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NASA has posted a Thanksgiving greeting from astronauts Peggy Whitson and Dan Tani, currently on the International Space Station, in which they talk about the foods they might be eating, especially on Thanksgiving. Take notes for your next trip. :)

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Earlier this year, NPR’s Morning Edition had a story with a behind-the-scenes look at NASA’s space food lab, where scientists fashion non-goo meals for astronauts:

“Beyond Tang: Food in Space” — NASA’s Johnson Space Center invited The Kitchen Sisters to visit its “hidden kitchen.” On the eve of NASA’s scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis, The Kitchen Sisters present a brief history of space food.

I came across this story thanks to checking out the NPR Hidden Kitchens podcast, unfortunately not updated since June. Hopefully they’ll have more installments to come in the near future, since I love the idea:

An ongoing series exploring the world of hidden kitchens: street-corner cooking, legendary meals and eating traditions…how communities come together through food.

A dog-tricks trainer was on a recent Ninja Warrior podcast. Here’s his awesome poodle looking on:

Now I’m not sure how much geeky-cooler this could get short of Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton making cameos ;D but there’s an awesome new MythBusters webcast up: Part I of MythBusters meets Ask A Ninja!

Also available via the Discovery.com video podcast.

I had a theory that the Ask A Ninja was actually MythBuster Tory Belleci in disguise, which would be a really killer conspiracy theory to propagate. Unfortunately, under further review of the video evidence, the eyebrows and eyes just didn’t match up. Not that that would get in the way of a real conspiracy theorist, but this is MythBusters after all. ;)