"The whiter your bread, the sooner you’re dead" If you were brought up with that axiom hammered into your brain, listen up! There’s hope for you white bread lovers! ConAgra Foods is coming out with a new flour called Ultragrain, which may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. The new healthier flour is supposed to result in a loaf that feels like white and tastes like white, and looks a little like white, but has all the good stuff in the all grain breads.

Moonshine 102. As reported in FORTUNE, biodynamics is a radical viticultural method whose proponents claim it produces superior wines by combining elements of astrology and homeopathy with organic grape growing. A noted sommelier is quoted as saying "The biodynamics movement seems like latent 60’s acid-trip inspired lunacy…until you taste the wines."

The rise of 'Digital People'. Tales about artificial beings have sparked fascination and fear for centuries; No scientists and engineers spearheading the creation of artificial beings and bionic people are responding to the magnetism of the technological imperative, the pull of a scientific problem as challenging as any imaginable... now, for the first time in history, the means might be at hand to make beings that pass that test and others. Advances in a host of areas-digital electronics and computational technology, artificial intelligence , nanotechnology, molecular biology, and materials science, among others - enable the creation of beings that act and look human. MSNBC