The internet has lots of really disturbing and icky things on it, but the first few such items here are for SCIENCE!, so that makes it acceptable to polite company. At least, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it:
• A London museum is livestreaming a chunk of sewage from what’s called a “fatberg” that you can watch fester in real time! London’s sewers have lots of restaurant oil, diapers, “disposable” wipes, and all manner of things dumped into them that congeal into enormous multi-ton masses of yeccch that practically have to be mined out of the pipes. I’m amazed there’s not a horror film out there where one of these masses comes to life.
• From sewage we go to 3,300 year old “mummy cheese.” No, it’s not made from mummies (though I wouldn’t put it past someone to try that), it was found buried in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian mayor. I’m impressed the author of the article didn’t make a “Mayor McCheese” joke, so I applaud their restraint.
• Turning to less-gross things, unless you’re put off by strange lights in the sky, we have an aurora-like light phenomenon that scientists are trying to explain that shoots purple streaks across the sky. It’s called STEVE which stands for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement. To paraphrase Agent Ward from a certain Marvel TV series, someone most have really wanted to name this thing STEVE.
• How about something from the Cold War that hasn’t often been seen by those outside of Uzbekistan? The Tashkent Metro recently had its photo ban lifted, so you can enjoy the Soviet-era art, sculpture, and architecture of Central Asia’s oldest subway (and nuclear shelter). Maybe we can get a Metro 2033 game level or two set there?
• And since that’s about transportation, there’s a new kind of getting around in No Man’s Sky: Next. They’re referred to as “portals,” but they’re really Stargates. I mean, they have a glyph-based dial-home-device and ka-whoosh effects when you activate them, so be on the lookout for Colonel O’Neill and his team while you’re playing.
• I don’t know if I’ll have time to play the actual game, but the concept art for the Cyberpunk 2077 game looks cool.
• That’s computer games, so how about a real-world game like the Pokemon CCG? Even if you don’t play, it’s impressive that an unopened box of cards from 1999 went for $56,000 at auction recently. So buy your cases of cards now and bury them in the backyard so that in 20 years, you can be a thousandaire!
• Here’s some closing science that isn’t gross, it’s just huge (size-wise): Stratolaunch has built the largest airplanes in the world that they’ll use to launch rockets into space. It’s like the Cloud City pod car on steroids.
• We end with a platformer game called One-Trick Mage. Your job is to free your hapless adventurer friends who have gotten themselves locked in chests. You can have the effects of one potion at a time, so drink them in the right order to be able to rescue everyone on each level.
• Unless you like waiting until Thanksgiving for NPR’s Science Friday broadcast of the event, 
• From the “take this job and shove it” files comes 
