Looks like all the World Science Festival events that really interested me are sold out. Actually, that's not entirely true, but I'll be in the Poconos this weekend so will have to miss out on, say, Saturday's What It Means to Be Human moderated by Charlie Rose, with a panel that includes Jonathan Harris among philosophers, geneticists and neuroscientists. Get tix, go, and I'll borrow your notes when I get back.

° Solvent - A Panel of Experts mp3

If you can't make it out to these talks either, keep reading for a round-up of science and science-y links that I've been bookmarking (wikis, articles, vids, etc), so you can school yourself without leaving your desk/couch/hammock. With science-y musics, of course.

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Wiki: Voyager Golden Record
This was the topic for Andrew Andrew's Pecha Kucha NY presentation.

° Voyager One - The Future is Obsolete mp3

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Wired: Very Short Stories
"33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction."

° Hilotrons - Science Fiction Music mp3

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TED Talk: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World by Paul Stamets
"Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet."

° Can - Mushroom mp3

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NOVA: The Elegant Universe
The only course I ever had to drop and do-over in college was a quantum physics class for humanities nerds that I was required to take. I still never really got it the second time. To make up for it, I'm trying to read the book by Brian Greene now... but I'll probably get more out of this miniseries he hosted that you can watch online.

° Kelley Polar - We Live In An Expanding Universe (Caribou Remix) mp3

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ZDNet: Apple testing geotagging for iPhone 2; 3G switch confirmed
This is mainly for the rad track and lyrics: She is the latest in technology / Almost mythology / But she has a heart of stone / She has an IQ of 1001 / She has a jumpsuit on / And she's also a telephone.

° Electric Light Orchestra - Yours Truly 2095 mp3

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Revver: Imagining the 10th Dimension
See also: the hypercube.

° MGMT - 4th Dimensional Transition mp3

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NYTimes: Mars lander sends photos from Red Planet's arctic

° Alan Parsons Project - I Robot mp3

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Bonus prize for making it to the end:

° The Black Angels - Science Killer mp3