Who owns ideas now?

When you download music or text from the web, you may be innocently breaking the law. Jim Lebans, a producer with CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, looks at the tangled world of intellectual property and how the digital age is challenging ideas about who owns our culture. These legal rights were established over hundreds of years to reward creators of ideas, but at the same time preserve and protect the public's right to access and make use of the expression of ideas.

Click through to listen to a formal discussion about the new reality of intellectual property and copyright.

Lindros: Checking out the competition?

Then there’s this Lindros story :

The bathroom was relatively crowded — seeing Lindros in person, he was taller (and skinnier) than I expected.

As I did my thing, I felt someone bearing down on me from an unobstructed perspective. It was Lindros, and, yes, he was sneaking a peek.

Lindros : 9th most generous star - Oprah tops

Retired hockey player Eric Lindros is among the world's top 10 most generous celebrities.

Lindros made No. 9 on the list, which is compiled annually by The Giving Back Fund, after contributing $5 million to the London Health Sciences Centre, a London, Ont.-based hospital where he was treated.

He tied in generosity with other sports stars — basketball player Michael Jordan, who gave to a Chicago school, and cyclist Lance Armstrong, who gave to cancer research.

Lindros played in the National Hockey League for 16 years, most notably with the Philadelphia Flyers.

... Speaking of gorillas

Here is another type of gorilla that might be a thing of the past ... men who are afraid of commitment!

Scientists studying voles (mouse-like rodents) discovered that transferring a single gene, the vasopressin receptor, from the monogamous prairie vole into the brain's reward centre of a promiscuous meadow vole, would cause that meadow vole to become monogamous.

CLICK HERE to learn how that applies to huMEN! - and where to get "Vasopressin" for the man you love! [ just kidding! ]

Run Gorilla Run

I am not sure about this commercial's implied messages (racist rant, gorillas are a bad thing and ought to be shipped back, etc.), but I think the event sounds fun (for bank robbers, anyway!), and the cause is a good one. What do you think?

Believe it or not: Some People Live Without TV

Some give it up to avoid exposing their families to the excessive sex, violence, and consumerism they feel are promoted onscreen. Others object to the medium itself, claiming television intrudes too much into their lives, interferes with conversation and takes time away from the family. Finally, some people have a beef with the power and values of the television industry and don't want its influence in their homes.

Emotional memories hurt more

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," simply is not true, according to researchers.

Psychologists found memories of painful emotional experiences linger far longer than those involving physical pain.

They quizzed volunteers about painful events over the previous five years.

Writing in the journal Psychological Science, they said evolutionary brain changes which allow us to work better in groups or societies could be key.

"No, really ... it was THEM!"

She has been doing so well, but today at breakfast ... she dropped her fork, crawled over to the next booth to get it, and claimed she saw the Obamas and the Bidens.

Like all they have to do with their time is have waffles and patty sausages here at the Yankee Kitchen!

Teach your children well

Hint: Don't tell your kids how smart they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life

Praising children’s innate abilities, as Jonathan’s parents did, reinforces this mind-set, which can also prevent young athletes or people in the workforce and even marriages from living up to their potential. On the other hand, our studies show that teaching people to have a “growth mind-set,” which encourages a focus on effort rather than on intelligence or talent, helps make them into high achievers in school and in life.

20 of the World’s Weirdest Endangered Species

The ugly redheaded stepchildren of the animal kingdom don’t get much attention compared to the perennial endangered animal favorites like pandas, polar bears, and owls. These are the cute, majestic, and otherwise emblematic creatures of the endangered species list.

But there are hundreds more animal species on our wondrous planet that are critically threatened and need both publicity and support. From bats the size of bees to poison-slinging mammals, lizards that don’t eat for a decade to seals with giant inflatable faces, here are some of the strangest, most bizarre, unusual and important endangered species living on the “EDGE” (Evolutionarily Distinct & Globally Endangered).