This Is Your Money on Hormones

What makes Wall Street traders go crazy? Why, raging hormones, of course (and, yes, we're talking male traders here, which most are): http://www.economist.com/node/21530111

New Gene Baby

Harvard genetics professor George Church on reading and writing our own DNA (video): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14919539

It's a Bird! It's a Plane!

Physicist Brian Cox on Cern's finding of a subatomic particle that might have traveled faster than light (video): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15034852

Look! Skywalker!

What? An X-Wing Fighter on the USS Long Island? An AT-ST at the landing at Normandy? A Battle Droid fought alongside Pancho Villa? Apparently so!: http://www.laboiteverte.fr/star-wars-integre-a-des-photos-anciennes/

The New Incredible Journey

Five years after she disappeared from her home in Boulder, Colorado, Willow the calico cat is found ... in Manhattan (and, yes, it really is she)!: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/nyregion/willow-lost-cat-from-colorado-resurfaces-in-manhattan.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=cat%20colorado&st=cse

Hard Rock

Images of Vesta, the second-most-massive object in the asteroid belt: (video): http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1020

Sunrise/Sunrise, Sunset/Sunset

There really IS a planet that gets a double sunrise and sunset, and NASA just found it: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-292&cid=release_2010-292&msource=11292&tr=y&auid=9506424

Water, Water Everywhere

Let your pen be a water molecule traveling through this maze we call life!: http://www.jabebo.com/WaterCycleset.htm

Things to Do ~ Sept. 24

A list of the California museums participating in Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day, Sept. 24 (free admission): http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/museum-search/?state=California
N.B., You'll need a special ticket, which you can download from that page (it's on the right side). One ticket per household, and each is good for two free admissions.

Danger: Hospital Ahead

To Infinity and Beyond!

NASA has put together an amazing, interactive, 3D environment called "Eyes on the Universe" ~ better than Xbox and Nintendo DS!: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/index.html

SOMEone Will Want It

The answer to an overly consumerist society (we knew there had to be one): http://www.utne.com/The-Sweet-Pursuit/The-100-Percent-Off-Store.aspx

7 Billion on Halloween

Here's a scary story for Halloween! United Nations demographers have pinpointed October 31 as the date on which we will be welcoming the 7 billionth person to this planet: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article2412108.ece

We ♡ N-M-Ls!

 Why do we love animals so much? It's all in our heads: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/01/140116969/human-brain-responds-to-animals-cute-or-creepy