1:00 PM -- Headline news at the NewScientist Website addresses the question we've so often asked ourselves:

Why pregnant women don't fall overIt appears, as it turns out, that they lean backwards.

[Ed. note: A good push, though, will usually topple 'em pretty easily. Especially if they're asleep.]

As if that weren't enough, the story is also not lacking in penetrating anthropological insight:

Well imagined, Ms Rosenberg!

— Larry, Attack Monkey, Light Reading