NASA and Google plan to work together. I for one welcome our new GOOSA overlords. At least for now they’re only working together with pictures and real-time weather overlaps for maps.

Modafanil and other sleep-modification drugs are on the Christmas lists of American military planners this year. The ability to deny sleep without suffering the side effects of sleep-deprivation would be a significant force multiplier. [boingbiong]

Expect to see a lot of smugly satisfied English literature professors and students on a campus near you after the holiday season, once they hear the news that there is scientific evidence to support the notion that reading Shakespeare is a stimulating intellectual exercise for your brain.

Maybe I can’t tape bacon to cats or write successful science fiction novels, but at least there’s one way I’ve managed to copy John Scalzi – by interviewing Karl Schroeder. So if you’d like to read Schroeder discussing his writing, foresight consultancy and the demise of futurist gurus, the future of the publishing industry, and why he thinks the technological singularity is bunk, please step this way.

It’s a little hard to get much substantial from the press release, but it appears that the University of Cambridge and Alps Electronics are developing tiny LCD projectors that use holography to project sharp, bright pictures. [digg]