Japanese video game author wins Spanish prize Japan's Shigeru Miyamoto, considered the father of the modern video game, has been awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities. Ancient 'Iceman' Had Modern Ailments Scientists have sequenced the genome of the famed 5,300-year-old Tyrolean iceman, found frozen in the Alps in 1991 -- and discovered he had genetic vulnerability to heart disease, as well as Lyme disease.
  Reading Your Lover's Mind Can you read your spouse's mind? During an argument? A Baylor University study showed people could easily tell when a spouse was angry, but other important emotions, such as sadness, were hard to detect.
  Qwiki Turns Everyone into a Broadcaster A new website lets people create interactive video and text packages.
  Watch: TechBytes 5.17.12 Google introduces their new "knowledge graph" search function.
  NASA Time-Lapse of Sea Currents Click on the video below and prepare to be mesmerized. It’s called “Perpetual Ocean,” and it was put together by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. It was actually done about a year ago, compiling data from several satellites...
 
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