It's an early record here in scienceTASTIC Studio A, and, boy, can you hear it. Stick with us, though, and we'll all get through it together. Mike leads the way with a nifty profile of some pretty ingenious backyard inventors*, Mark keeps the (non)excitement going with a story of worlds colliding (literally), and Joe lumbers through the third leg of the show with a look at evolution happening right before our very eyes. We also give you new subs probing the briny deep^, using real guns to play video games, and people genetically able to run on less sleep than the rest of us. And by "rest of us," clearly I mean the hosts of this show. Now, if you'll excuse us, it's naptime.

What we didn't get to: solving world hunger^ (you'd think that would be important enough to cover in the show proper), graffiti with LEDs, and text messaging aliens.

*Popular Mechanics, September 2009
^Popular Science, August 2009

We do our best to stay on track in this episode of scienceTASTIC, but there's just so much to talk about. Sure, Mike will tell you about reintroducing wolves in the Scottish Highlands, Mark will make you a bit queasy describing the armored cricket, and Joe unvails NASA's plans for future manned missions, but we also cover Three Men and a Baby, European soap operas, the economy, and crazy Korean ice cream commercials. Just your typical show, really. Oh, we also talk about camouflage for trees, new maps of Venus (and its curious white spot), and a physiological difference between men and women that has nothing to do with the bathing suit area.

What we didn't get to: more audio on the armored cricket, tires from trees, false memories, and our old friend Karl Merk.