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
We could get 19.44mbps wifi on the Moon with the help of MIT lasers
∞ It’s time to stop shaking hands in hospitals. Try finger guns or a fist bump
New orbital images of Curiosity landing site on Mars are painfully pretty
∞ A modern Jacques Cousteau wants to show you the wonders of the deep, but he needs your help
Titanoboa: An ancient snake that was big enough to eat everything
Dimetrodon is not a dinosaur, so throw away that Jurassic Park toy
Evolution produced huge, flightless birds at least six times, independently
A fruit fly needs time to make up its mind. Its mind!
What half-male and half-female animals can teach us about development and disease
Is the internet wrecking kids’ brains? Probably not, but we don’t know enough yet
The Case Against Antibacterial Soap
The Chelyabinsk meteor wasn’t even the full space rock. It smashed into something else before our atmosphere
“Several scientists fought for the superiority of the name Scrotum humanum over Megalosaurus until the 1990s”
This creature was masquerading as a sea anemone until its DNA gave it away
∞ Why don’t we all have cancer?
Comb jellies turn out to be the closest thing to an alien intelligence we have
It’s oddly existential that even forest critters will run on a wheel if you put one in the wilderness
We have no idea how lightning gets started, but it could be another weird aspect of solar wind
Another parasitic wasp, another horrible, mind-controlling, digging your own grave way to die
How to photograph the emergence of the most dangerous animal on Earth
For climatologists tracking a mysterious disease, the answer is literally blowing in the wind
We’ll bring aliens the equivalent of smallpox, probably, if we don’t properly clean our spacecraft
∞ You’ve seen photos of supercells forming, but they don’t do them justice. Videos do
Extreme Nerdery
You can thank me when your hearts are replenished
I’ll just let you decide what these images say
Timeline infographics of sci-fi franchises are actually pretty helpful
This is why tabletop games are vastly superior to video games
Cosmos On Weed with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Wow girl that is some fantastic Darth Maul makeup
∞ How close are the X-Men to a new species?
Cheap flights to Westeros if you feel like throwing someone through a moon door
Watch me talk some X-Men science with Jessica Chobot in the latest Nerdist News!
Nature’s own ‘Mystique’ has eight arms and a beak
Bioshock coincidentally looks exactly like this 1973 Japanese sci-fi magazine cover
“Other than it being a really bad idea…can I ignite all the pollen!?”
Conan really sells getting impaled by a samurai sword
Functional star gate recreated in Minecraft
Science comes to Game of Thrones
Captain America physics slightly more believable than the ricocheting shield
Whoever was controlling this LEGO R2D2 and interacting with this little girl is just the best
100 pounds of magnetic putty is as cool as it sounds
∞ How long is a fall from The Eyrie’s moon door? About 1,300 meters
Sciencey GIFs and Images
Watched MythBusters for a decade, and this might be my favorite
“Don’t tread on me” works better when you can really back it up
Damn my brain’s lighting and shading assumptions!
Miss the meteor shower? Don’t worry. As always, NASA has got you covered
∞ Excuse me miss, did you drop your can of sugar gliders?
The best illusions of the year are pretty good
Your dog pretty good at catching toys? That’s nice. This is a panther
Science GIF Hall of Fame Inductee #006: Burning steel wool
Science GIF Hall of Fame Inductee #007: Ultra slo-mo glass break
If the bug won’t come to the web, bring the web to the bug
Physics lets you do legless push-ups
Jeez I had no idea this turtle could be so terrifying
The Alitta virens grows to 60-70 cm and can bite humans with it pincer teeth. Are you scared?
Expedition 39 snapped this majestic storm shot before leaving the ISS
“Don’t play in traffic.”–Momma bear
When pigs fly (because of pissed-off rhinos)
∞ John Oliver’s fantastic point about climate change opinion polls, GIFified
I am going to apologize in advance for ruining your day with this GIF
Orcas working together to unseat a seal. Incredible
We could use moose as snow plows, if we found a way to harness their furry power
American Woodcock struttin his fine badonk
Pop Culture Happenings
How close are you to applying to be an astronaut? I need a lot of flight experience
There’s a Tarantula Version of the Westminster Dog Show
Creationists to use dinosaur skeleton objectively older than “the great flood” to prove the great flood happened
Why Godzilla Kicked Pacific Rim’s Ass at the Box Office (Even if it wasn’t as original)
The tangled legal mess that is Yellowstone’s “zone of death,” where you might get away with murder
Absolutely ruining coloring books since whenever
The most famous classic female forms in art, photoshopped for today
Inside the Color Factory: My Chat With a Photo Colorizer
Very satisfying: http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com
A hand-held guillotine for those doomed garden snails
∞ Google’s self-driving cars have never gotten a ticket. They’ve never even been pulled over
This is a GIF of a Vine of a Video of a Flipbook of a GIF of a Video of a Roller Coaster
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IMAGE: CERN
