unreported mechanism… Called endocrine disruptors, or endocrine disrupting substances (EDS), such chemicals have been linked in animal studies to a variety of problems, including cancer, reproductive failure and developmental anomalies.

Scientists Strike Blow In Superbugs Struggle
ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2007) — Scientists from The University of Manchester have pioneered new ways of tweaking the molecular structure of antibiotics — an innovation that could be crucial in the fight against powerful super bugs.

Unrelated Cord Blood Helps Infants With Metabolic Disorders
It’s a viable option with lower risk of complications, study finds

Amount of Exercise Key to Lowering Kids’ Blood Pressure
Study finds total levels of activity more important than intensity

Vaccine Improves Event-free Survival For Leukemia Patients
ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2007) — Patients whose immune system responded to a peptide vaccine for leukemia enjoyed a median remission that was more than three times longer than non-responders, a team led by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology.

Good Physical Function Halves Stroke Risk
Researchers find pronounced effect in those over 40

High Meat Consumption Linked to Heightened Cancer Risk
U.S. study finds the more red meat and processed meat you eat, the higher the risk.

Coronary Artery Calcium May Raise Women’s Heart Risk
New study challenges traditional assessment of risk.

Hypertension Linked to Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment
Study suggests it may cause the effect through cerebrovascular disease

Rapid acceleration in human evolution described
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said on Monday. 

NASA puts off shuttle launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA postponed the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis to January after a sensor in an emergency engine cutoff system failed again on Sunday, once more delaying Europe’s major contribution to the International Space Station. 

Best Meteor Shower of 2007 Peaks Dec. 13
Here is what astronomers David Levy and Stephen Edberg have written of the annual Geminid Meteor Shower: “If you have not seen a mighty Geminid fireball arcing gracefully across an expanse of sky, then you have not seen a meteor.”

Scientists find the dent in our solar system
New observations from the edge of our solar system show what scientists have suspected for several years: The solar system is squashed.

First Sunset Outside Our Solar System Glimpsed
Traces of a distant extrasolar planet’s hazy red sunset have been detected for the first time. Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope HD 189733b, a gaseous Jupiter-like world about 63 light-years from Earth, as it passed in front of its parent star to catch a glimpse of the planet’s atmosphere.

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