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I checked my email and was rescued by the news flash that Google puts out on my account because I had nothing to write about. But now I do. SCIENCE you guys!

Apparently there is a Belgian man who has been in a coma for 23 years but has been conscious the whole time. That would stink. There would be nothing to do but hang out and listen and think. I guess you would probably learn a lot about the people around you, but its not like you could do anything with it. So the way that they found out that he has been conscious is that a helper held his finger and helped him type on a keypad. I cannot imagine how this works, considering he is still in a coma, but apparently the therapist can feel him guiding his finger with gentle pressure. Also his physician said that brain scans show that he is not in a complete vegetative state, but is conscious. If I am ever in a conscious coma or whatever this guy is in, I would like to request lots of Sherlock Holmes audio books. Also, lots of biographies and Encyclopedia Browns.
Also, a satellite meant to detect gamma rays has found 17 occurrences of high-energy gamma rays on earth, all coinciding with lighting strikes detected by a lightning tracker. This is where it gets cool: in one of these gamma ray emitting lightning strikes, there were a bunch of positrons- antimatter! So cool you guys. Antimatter annihilates matter. It is the opposite of an electron.
The energy of lighting can cause electrons to react with the atmosphere like a particle accelerator (which by the way, has also been in the news, CERN had its big atom smash a few days ago) and create lightning and the gamma radiation. This could be big stuff. Antimatter is brutal and would probably be harnessed as a weapon- making it ultra destructive. But maybe it won't be used as a weapon and just make for cool new magic tricks?