I can't make sense of the point behind this video but that's why I have a science site and not a chat show like "Gylne Tider".

They made a promotional video of people lip syncing a remake (1987) of Paul McCartney's "Let It Be" (I know, I know, it was technically The Beatles, but we all know their agreeing to list themselves as Lennon-McCartney gave John Lennon a lot more credit for Beatles work on those last few albums than he deserved - he was phoning it in) but they aren't singers - and the subtitles are fun to read.

Tonya Harding, the not Don Johnson guy from Miami Vice, Glenn Close Botox-ed into oblivion, Katarin Witt on air guitar and many others - this is a keeper.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski announced Wednesday that he has circulated draft rules that will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet" - but they ironically couldn't be disclosed to the public ahead of the December 21st vote.

Yes, rules on openness no one in the public will get to see.  Welcome to government oversight of Internet freedom.

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, which wasn't officially on a secret mission though it raised various alarms when it disappeared for two weeks, has returned.  

Tracking X-37B was a delight for amateur astronomers since, let's be honest, you can't really keep a secret in the sky from them.   While NASA employees were drinking coffee, an amateur found a gaping hole in Jupiter, so not a lot gets by unpaid sky watchers.

The Post Carbon Institute has a video on 300 years of fossil fuel usage.  It isn't entirely accurate (we didn't 'run out' of wood, it got surpassed) but it's interesting.

As they write "While there's a damned good chance we'll fall off a cliff, there's still time to control our transition to a post-carbon future" - the private sector will do it.   There is a reason we are not an alcohol or whale oil economy, after all.

Scientists at the Vatican support so-called genetically modified crops but the head of the Catholic Church's science advisors has now said that the statement does not represent an official Church endorsement - only 18% of the scientists present agreed with the endorsement though, to be fair, that is many more than the 2% of astronomers who determined Pluto is not a planet.

Given the recent endorsement of condom use, where the Church is now for it unless it is against it, and subsequent clarifications, means Catholics have a crisis of communication these days.

One day a year you can talk about dark meat and huge breasts without getting yelled at by your significant other.

Here are 15 other things you can only say on Thanksgiving and not get funny looks.

I'll be honest, I actually have been offered millions for Science 2.0.  Why not take it?  Well, I had to have that discussion with my wife, as you can imagine, but it felt wrong to have called up a lot of well-known scientists and told them we were going to change how science got to the public and implemented in policies and then suddenly announce, sorry, I got a check so I am out of here.

As a young guy, one of the most fascinating aspects of World War II to me was the breaking of the Enigma Code.  

Codebreaker Alan Turing created the machine at Bletchley Park in 1939 and it truly swung the tide, allowing an English military inferior in every way to best the Nazi war machine time and again.   Recently, his papers, including his pioneering work on artificial intelligence and the foundations of the digital computer, were up for auction but failed to meet the minimum price at Christie's today - 300,000 British pounds.

John Yan, editor at GamingNexus.com, has a son with autism and parents of kids with autism want to find things that can help little ones engage with the world around them.   

Where a PS3 and a regular Xbox were not much use for a little guy who can't use the controllers very well, Yan says he took to the Kinect right away.