- Doctor Who returns to BBC America at 9pm EST this Saturday from it’s mid-season break. Nice recap of the first half of season six here.
- Bubonicon 43 begins this weekend in New Mexico.
- TOR/Forge Books and NASA are working together to create a series of hard SF stories to inspire new generation of rocket scientists.
- Ray Bradbury turned 91 on August 22nd.
- Samsung claims that it can’t be infringing on any Apple ipad patents because Stanley Kubrick invested it first in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Astronomers discover dead-star diamond the size of a planet.
- Wolverine 2 is delayed yet again.
- Rumors of a new Star Trek TV series surface again like Nemo’s mysterious ship.