Photo by Eole Wind. 

How can someone be a blind photographer? Or rather, why would someone want to be? A new exhibit on display at the University of California Riverside/California Museum of Photography explores these questions, through art created by some of the world's most renowned blind photographers.

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Imagine sleeping in a burger, on a pirate ship or in a bed of roses. Well, now you can.

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As the recession leaves other media industries in tatters, the oldest mass medium of all is holding up surprisingly well.

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For those who want to connect or reconnect with others, social-networking sites are a huge, glorious honeypot. But for those who are disconnecting, they can make things quite sticky. And as the age of online-social-network users creeps up, it overlaps more with the age of divorce-lawyer users, resulting in the kind of semipublic laundry-airing that can turn aggrieved spouses into enraged ones and friends into embarrassed spectators.

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Making roofs white "changes the reflectivity . . . of the Earth, so the sunlight comes in, it's reflected back into space," Energy Secretary Steven Chu said. "This is something very simple that we can do immediately."

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In a bid to send zero waste to landfills by 2020, the city has passed new recycling and composting requirements. Under the new ordinance, residents will be issued three mandatory garbage bins: a black one for trash, a blue one for recyclables and a green one for compost.

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As airlines stuff more seats into jets, the room given each row may shrink.

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The over-the-counter products contain zinc, an ingredient scientists say may damage nerves in the nose needed for smell. The other products affected by the Food and Drug Administration's announcement are adult and kid-size Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Swabs.

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Photo by Pandiyan. 

Long before the days of Google Book Search and the Amazon Kindle was the library, a place of learning and advancement. Here are seven of the most impressive libraries in history, places of intrigue and inspiration.

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Over the past four years, Ripley's Believe It or Not! has been on an expansion binge. It opened big new museums in New York, London, San Antonio and Bangalore, India. Four more are to open by mid-2010, in Veracruz, Mexico; Bahrain; Jeju, South Korea; and Surfer's Paradise, Australia. As a result, the company says, it is for the first time in its history facing a shortage of A-list oddities on par with the portrait of Barack Obama made of 12,000 gum balls in New York, the three shrunken heads on display in London and the vampire-killing kit from the mid-1800s at the Tennessee museum.

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The program is intended to eliminate clinic waits or costs and targets young women of color. There will be 10,000 kits available immediately.

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The new bacteria species was found nearly 2 miles beneath a Greenland glacier, where temperatures can dip well below freezing, pressure soars, and food and oxygen are scarce.

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A home for the aged in the Bronx offers a dusk-to-dawn drop-off program to help combat the night terrors that can strike people with dementia.

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The Transportation Security Administration is getting ready to take over responsibility from the airlines for checking passengers’ names against terrorist watch lists, and is advising travelers to start booking airline tickets using their full name as it appears on their driver’s license or passport.

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The recession is battering organizations that provide medical treatment to children in developing countries, forcing several groups to treat fewer children as they scale back medical missions and limit hospital care.

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Hundreds of gulls were killed or maimed in Cleveland after what investigators believe was cooking oil spewed from a sewer pipe into the Cuyahoga River.

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Photo Nicolai Kjaergaard. 

The Smiths and photographer Gina Kelly hadn't authorized anyone to use the pictures. Kelly said she has asked a professional photographers' organization to help figure out how her image wound up in Prague.

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