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World

• CNN medical reporter Sanjay Gupta is the new Surgeon General of the United States. Imagine…trading the limelight for dour warnings on cigarette boxes.
• Danger Blog offers some sober insight into Israeli use of white phosphorous munitions in Gaza.
• The UK’s Atheist Bus Campaign has raised so much money, it’s going global.
• Nigerian motorcyclists are wearing pumpkins on their heads to evade a mandatory helmet law. Hilarious, until you run into a car.

Media

• The NYT deathwatch has started. And, it may not be so bad. In the long term, of course.
• Revealed! The US Air Force’s remarkably unhelpful dealing-with-bloggers flowchart.

Science & Tech

• Check out Obama’s sweet new presidential ride.
• UFO season starts early in New Jersey.
• What it feels like to die in a black hole. Hint: it’s called bifurcating spaghettification.
• In an incredibly gross experiment, researchers determine love actually changes your sense of smell.

Pop Culture

• Here’s a sneak peek of Battlestar 4.5. Glooooomy.
• Jalopnik presentes the world’s funniest street signs.
• Val Kilmer stars in a new movie where global warming unleashes an alien virus. Aaaah! Val Kilmer!
• The inventor of the Hawaiian shirt has died.
• New Romero zombie flick. Let’s hope …Of The Dead is better than the last one.
• Most. Em-bare-ass-ing. Ski trip. Ever.
• Stooges guitarist Ron Asherton was found dead yesterday.
• Sci-Fi Wire remembers the strangest comicbook crossovers. Like this one, that I actually owned: