Interesting image by dreamsrey Foreclosures more than doubled in Massachusetts last year... [Globe] ...and house prices are rising. [Globe] Romney's panting for the veep spot. [Salon] China can't recognize human rights--or potty-train its kids. [Globe] We have the laziness gene... do you? [Time] Seuss-like Heart Robot likes hugs, is creepy. [Engadget]......

Image by Vox Efx on Flickr Two important rates have doubled lately: home foreclosures and STDs. We've all been inundated with information about the housing crisis, but we didn't realize there was a herpes crisis as well. Are people having reckless sex to console themselves about their home foreclosures? Probably not; the research for the STD study found rates doubled in 2003, before our metaphorical mortgage walls began to come crashing down. Genital warts......