Molly reports on defense bots and more. Story links: Hydro Electric Power Plant Explosion, The Frozen Explosion Power Plant, Ice House Detroit, Coudal, full moon, Ice House Detroit Blog, Boston Dynamics Big Dog, DARPA asks Boston Dynamics for Bigger Big Dog, No joke: South Carolina now requires ’subversives’ to register, Yarisal Kublitz, Free VenezuelaAssets: Queen Elizabeth (the 2nd), Ice House Detroit Update, New Big Dog Robot VideoFirst Synthetic Organism, Synthetic Organism, New Rules, Artificial Life May Be Closer Than We Think, South Carolina Map, Capitol Building of South Carolina, Anger Release Machine, Hugo Chavez, Mexico, Mexican Internet Cafe, Sarah Palin, Facebook Tea Party, Facebook Tea Party 2

Molly goes to her first Super Bowl party. This week’s Casual Friday was written, directed, and edited by Ryan Hunter. Starring: MemeMolly, Jenn Lyon, Taige Jensen, Neal Bledsoe, Brett Haley, and Andrea Vascellari.

Rocketboom Tech’s Ellie Rountree reviews 6 new applications for you to try on your Mac and/or PC! Applications: Things, Team Viewer, Self Control, Last Pass, Songbird, Party Booth.

Molly celebrates Create a Vacuum Day by conducting the “egg in a bottle” experiment. Assets: Safety First, Crash Test Dummies, Fireman.

Rocketboom’s Ella Morton interviews Dom Villella and discovers the paranormal side of New York City. Assets: asleep in bed, ghosts, clocks. Music by Podington Bear.

Molly reports on Apple’s iPad. Assets: ipad, mac desktop, photoshop interface, fcp interface, vhs camcorder, rotary phone, hard drive, ipad present, leaning forward at desk, looking at iphone, reclining, reclining 2, reclining 3, layin on grass, handing it over, Adobe Flash, Missing Flash, Missing Flash 2, Missing Flash 3, Flash Icon, HTML code, HTML code 2, Jobs and Missing Flash, Flash Blog Images without Flash, YouTube HTML 5, New Safari Apple Page, Jobs with iPad, Home star runner, apple logo, dollar sign, smashing head, HTML5 Code, HTML5 Graphic, YouTube Rocketboom, Steve Thinking. Music by Podington Bear.

Molly reports on an island in a lake on an island and more. Story links: Philippine island qualifies its way to a “World’s Largest” title, What to get the man who has everything? An underwater plane of course, Try air to stay dry, NASA, Valentine’s Delieverd from Space, A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter, Deceive and Slaughter on Ebay, youme, Illegal Advertising Replaced With Public Art, US Internet Access for All. Assets: Taal Lake, Taal Lake 2, Map of the Pacific, Whale fighting a squid, wind umbrella, Necker Nymph, Darth Vader with a Parosol, air umbrella 6, air umbrella 2, air umbrella 3, air umbrella 4, air umbrella 5, Endeavour Blasting off in space, NASA main flags, Main Node 3, JAXA Satellite, Space Valentine’s, Cale Blarsen, Cale Blarsen 2, Cale Blarsen 3, Cale Blarsen 4, NYSAT, Public Ad Campaign, Jawbone Bluetooth Headset, VHS-C Camcorder, Man on the Street, Charlie Bradley playing video games, new version amazing robot asimo, Terminator 2 Style Vision - Creating in After Effects, Free Lemonade, American Flag, World Map

Rocketboom’s Internet Research Scientist, Jamie W., explains Advice Dog. Assets: post of year, 76M GET, acid trip, adult swim, original advice dog, drink motor oil, Browse 4chan, Regret Life, Buy Lingerie, For Your Mom, Kill Hookers, No One Will Mind, That You’re Naked In Public, Pirate Movies, Steal Music, Advice Dog Burning, When in Doubt, Whip it Out, Alexa 4Chan Ranking, baby fist pump, Adult Swim Bumps With A Courage Wolf, Hack Adult Swim, Mushroom kingdom board, Katamari Damacy, Lizard Dude’s Profile, TEM’s Profile, Adult Swim Bump complaints, original advice dog post, Philosoraptor, Quantcast 4Chan Ranking, she’s 18, Socially Awkward Penguin, You’re The Man Now Happy Dog

