Full strength, full length.  Episode 016 of scienceTASTIC is back and better (or at least "as good as") ever.  Mark introduces us to a mysterious space blob, Mike tells us to take two chuckles* and call him in the morning, and Joe reports on two Earth-like planets - one too hot and one juuuust right.  We also bring you a Roomba for your lawn, a science-y kind of fung shui*, and important research that you can do from home.  While eating a bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats.  Naked.  (If that's your thing.)

What we didn't get to: the science of God, the non-science of God**, and one happy spider.

*Scientific American Mind, May 2009
**Scientific American, May 2009

We have a great show for you this week.  Or should I say "had?"  Sadly, the scienceTASTIC hard disc did a massive belly flop and ate almost all of this episode.  Despite the best efforts of Mike and Mark, all Joe could do was cobble together this highly-abridged rundown of the stories.  Let's make this quick: the White House goes green (May 2009 Popular Science), the design for a super-slick new driver's licenseslashpassportslashSocial Security card, the rare - and, unfortunately, delicious - megamouth shark, the space tourism race (again, PopSci), tiny suns right here on Earth, and science's biggest computer. 

What we didn't get to: about 38 minutes of show.