Digging through the web this week, I uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.
I have marked my favorite links with a ∞. Enjoy.
Science to Read, Watch∞ Why a dead blue whale is so important
to science The third picture in this BBC piece on remote-controlled surgery
completely blows my mind What Seven Years at the Bottom of the Sea Does to a Shipping Container
Potentially the biggest dinosaur ever discovered
has man-sized bones Everything tastes salty, and only salty
, to whales. They're unlike all other mammals GE has made new MRIs that are getting ever closer to frog levitation
Title of study including 1.2 million children: "Vaccines are not associated with autism
" More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for ADHD
outside pediatric guidelines The scariest inhabitant of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
: The smell after it rains Take Steven Pinker's short psychology quiz
∞ "Gluten sensitivity": Probably a nocebo response from a food fad
Why octopus arms never get tangled
How you give a spider a personality test
(POKE IT) In a few decades, Jupiter's Great Red Spot could be gone
What Do Animals See in a Mirror
? A new way to measure animal energy expenditure
, expect for jellies, which nail the whole drifting thing You and your mom are even more connected than you think
The Internet and the Web are not the same thing
, and one is a deep, dark ocean How much of fairness is innate? That's a really complicated question
New study on cell phone use and brain cancer doesn't really find anything either way
Climate change is dire, but the timescales are long
∞ John Oliver and Bill Nye show the only real way to have a climate change debate
Does This Cannon Make My Butt Look Big
? Extreme Nerdery Suitably epic Game of Thrones infographic
will get you up to date on the coming winter ∞ Godzilla urinates like a thunderstorm
Dude has a MUCH better movie room
than you (if you have one) Those giant Super Mario bullets are nothing to be afraid of
, because physics Pokemon drawn as Mayan art
is GREAT. Jurassic Park lied to you: A T. rex could totally see you
better than you could see it FINALLY pneumatic Wolverine claws
∞ This is the military's actual plan to put down a zombie horde
...even from space Some math on the most expensive lawsuit EVER
Why do men gender-switch in games more than women? The hot avatars
http://deepseafauna.tumblr.com/
Don't try to stabilize Brad Pitt from 12 Monkeys, it just gets weirder
is how you'd expect a meeting with a live dinosaur would go There is some monster bass behind Godzilla's roar sound design
∞ We don't get to see all of Sherlock's mistakes
xkcd's Randall Munroe on "What If" and the time Google trolled him
"A list of movies that had a key character acquire superpowers from egregious violations of safe workplace practices
" Real-world Bioshock Infinite health regeneration is reallllly trashy
Sitting down with Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield, talking about Spider-Man and science
This Super Mario/Game of Thrones intro mash-up
is perfect The glaring inaccuracies of The Desolation of Smaug
, because pedantry ∞ I stomp around with some Godzilla biology
in my first Nerdist video! Sciencey GIFs and Images Heavy rainfall on sand dunes can lead to large-scale slumping
? Picture of Pogonomyrmex californicus burnt into an aluminum nest cast
Long week. You need this sloth GIF so much
After surgery to remove cancer from the right half of her pelvis, Jen O'shea discovered she had a new talent
A heated drop of lead hitting water
hides the crazy complicated physics going on with awesomeness ∞ NEVER take the skin off a robot if it is a robot baby
Twitter's logo is made from circles
These sloth facts are totally wrong and adorable
Science GIF Hall of Fame Inductee #005: Reverse crab molt
"Evolution made the male ruff bird after watching one too many British period dramas
." Opportunity traced the position of the Sun on Mars
at the same time of day over a Martian year Strong magnet versus old TV
You don't need special effects if you have a good camera and some ferrofluid
∞Belief in a higher power over time
Real-life Zelda cuckoo attack
We are sure that owls aren't Batman right
? Pollution looked real odd
on May 14, 2011 Neptune and its faint rings
, imaged by Voyager, wowed at by me See a flower poop a strawberry
The Best Way To Transport A Rhino? Upside Down, Tied to a Helicopter
Neil Tyson on while you should wear your seatbelt ALL THE TIME
is always going to be one of those "what have we created..." moments I don't care what it's actually called, it is the MC Hammer bird to me
Just imagine stepping on this on the beach
for a second Ahh. The physics of baseball
∞Long-exposure light-tipped helicopter
Cats also act like a field
when exposed to an outside pressure wave Pop Culture Happenings Alexandra Khitrova got a new career after finding out she was amazing at fantasy concept art
New York: Stop using soap with microbeads
and messing up the ocean and get a loofah The hand-painted and animated "GIF-iti" of artist INSA
is inspired ∞ This is probably the only stretch of water that no one will save you from. The reason? It's electrified
The ice cream truck song was the melody for one of the most racist songs ever
disturbed me, which is probably what he would have wanted Give yourself a bedbug tattoo
, because reasons! Love the scientific typeface that illustrates great inventions
A measured longread on the quagmire that is GMO labeling politics
∞ This little kid is better at yo-yo than I am at anything
Fantastic Fungi: The Startling Visual Diversity of Mushrooms Photographed by Steve Axford
! ∞ So interesting: Should a self-driving car drive you off a cliff
