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On the White House's website there is a "We The People" section, which allows citizens to "petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country." If any submitted petition gets 25,000 E-signatures, then the White House will review the proposal. Our favorite of these petitions this month has to be from Colorado man “John D" who,

It's easy to poke fun at George Lucas. He directed the prequel trilogy after all, and refuses to acknowledge the original cuts of the first three 'Star Wars' movies. But when Lucas does good, that's no joke. And today word broke that Lucas will be giving the majority of the money he got for selling Lucasfilm to educational philanthropy.

If you have the time for some amusment or a Star Wars primer here's your huckleberry.

In the journal, Icarus a French team has discovered a "Super-Earth" that has one cool side and one lava side.  Kind of like something George Lucas would think up.

NASA is about to launch a cool spectrometer that will do a lot of seemingly boring stuff but could also get us closer to magnetic shielding for spacecraft.

The guys over at Think Geek have come up with Star Wars Popsicles you can make at home.

I used to fancy myself quite the Star Wars fan.  It's guys like this that remind me I'm not much of a fan at all.