• Komodo dragons are venomous. They just may not need it. We plan our field trip to see if Ryan bleeds to death or dies of neurotoxin.  Learn all about reptile venom here, if you have the $$$.  Also, here is sweet picture of a Komodo dragon taken my brother when he was on the island, you can see some of his other pictures here.
• Ryan and Justin try to leave me out of Ocean by Warren Ellis, but fail miserably.
• We review trailer 1 for  Where the Wild Things Are and come away with slightly mixed feelings, given that the original book (comic?) is only 10 sentences long.
• A discussion of the 5th force and dark matter leaves us wondering if gravity is real or not.
• We close the show ever more nervous that a Velociraptor could ambush us from above.
• Bump music this week is Neighborhood #2 (Laika) by The Arcade Fire. This choice was inspired by our brief discussion of dying in space and the Russian test dog Laika, as well as The Arcade Fire song Wake Up used in the Where the Wild Things Are trailer.

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Can werewolves be sexy? Should they even try? Zombies invade computational sciences, we milk Europe for all it’s worth, and a ‘critical’ look at Blacklight Power’s claim to harvest energy by pushing Hydrogen electrons below their ground state.

• We lead off with Blacklight Power’s attempt to give us loads of cheap energy, or to scam us.  Find a critical analysis of Blacklight power’s claim here.  Watch a supposedly independent validation of the process here.  Or, visit their website.
• We delve into the origin of dairy farming in Europe and learn about lactase persistence.  One popular press look at the issue can be found here. Alternatively you can read the scientific article for yourself.
• For Trailer Trash Talk this week it was two werewolf movies.  We watched the Meet Jacob Black trailer for New Moon, the latest installment of the Twilight series.   We compare and contrast with of a remake of the classic The Wolfman (we watched trailer 1).
  You can get your tickets here if you are dying to see Twilight Saga’s New Moon and you’re worried about sold out theaters.
• We close out the show with solid information on what to do in the coming zombie apocalypse.  You can’t get this information just anywhere.  Read up on how not to catch zombie here.  If you like zombies as much as we do then you are gonna want some of this gear.
• Bump music included playing with the loops in Garageband and a real gem by Jonathan Coulton called Re: Your Brains.  Obviously, this last choice was inspired by our survival of the zombie plague.

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