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.  

...let's be honest.   You can't.

L-3 Communications, which sold $40 million in scanners to TSA, doubled its lobbyist spending in the last five years and hired several high-profile former government officials to advance its cause in Washington.

Disappointed that our solar system mnemonic "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" became "Mean Very Evil Men Just Shortened Up Nature" at the International Astronomical Union meeting which demoted Pluto as a planet?

You're not alone but Mike Brown, the astronomer who ignited that spark, is unapologetic, and has even written a book on it, "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming", where he discusses the origins of his quest, which resulted in Eris and led to the elimination of Pluto as a planet due to a rather ridiculous, arbitrary of definition of planet specifically designed to exclude Pluto instead of being, you know, science.

Two anchors on WGN were rewarded for their patience in trying to show a bridge implosion live by...missing it.   After 5 minutes of trying to kill time, they segued to the studio to talk about the weather.    And as soon as they did, the bridge went.

Watch them eat their papers in frustration.  No one likes to miss a bridge implosion.

A dedicated vegan has to make a difficult choice.  

She realizes, as most culturally neutral people knew, that nutrition is a shockingly inexact science and that the human body may react to a strict vegan style for one person but moralizing and posturing that therefore everyone else is unethical if they aren't vegan is not an evidence-based claim, it is simply one of good fortune that they don't get sick.

She isn't going all Texas barbecue about it, just eating a small bit of fish or an egg each day to achieve a little more balance than she had before, but says both her spirits and her physical health are better.

In 2006, 2% of the world's astronomers, led by a guy with a television show, decided Pluto should not be a planet.    Recently discovered Eris was bigger, they said, so rather than make Eris a planet they made Pluto a rock.   

They did so by specifically creating a new definition of planet designed to exclude Pluto - "A body that circles the sun without being some other object's satellite, is large enough to be rounded by its own gravity (but not so big that it begins to undergo nuclear fusion, like a star) and has "cleared its neighborhood" of most other orbiting bodies."

Isaac Newton, the man who invented calculus, described the law of universal gravitation and built the first reflecting telescope and is rightfully considered one of the most influential scientists in history, also practiced alchemy for three decades, says Indiana University professor William Newman.

No surprise, many scientists dabbled in alchemy.    Alchemy was an offshoot of chemistry, to some, though centuries before literary geniuses like Chaucer ridiculed alchemists as charlatans.