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Published reports this weekend say Yahoo has sent a letter to Microsoft rejecting a bid by the giant software maker to buy the search-engine company. But the letter could just be a negotiating ploy.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak addressed his country and the world Thursday night in a speech in which he was widely expected to cede power. But instead, he may only have strengthened a protest movement now in its third week.

Silicon Valley has become a powerful economic engine, driven by tech-savvy entrepreneurs. But in simpler times, the area was known as the Valley of the Hearts Delight. And it took years to assemble the mix of talent, money and gumption to create America's startup hub.

Taking a cue from "What the World Eats," a book written by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, students at High Tech High International have been investigating what San Diego eats.

Warren St. John, author of "Outcasts United," joins us to talk about his experience in a small town in Georgia with a soccer team made up of refugees from around the world. It's not just a story about soccer.

Information doesn't fade the way it used to. Records once forgotten in long-lost files are now searchable online — perhaps forever. Some computer researchers are looking for ways to give data a life span. But others think we should adapt to a new reality of data that will never die.

Rob and Lizette Greco are doing their best to raise their children artfully, outside the educational establishment, and with a small environmental footprint.

Culture Lust contributor Randy Dotinga explores the San Diego of 1894 through an old guidebook. He discovers there were more newspapers and a "perfect" sewer system.

Between Sarah Palin's half-million Twitter followers and President Obama holding a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters on Wednesday, there's no denying that new media will have a huge impact on the 2012 presidential election — and not necessarily in the ways you would expect.

Everything, especially the news, is moving faster and faster. At this increasingly accelerated pace, is it inevitable that noteworthy events will rush lickety-split into each other, overwhelming us? Or will we just tune it all out?