…but Dream Chaser will take people not just on suborbital hops, but all the way into orbit. And, of course, once you’re in orbit, you’re “halfway to anywhere.”

Or is this column decrying the conspiracy-theory mentality itself part of a great conspiracy to hide the truth? I link…you decide.

It’s called alagebrium, and it looks promising. I find myself far more interested in medical anti-aging advances now, at age 46, than I remember being interested in them when I was, say, 26…

Powdered metal is the automotive fuel of the future.

…the headline “Armoured Grizzlies in Sudan within days: Ottawa” makes you think of Philip Pullman.

There’s an obvious cheap joke here, considering how people tend to think of opera singers as being, um, large individuals…but I think I’ll just point you to the story without further comment.

I didn’t know they existed, but they do: and thanks to space-age know-how, they may be reaching the point where ordinary water heaters will become obsolete, saving energy and expense and ensuring the hot water never runs out.

From The New Scientist: “A new microscope sensitive enough to track the real-time motion of a single protein, right down to the scale of its individual atoms, has revealed how genes are copied from DNA – a process essential to life.” From me: “Cool!”

Well, what do you know! Maybe getting your feet cold doescontribute to getting a cold.

Picture this: you’re in a classroom. Your teacher is at the blackboard. She has long, red nails. She reaches out—and scrapes her nails slowly down the blackboard from top to bottom. Got the shivers? You’re not alone. Many people cringe at the mere thought of fingernails on a blackboard, even without hearing that horrible screeching …

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Artist Elizabeth Hickock builds San Francisco landscapes out of Jello. No, I’m not joking. And they’re beautiful! (Via Dynamist Blog.)

You thought your tinfoil hat was protecting you from the government’s invasive mind-control beams? Bwah-ha-ha. Read this definitive study (from MIT, no less) and weep, oh pawn of the powers that be. (Via Media Blog.)