For months we’ve been trying to figure out how to add cheesecake to Dethroner without taking the low and easy road (not that there’s a god damn thing wrong with giving some eye-service to some women solely on the merit of their curves. [Could we call that "Bezier Mucho?"]) The strongest idea we’ve had so far—besides a “Fetish 101 Theme Week,” which I’d still love to do at some point—has been a survey of the hottest women in academia, hot science teachers or sexy industrial chemists and the like. I’ve always been stumped trying to track these nerd lovelies down.

But today we’re presented with a double threat, so it’s time to pounce: Dava Newman, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, has developed this new form-fitting space suit that uses mechanical counter-pressure instead of gas pressure to keep an astronaut’s body from spurting into space like a 87-million-dollar ketchup packet. Newman chose to model the suit herself and looks pretty swell doing so, but I can’t help but thank her for the now imminent resurgence in form-fitting space wear on models of all stripes between now and the suit’s completion, hopefully in the next decade or so. Down with bulky marshmallow suits! Up with Barbarella-inspired space vixens!

One giant leap for space fashion: MIT team designs sleek, skintight spacesuit [MIT.edu]