Happy weekend everyone and sweet dreams to everyone who's finishing Extra Life 2015. This year's gaming marathon has raised nearly $6.4 million USD and counting! So many kudos to everyone who participated this year, now go get some much-deserved rest. And rest is definitely needed, as this upcoming week is chock-full of much-anticipated releases. For those of you still conscious, let's get down to the week in geekdom.
Comics
Did Snoopy ruin the Peanuts?
Games
Need a little post-apocalyptic pick-me-up to get you through to the release of Fallout 4? You got it.
Movies/TV
It's official: Star Trek is coming back to the small screen in January of 2017. Caveat: everything subsequent to the pilot episode may be tough to come by.
We're approaching the t-minus one month mark in the countdown to Episode VII. If a month is still too much to bear, Den of Geek has put together this massive compilation of all the posters, trailers, and assorted images that have been released to the public.
Every James Bond gadget ever.
Peter Capaldi is NOT happy about the way that the current incarnation of Doctor Who has played out on the BBC.
In happier BBC news, the network has greenlit an 8-part series based on Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials.
Oh hi there World of Warcraft trailer
Science/Technology
A team of researchers comprised of participants from UC San Francisco, the University of Michigan, and Washington University at St. Louis have identified a compound that, when applied as an eye drop, may clear up cataracts in humans. Their findings can be found in the latest edition of Science.
That same edition of Science also contains this research from the University of Toronto that may upend everything we thought we knew about how blood is made and maintained in the human body.
There are myriad examples in film and, increasingly, in real life wherein humans show more than a bit of disdain for AI programmed to be 'friendly' or otherwise helpful. As this sort of technology becomes more integrated into our lives, how will our behavior impact the way we relate to other humans?
NASA's JPL and the University of Texas at Austin have been working together to use satellites in order to observe patterns in the Earth's ocean currents. What they've found so far does not bode well in terms of the potential impacts of climate change.
This past Wednesday marked the exact centennial of Albert Einstein's historic, gravity-redefining lectures at the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Here's the story of how none of this would likely have come to pass were it not for the school of thought/obsession with a fictional planet.
How is it that supermassive black holes are capable of of flaring? Thanks to NASA's Explorer mission Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, we may be closer than ever to answering that question.
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Here is the brief, spirally history of the Strypi-type rocket.
We've been following the development of a potential EM drive as best we can and, allegedly, there have been a few new details released into the interwebs concerning this physics-defying device.
Happy 15th birthday to the International Space Station!
If you think the Hubble is the be-all and end-all of telescopic prowess in the universe, check out what gravity itself is capable of.
General Awesomeness/Feats of Nerdery
These two 17-year-olds, communicating only through Facebook and Gchat, may have just paved the way for interstellar travel.
As always, best wishes for an excellent week ahead!
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