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• Via The Frisky, The Squirrel Whisperer Will Put Tiny Hats On All Your Squirrels. She’s a real-life Squirrel Girl!
• GeekMom and GeekDad both wish Neil Gaiman a happy birthday. And so do we, albeit not quite so eloquently. Happy birthday, Neil!

I remember The Magic School Bus (the TV show, anyway) being disturbing—but not this disturbing. Not Mrs. Frizzle needing to be rescued from hell levels of disturbing. (The FW)

• Step back, Felix Baumgartner. Your space jump might’ve been awesome and record-breaking, but a group of Harvard students just launched a hamburger into space. So nyah. The burger, packaged with a video camera and a phone for GPS, reached an altitude of 30,000m before falling back down to earth. Best part: “The food pod was recovered in a tree 130 miles north of Boston in Byfield. The students first tried to use a crossbow to get the package down but eventually hired a man to climb and retrieve the camera after several days and a storm.” (Boston.com)

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