Hark! U.S. health care reform cometh, and that right soon! Boston Red Sox win World Series. Homus Neanderthalensis may have been the Earth's first natural redhead. Study suggests that sexual orientation is coded in genetic material. Wired Magazine's review of the new Mac operating system. French president evidently working overtime to reinforce common stereotypes held about the French people. Sacre bleu! New Jersey school proves the true importance of accessories in a Halloween costume.......

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making......

Today is the 15th anniversary of the day they placed the best thing to happen to astronomy since man 1st gazed at the stars: The Hubble Space Telescope. Austinist gives a hearty hazzah to man's finest attempt to understand the very fabric of our universe and the cause of its inception. Wired Magazine has written an excellent article online describing many of Hubble's finest accomplisments. With all of our modern problems, such as multi-stage, multi-nation......