I have dug through the Internet this week and 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.
∞ Could Benedict Cumberbatch could crush your skull? Star Trek Into Skull Trauma
. I answer all the important questions at Slate. Science on the Vine: Flower Sexy Time
. My continuing 6-second science series How big a phone would all the iPhones on Earth make
? Cruel and unusually interesting: Injecting a plump tick with hydrogen peroxide
Someone please find me a place to buy this space-time carpet
A slower GIF of how dog tongues work
. Still amazing ∞ Um, food coloring in milk is one of the prettiest things
SPACE PRON: The Witch's Broom nebula
Carl Sagan+Lando Calrissian=......
[Hint: Still a cool dude] XKCD makes reading technical reports way more fun
∞ The difference between a congratulatory handshake from Bones and a tearful Vulcan salute from Spock is a water bear
Why do we drive on the left or right side of the road
? Probably imperialism or farming or war ∞ A wonderful application of worms: Making art out of silk worm work
(be sure to watch the video) Awesome macro-organism behavior from caterpillars
. Move faster as one! ∞ "I don't care what Stephen King says. I don't need the supernatural to be in awe of nature
." Why you don't want to land an airplane in a crosswind
What are the most controversial topics on Wikipedia
? Really interesting to see it broken down by language Do you actually feel the temperature of something
? It's a hot answer, maybe, I don't know. What on Earth is the Richat Structure
? A neutron star doesn't look so big when placed next to Manhattan. But the gravity would kill everyone
. (And the shadow is wrong.) Relax, Passengers: Aircraft Doors Can't Open In Flight
Sea stars might channel heat into their arms until they damage them enough to detach
. (Like a Mass Effect thermal clip) Mermaids Return From the Depths of TV’s Chum Bucket
. On the agonizing demise of science content on Animal Planet Hell yeah steampunk AT-AT
I'm finding tons of great stuff at the Scientific Illustration Tumblr
∞ Sync a camera's frame-rate with a helicopter's blades and it looks like the thing hovers impossibly
Watch a white blood cell chase bacteria around
. Your immune system is basically THE BLOB Sometimes, the fish fight back
. The other danger Asian carp's pose Professor to Discovery Institute
: "Best wishes for the speedy demise of the sham institution that employs you." That awkward moment when you realize you're an NPC
With Alzheimer’s Comes...Empathy.
How a degenerative disease surprisingly increases feelings of warmth and connectedness Long for the universe? You could always step into one of these infinity rooms
∞ Camouflage can't hide this owl's beauty
"We opened the Moon for colonists...it wasn't long until they took over Earth
" Have you ever seen a carpet bombing
? GIF of war XKCD on cancer research
. A lot of things kill cells in a dish... Dolphin midwives are the worst idea ever
∞ "The wonderful thing about science is that it doesn't ask for faith, it just asks for your eyes
." Just how dead is a doornail
? A team of doctors answer The eyes of the world
When the only tool you have is a field-biology kit, everything looks like a male.
When years or searching only turns up female bats. The 10 rules of evolution in science fiction
are delightfully 13-year old brained Dear students and teachers, we love your emails, it's why we do what we do, but we can't do your homework
There is natural majesty in everything. Even this bench
: Do You "See" or "Hear" Words You Have to Spell? ∞ Why fears about "new allergens" in GM food are precisely wrong
is a scary thing Death Star Public Relations: Your move, internet
. ∞ Watching two smoke rings perfectly collide
is like watching a perfect kiss When you look at a human colonization GIF
, it's like planet cancer Octopus mushroom
anyone? ∞ If homeopathy worked, a pool would know who peed in it: The Miracle of Molecular Medicine
When a 9-yr old boy solves a train engineering problem
with a simple loop How do you figure out why dogs yawn
? Put them in a test chamber and yawn at them! Super Mario World 1-1, completed by a million little Marios
Where do the world's atheists live
? A beautiful, if a little macabre, Japanese illustration of decomposition from the 1800s
∞ I am vengeance. I am the night. I am...fabulous
Lion meat tacos: A bad idea in every way
I'm pretty sure this is what Sagan was envisioning when he spoke of the "shores of the cosmic ocean
." Maybe stoned Bill Nye explains that Superman must grind down his beard
? I'd be out of a job and have an additional 12 hours of free time The glaciers erode away, leaving ridged, icy blue remnants
∞ Michael Collins is the only human, living or dead, not contained in the frame of this picture
A fun New Yorker interactive: A universe of popular movie franchises
I am blow away how far you can zoom in on a 45 Gigapixel camera shot
! ∞ Is there any photo of Enceladus
that isn't amazing? Underground nuclear explosions look incredible
Fill light bulbs with cool stuff then blow them up. Much prettier than it sounds
If you have a medical emergency mid-flight, shout, "Is there a doctor in the fuselage
!?" Five reasons mermaids are impossible
. A pretty fishy fable. I think this is great science communication: Teaching physics through Angry Birds
and experiment How Tardigrades Saved The Enterprise
∞ Mesmerizing. Watch Google searches in real-time
Someone is stealing the mysteriously roaming rocks from Death Valley
. A creeping disease in cognitive neuroscience: Making it psychology
Seeing an iceberg from the top of a sailboat mast
gives me serious vertigo BuzzFeed isn't genius, it's a machine
Put it to rest: Hair doesn't grow after death
Gyroscopically stabilized cameras
are SORCERY This is what Kickstarter is for: Turn your bike wheels into GIF-projectors
∞ For some reason, #2 is the worst for me: 9 Predators With The Most Brutal Hunting Techniques
strong enough to ignite paper. Maybe the best way to get aliens to notice us
is a kamikaze probe What is the limit on human speed? Math vs. Usain Bolt
Light refraction makes it look like this boat is impossibly floating
... I really enjoyed Joss Whedon's commencement speech
. "Be the part of life other than death." What would I use to show how information propagates? A slinky, definitely
∞ One of the best insect documentaries I've seen is on the return of the cicada
. Planet Earth-level stuff
