With this episode, scienceTASTIC is no longer a teenager, but still can't rent a car.  At least we're still good for a few science stories.  Mike warns us that saying "Betelgeuse" three times might make it explode and kill us all.  Mark learns that his favorite sport is about to be overtaken by robots.  Joe wants to get paid by NASA for staying in bed.  (Not for that, sicko.)  You'll also get a whole zoo of stories on lions and cougars, hummingbirds, and tigers.  Please, though, don't feed the podcasters.

What we didn't get to: robot ferrets, video passports, and zombies.

Episode 019 of scienceTASTIC is the first to come from our brand new studio.  It won't make a bit of difference to you the listener since all of the equipment is the same, but at least Mark can finally connect to the WiFi.  Speaking of Mark, he leads us off with a nifty device for sniffing out bugs (the electronic kind, not the creepy-crawlies).  Mike follows that up with a new "alliance hypothesis" that makes him question why he ever became friends with his co-hosts.  Meanwhile, Joe can't help but wonder why you haven't already heard about a simple contact lens that cures corneal diseases.  We also serve up some scary-ass smart bullets, a better atomic clock (because losing one second every 1.4 million years just isn't good enough), and the greatest gift of all... a monkey's laugh.

What we didn't get to: the PS3 goes Wii, and a cultural explosion.