When do technology, education and privacy issues clash?

The Lower Merion School District (LMSD) in Pennsylvania has been accused of using laptop computers sent home with students to spy on their activities.

In a class action lawsuit filed on February 11, 2010, lawyers for Blake J. Robbins, a student at the high school, allege school administrators violated students privacy and civil rights by secretly activating an unknown security feature on the Apple laptops…

Considered one of the most common and safest methods used to removed gallstones or to remove an infected or inflamed gallbladder, cholecystectomy is a surgical procedure that has some risks associated with it.

According to the American College of Surgeons, infections, bile duct injury, bleeding, or injury to the intestines or abdominal organs are all possible health conditions that may result from the procedure. Death, however, is an “extremely rare” consequence in healthy people, with 0 to 1 per 1,000 patients reported…

An explosion of social connection tools like FaceBook, MySpace and Twitter in recent years has researchers studying their usability by and impact on various…

A Scarborough, Canada man — Paul Shishis — believes that most UFO sightings go unreported because people are afraid of ridicule or become frightened by the experience. But times are changing. Eyewitness accounts of unidentified objects are becoming more mainstream and are being covered by more medial outlets. Shishis says if you see anything, reporting is the key to documenting what you see…

A terminal disease is ravaging your body. Doctors have given you less than three weeks to live. Your cryonics membership is paid up, all of your legal affairs are in order, and your family understands your last wishes. A standby team is ready to step in once the attending physician pronounces you legally dead. You are about to be preserved, an act of faith in the hopes of being revived to live a healthy life sometime in the future…

It’s often said that the attention span of the average America is extremely limited when it comes to a discussion of in-depth issues. If it doesn’t fit in a 30-second commercial, a nightly news sound bite, or a quick discussion at the office cooler, conventional wisdom says most people aren’t interested. However, the past few weeks have proven that Americans are intensely engaged when it comes to the health care debate…