Something very strange of going on on Saturn. Anby strange I mean stranger than the possibility there's someone there who enjoys Deal or No Deal. Something punched through one of the rings, which Cassini sent back images of. Weird.

from Science Daily:
ScienceDaily (July 28, 2009) — It is widely known that the brain perceives information before it reaches a person’s awareness. But until now, there was little way to determine what specific mental tasks were taking place prior to the point of conscious awareness.

This is an interesting article about developments in understanding about how the brain handles, processes and understands information. Obviously this article applies everywhere but Somerset.

This is an interesting video about how using quantum physics will enable you to actually pretty accurately gues the old number of M & Ms in a jar puzzler. Interesting.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists decided to interrupt the recently refurbished observatory's checkout and calibration to take the image of a new, expanding spot on the giant planet on July 23.

More here.

Never read this magazine, Popular mechanics, because I have never met a popular mechanic. But there's their report on CSI (TV0 versus CSI (real life)

Fascinating albeit long drawn out article about the magnificence in the Universe.