AT AMAZON, New Releases on DVD & Blu-Ray.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: What Will College Look Like In 2020?

ADVICE TO UNDERGRADUATES: How To Interact With Your Instructor.

PHOTOS: Dad Builds Homemade Spaceship For Son in Backyard.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Since starting on antidepressants, my wife has been cheerful and optimistic. I hate it.

AT AMAZON, big markdowns in Headphones & Earbuds.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT THIS MORNING: INSTAVISION: Profits in Space! Entrepreneurs Are Scanning the Cosmos for Big Money. I talk with Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources about asteroid mining and more.

HYSTERICAL STRENGTH: Teen daughters find strength to lift 3,000-pound tractor off father. “A man who was pinned by his overturned tractor and losing breath with each scream says he was saved by his two teenage daughters, who found the strength to lift the ton-and-a-half machine.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How Many Times Should You Chew A Bite Of Food. “One thing to be said in favor of thorough chewing is that it slows an eater down. This is helpful if that particular eater is trying to shed some weight. By the time his brain registers that his stomach is full, the plodding 32-chews-per-bite eater will have packed in far less food than the five-chews-per-bite wolfer.”

WANT TO LIVE A LONG TIME? Pay Attention.

REPORT: Here’s The Democrats’ Plan To Get Gun Control Through The Senate. If you don’t want this to happen, you need to let your Senators know — especially if they’re Mary Landrieu, Mark Pryor, Jon Tester, or other vulnerable Dems.

A TIP LINE FOR JOURNALISTS: Did Your Editor Spike Kermit Gosnell Coverage? Report It Here Anonymously.

PUT IT IN PEOPLE, AND TURN IT ON WHENEVER THEY SEE A PICTURE OF BIG BROTHER: Tiny wireless injectable LED device shines light on mouse brain, generating reward. “Using a miniature electronic device implanted in the brain, scientists have tapped into the internal reward system of mice, prodding neurons to release dopamine, a chemical associated with pleasure.”

I predicted this in the New York Times over a decade ago: “One nanotechnology expert, Glenn H. Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, said that someday it might even be used to make tiny robots that would lodge in people’s brains and make them truly love Big Brother.”

AN EVENT NOTABLE MOSTLY FOR ITS RARITY: District attorney should be disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct, state bar court recommends.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Harvard Scientist Begins Mind Control Experiment.

IF HE’S LUCKY, HE CAN KEEP THE STORY OUT OF THE NEWS UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION: McAuliffe car company sues Watchdog in libel claim. It’s not important that he win, just that he provide “mainstream” journalists an excuse for soft-pedaling it. Or am I being too cynical here?

THE DEMOCRATS’ STRATEGY ON GUN CONTROL SEEMS TO BE A MIXTURE OF EMOTIONAL BULLYING AND MCCARTHYISM: Connecticut senator to Rupert Murdoch: You should refuse to air the NASCAR race that the NRA’s sponsoring.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Addressing the declining productivity of higher education using cost-effectiveness analysis. “Since the early 1990s, real expenditures on higher education have grown by more than 25 percent, now amounting to 2.9 percent of US gross domestic product (GDP)—greater than the percentage of GDP spent on higher education in almost any of the other developed countries. But while the proportion of high-school graduates going on to college has risen dramatically, the percentage of entering college students finishing a bachelor’s degree has at best increased only slightly or, at worst, has declined.”

READER BOOK PLUG: Reader William Young asks that I plug his Cities of the Dead: Stories from the Zombie Apocalypse. Done!

WHY CONGRESS SHOULD ADOPT MY LEGAL-PROTECTION-FOR-SAVINGS-AND-401Ks PROPOSAL. I missed this endorsement from Nick Gillespie:

I think Reynolds is on to something, though I’d be happy to see legislators of either party start talking up the sort of bill he proposes. For years now, there have been rumors that 401(k) and other supposedly sacrosanct retirement accounts will became game for governments low on funds. However well-based or not those fears are, anything the feds can do to draw clear lines and hem in their future behavior would be a good thing, for all the reasons Reynolds suggests. Massive levels of political and legislative uncertainty have reigned supreme in the 21st century and fear of the future is a great way to strangle it before it begins.

Enterprising members of Congress, take note.