Molly recounts the life of Edgar Allan Poe. Assets: Edgar Allen Poe’s Birth Home, Poe, Old Photo of Poe, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Elizabeth “Eliza” Arnold Poe, Portrait of John Allen, Cover: First Edition of Tamerlane, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Edgar Allan Poe’s Pit and the pendulum, Poe, fantastic front, New-York Mirror Edition of The Raven, Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe Grave, poe mystery 1990, Combs Poe 1, Richmond, VA - James River, Richmond, IN - Whitewater River, Richmond, VA 1919, poe’s tamerlane, Edgar Allan Poe - Army, addison-031, Poe Family Tree, Stoke-Newington, map england 1660-1892, Wi, South Bohn-Serz, Al Aaraaf Tamerlane and Minor Poems, Poems, v-learned1, Annabel Lee, Fall of the House of Usher, Poe’s Grave, Westminster Burial Ground, old america, old Baltimore, Broadway Journal, Spiral, New York Map 1842

Rocketboom’s Ella Morton visits Yelo Spa in New York City to learn about the benefits of power napping.

Molly reports on exploding animals. Assets: ant battle, paintball exploding, cat 1, cat 2, dog 1, dog 2, suspended animation, squirrel, humans in suspended animation, beached whale, whale on crane, whale on truck, clean up after whale, darwin w/ pokeball, raining fish, toad, dead toad, grass, pig in jar, preserved animal kingdom, suspended animatipon star trek, pokemon cards, pokemon cards 2, Museum Display 2. Music by Saregama, Podington Bear, and Andrew Baron.

Rocketboom Tech’s Ellie Rountree interviews Boxee founders Avner Ronen and Idan Cohen. Boxee is a featured app in the Intel Atom Developer Program for MIDs. Music by Podington Bear.

This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!

Molly discusses the Conan Leno battle over late night. Assets: new york night shots, leno on carson, letterman first nbc, first jay leno tonight show, tea party footage, tea party 2, Conan supporters protest, Trendistic - graph of Conan/Leno, twitter - team coco hashtag, I’m with Coco, frankenstein mob, conan, jay, FB team coco fan page, letterman and leno, johnny carson

Molly reports on NASA, China, and the ISS. Check out our Save the Space Station wiki page. Story links: Apollo, Russia Offers a Hand With Toilet Clog in Space , NASA Slashes Price for Used Space Shuttles, China Space Lab, NASA Multi-Program Integratd Milestones, NASA. Assets: NASA Florida, Stars in the Sky, toilet, china station model, Launch, china station model 2, china space center, china flag, truck, space station, space helmet, Earth, ISS, starfield, colt, astronaut, shuttle drawing

Rocketboom’s Ella Morton visits PBS Kids’ The Electric Company as they get ready to kick off their 2nd season on January 25th. Assets: The Electric Company Ch Words, starring bill cosby, Rita Moreno singing a song “Hey You Guys!”, Hey you guys original sketch, Bill Cosby Rita Moreno, Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman, Psychadelic opening credits, Jessica Rap, Wyclef, LY Song, Electric Company, Open2, DJ Mel Mounds (Morgan Freeman), Hello Song Music: “Blur and Coalesce” by Podington Bear.

Rocketboom’s Humanwire correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports on refugees in Berbera, Somalia.

In honor of A. A. Milne’s birthday Molly reports on the story behind the stories of Winnie the Pooh. Assets: Harry Colebourne and Winnie, Winnie Colebourn, Inspiration, Original Winnie the Pooh Toys, swan, a.a. milnes’ home, ashdown farm, milne and son and pooh, Christopher Robin and pooh, original pooh 1, pooh goes visiting, I saw a heffalump today piglet, he pushed his head right in, Christopher Robing walking upstairs with pooh, when we were very young, now we are six, house at pooh corner, Christopher Robin Milne 2, Christopher Robin praying, Christopher Robin dragging bear, A. A. Milne, The Sunny Side, toad of toad hall, pooh sleep, Christopher Robin Milne older, Shirley Slesinger, disney pooh, movie-jektor pooh, pooh disney, pooh 2011, tao of pooh, te of piglet, tao of piglet 2, david benedictus, return to the hundred acre wood, lottie the otter, return to the hundred acres wood 1, return to the hundred acres wood 2 , return to the hundred acres wood 3

Molly visits the Lomography store in NYC and snaps a few shots around the city. Music by Podington Bear.

Rocketboom’s Ella Morton learns about ConEdison’s sponsored construction of the Harlem River Tunnel that will bring more electricity into Manhattan.

Molly reports on the recent earthquake in Haiti and what you can do to do help. Story links: Haiti, Haitian Creole, Port-au-Prince, About Haiti, Maps of earthquake, Geo search for tweets, Videos on YouTube of Haiti Earthquake, Twitpic Images of Haiti, Archipelago, Haitian Map. How you can help: Unicef Donate, American Red Cross