Roasted testicle jokes aside, the founder, Amory Lovins — stop it — is the applied physicist behind the Colorado think tank and has some interesting things to say about the direction of cars to come. Take a couple of minutes and head over to the Nova website and listen to him talk about the challenges and opportunities for making cars better, stronger, faster, and more efficient. Okay, now you can make jokes about dangley bits. [Nova]

NPR reports that expensive gadgets are "crimogenic"— that is, they cause thefts to happen, by their very nature. Not hard to see why GPS's are super-crimogenic. The street value for a GPS receiver is six times that of a basic radio. And because GPS receivers are often affixed to windshields with little more than suction cups, they're are often easier to snatch.

Here are the facts. They are cold and they are hard. If you leave your GPS receiver suctioned to the windshield at all times of the day, it's going to get stolen, period. Secondly, if you do make the stupid mistake of leaving your gadgets out in plain sight, at least register your device with the manufacturer, so on the slim to nil chance your gadget is recovered, it can actually be identified as yours.

Thanks for the kind info, NPR. The pledge-drive check is in the mail. [NPR]