The Show Notes

Gentiana "occurring in alpine habitats" "Many beverages are made with gentian root." "It is used to produce gentian, a distilled beverage produced in the Alps." Shellshock "family of security bugs in the widely used Unix Bash shell" "first disclosed on 24 September 2014" Pumpkin Spice Latte A Grande weights 380 calories "There have been over 29,000 tweets that have featured the hash tag: #pumpkinspice since August of 2012" Lockheed's compact fusion reactor "October 2014, Lockheed Martin declared that it would "build and test a compact fusion reactor in less than a year, and build a prototype in five years." Gallium arsenide (GaAs) "Some electronic properties of gallium arsenide are superior to those of silicon" But, "silicon is abundant and cheap to process" "The economy of scale available to the silicon industry has also reduced the adoption of GaAs."

Hope Gangloff , artist living in New York City Rogue Nation Brutal IPA , at BJ's

Chaperon , which has 16 meanings in French Port Brewing Wipeout IPA  (from Steins), getting good grades from Thomas and Alex Epiphany Cellars , in Los Olivos , close to Santa Barbara

Akamai’s State of the Internet - Q1 2014 Report | Volume 7 Number 1 (PDF) In particular: Switzerland is #4 in "Average Connection Speed by Country/Region" Une pile qui fonctionne à l'eau! ( Le Matin article  from November 2013 ) Sounds mostly like BS, more questions than answers in that poor article. PhotonLight  powerful LEDs

Sony Xperia Z3 Compact The only small Android premium phone, with a good camera, etc The Verge review (video) Claimed 2-day battery life waterproof