Sports and Fitness

From the US Department of the Interior: Dear Friends, It’s time to fall in love all over again! We’re getting ready for our annual Valentine’s Day video, and we need your help. Share your love story with us. Send us your videos and photos of of your weddings or proposals in national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands. more »

Hyunwoo Yuk says an immediate application of the technology may be as a stretchable, on-demand treatment for burns or other skin conditions. "The unique capability here is, when a sensor senses something different, like an abnormal increase in temperature, the device can on demand release drugs to that specific location and select a specific drug from one of the reservoirs." more »

New York and Nevada have banned the sites, labeling the games illegal gambling — rulings that the sites are challenging. But many more states are working on legislation for upcoming sessions that would subject the games to oversight or licensing. California law has a "predominant purpose test," which determines an activity to be gambling if greater than 50 percent of the outcome is derived from luck. In New York, the state has something called the "material element test," which determines that the activity is one of chance, as long as chance plays a "material role" in the outcome. more »

Julia Sneden writes and rhymes about bathing suit shopping: It's an annual chore for most people, this business of buying a bathing suit. For me, it comes around every six months or so. With older women and men doing water aerobics and swimming laps, wouldn't you think the bathing suit manufacturers would twig to the idea that there’s a huge market out here? We buy suits more often than teenagers do, because we're harder on them more »