The Galileoscope, inspired by the One Laptop Per Child initiative, seeks to bring affordable, quality telescopes to the masses. Seeing Jupiter with a $20 scope? Sounds like a good excuse for a camping trip.

One pig, 185 different products.

Wasp-18b orbits its star, Wasp-18, at such a close proximity that it should have burned away millions of years ago.

People who frequently multi-task are worse at it than people who rarely do.

Kottke has a great roundup of 40th-anniversary Apollo 11 points of interest around the ‘net.

Scientific American reports swearing may relieve pain. Give it a damn try, Bobby. :D

An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in a nation that isn’t seedy as all hell will soon begin phase I human trials. [via]

Did a meteor bring down Air France 447?

It’s no Utopia Planitia, but seeing “orbital shipyard” in a headline pleases my harbls.

Cold fusion back from the dead? [via]

Scientists find new types of life under the Blood Falls of Antarctica.

Looks like brain function is all downhill after 27. Sorry, Gargoyle, looks like you’re screwed. (OK, maybe not)