What I Learned This Week: Megalodon was a hoax...

    this weeks episode of What I Learned This Week is going to be pretty shark heavy, cause duh it was shark week!  I apologize in advance and will try to keep it to a minimum.

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 I was pretty excited for Discovery Channels Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives (ps I think it is super funny that Discovery Channel changed the name of the show on their site to Megalodon: The Monster Shark and got rid of the Lives...  Shady.)  I didnt think for a moment that these monsters were really still around.  I mean they could be but I didnt believe boats could have recently be sunk by them and we not hear about it... Wil Wheaton had some great things to say about the mockumentary.  I agree with lots of it.  If you cant tell that the footage on the boat is professionally done and not with a crappy camera you are silly!  Plus how could that camera survive in the salt water to be viewed later?  The large amount of photo-shopping was also humorous.  I am not sure if I would go so far to say the public needs an apology but it should have been made very clear that it was fiction.  There was a very fast and short disclaimer at the end but it didnt say it was fake.  I enjoyed the show.  It was a fun idea, but I know there are people out there that would believe it.  Are we now going to hear Voodoo Sharks is fake too?

Another article on the hoax and some real fact on the AWESOME Megalodon.

I really hope scientific mockumentaries are going to become a trend like the mermaids.  That would really bum me out.  There are so many ahMazing and true stories to be told...

Look at all the free press Shark Week is now getting!  There is no such thing as bad publicity...

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Cooking up the world's first in-vitro beef burger!  The ex-vegan in me finds this fascinating!  I feel vegans could eat this meat since you animal was harmed, but I feel like the excuse would be that to get the cells for growing the meat a cow was harmed.  But one cow vs millions would be amazing!  I totally want to try it!  It does seem like it would be squishy but the tasters liked it.  Crazytown!  

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I also learned why I am still single.  7 Tips for Keeping Your Man (from the 1950s) and I only was good at one of them...  Can you guess which one?

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I love this Spock eared iPhone case!  I would totally hit on a guy if he had one.  Talk nerdy to me...

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I discovered StarTalk Radio Show with Neil deGrasses Tyson.  I may be super behind here but the only interweb type radio I listen to is Pandora...  I learned that the universe is made up of 80% dark energy 16% dark matter 4% everything else.  Most of the gravity in the universe has no known origin which makes it dark matter and it used to be called "missing matter" but we should really call it "too much gravity".  I didnt know that...  I might become a bigger space nerd now!

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Animals such as sharks, alligators and turtles can potentially live forever!  I have heard such things about lobsters but how cool would it be to meet a 1,000 year old shark!  I heard this on a Sharks After dark episode (before I got annoyed by the host and quit watching.  Kinda sad I miss Tara Reid make an ass of herself...  "Whales are mammals and sharks are just animals."  Or maybe they are fish?!?).  Sharks dont die of old age!  Sharks will keep growing as long as they can find food to eat and have the energy to hunt, but once they get really big they end up starving because they cant hunt enough to have enough energy to keep hunting...  Vicious cycle.  

This is what I learned this week!  What did you learn?

Loads of laundry done: one started...

Time wasted on podcasts:  only 40 mins...

Emotions on missing a camping trip this weekend:  Lots of sadness!  I had been looking forward to it all year...

Emotions on what I will really be doing this weekend:  Excited!  Bridal showers are fun!