Income inequality in the United States is not far from where it was at the height of the robber baron age. The Christian Science Monitors’ assessment of what that might mean for the future sounds to this cynical soul like a catalog of the recent past.

Sounds pretty shaky to me, but the Guardian is reporting that red rain that fell in Kerala, India for two months in 2001 might just be biological extraterrestrial material distributed by a meteorite.

According to Wired, flexible displays are passè. The new hotness is silicon chips that can stretch up to 100 percent.

Things must be getting really desperate in Iraq if the military is asking for a chemical spray to decommission small arms.

Demonizing smokers is so 2004. Evidently the next big health crisis–or one of them, anyway– is a looming obesity epidemic. The surgeon general is so concerned about it he’s invoking 9/11, which is sure to win him fans everywhere.