Richard Branson goes by many titles - Sir (Branson was named a Knight Bachelor of the United Kingdom in 1999 for services to entrepreneurship), Rebel Billionaire (after his The Apprentice-style reality show), adventurer, and media personality - and with his latest project, he looks ready to add another one: leader of the return to space. On 28 July of this year, in the Mojave Desert, he christened a unit of the space plane “Scalable Composites White Knight Two” as VMS Eve, after his mother.

Let’s hear it for the alternative media now made possible by the Internet, which allows for new and radical interpretations of knowledge – and teaching it – ripe for the taking! If the things we spotlight for this week’s What’s the Buzz don’t make you want to turn to science, the Mythbusters, and your textbooks to revisit what you learned from them – we declare you “Busted!”