Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree visits the first Consumer Genetics Show in Boston, MA. Extra: Ellie interviews molecular geneticist George Church.

This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!

Why Men Are Superior to Fish (Nov, 1931), World guitar speed record: starts at 170 and reaches 320bpm!, Tiago Della Vega, Chrysler’s 800-unit hybrid program, How The Not-So Big Three Rolled Into Washington, D.C., First draft of Automaker Bailout Bill is out, G.M.’s Latest Great Green Hope Is a Tall Order , Half of U.S. Consumers Delaying New Car Purchases, Top 10 Most Useless Body Parts, Why do males have nipples?, Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect: December 6, 2008

Joanne visits Global Nomads Group, a non-profit organization using video conferencing technology by Polycom to connect schools with scientists working on the Offshore New Harbor Project in East Antarctica.

Explaining Evolution. An animation in collaboration with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage

Heavy Metal-Eating “Superworms” Unearthed in U.K., death metal images 1, 2, Death Metal music streaming, One-of-a-kind Microorganism Lives All Alone, At 2.8 km down, a 1-of-a-kind microorganism lives all alone, Angry about economy? Smash some plates and move on, Man writes with tears, The Antarctic Sun: Bloodless Icefishes, Feds to use microchips to foil cactus thieves, Microchips Finger Antler, Cactus Thieves, Sticky Nanotape, geko

Anti-gravity, NASA footage of zero gravity plane, Go-Fast Jetpack, Mythbusters on the Anti-Gravity Lifter Myth, Expl of dynamical BB effect from stand point of ZPF field by T. Musha, Biefeld Brown Effect, UFOs-NASA, Gary McKinnon, Free Gary McKinnon dot org dot uk, Brian Cox, D:Ream, What on Earth is wrong with gravity?, General Relativity (intro), Newton’s law of universal gravitation, Does matter with a negative mass exist somewhere in the cosmos? If it does, its bizarre properties would provide the perfect space-drive , Is anti-gravity possible?, Dr. Sten Odenwald

Ivy Bean is the World’s Oldest Facebooker at 102, Edna Parker is the Oldest Person Alive at 115, The World’s Tallest Woman was Edna Parker’s neighbor, Jeanne Calment lived 122 years and 164 days, Timothy a Greek Tortoise lived to 160, Greenland sharks can live up to 200 years, Cinachyra antarctica sponge can live to 1,550 years, the Sacred Jaya Siri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is the oldest living human-planted tree, descended from the Bodhi Tree where Buddha became enlightened, Sacred Fig, Prometheus, a 5,000 year old Great Basin Bristlecone Pine was chopped down by a grad student in 1964, the Methuselah tree of California is still alive at 4839 years, the Old Tjikko tree in Sweden is 9,550 years old (via Science Daily), Pando, a Quaking Aspen in Utah may be 80,000 years old, Posidonia oceanica seagrass may be up to 100,000 years of age, the Hydrozoa species Turritopsis nutricula can cycle from mature adult back to a polyp

Story Links: Trojan Horse, NASA awards new lunch services contract to SpaceX, Soyuz TMA-11 goes ballistic , Obamacrombie and Fitch Gate, The REEM-B Robot, Dean Kamen’s Slightshot Water Purifier, Pixel Spout, Recycled Cell Phone Art (via Bill Pettit), Cloned Animal Meat Coming Soon, Alice Illustrations other than Tenniel, ROFLCon

story links: Signs of Spring, Inflatable Animals, 6000 sq mile Wilkins Ice Shelf is breaking off, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Melting Icecaps may trigger more volcanic eruptions, WWF Paper Dispenser, Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet, Princeton’s Harry G. Frankfurt On Bullshit, Psychology of Marketing, The Potato Song, Flickr Photo Credits (Eggybird, Rob Lee, JasonTromm)

Story Links: Alien found on the beach, Water on Mars, Looking for dark matter on the South Pole, Rick Roll direct link

Story Links: Happy 199th birthday to Charles Darwin, Evolution, animation in collaboration with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage