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
A spider’s web is a finely tuned violin
∞ Scientist descends into Turkmenistan’s ‘door to hell’
“Secular children were more likely than religious children to judge protagonists in fantasy stories to be fictional.”
A Call to Fight Malaria One Mosquito at a Time by Altering DNA
You want to know more about the absurd lamprey don’t you?
6 Scientific Reasons You Can’t Stop Looking At Ruin Porn
∞ The elegant physics of a fish forcing food into its face
This is Curiosity lasering a rock on Mars!
“Morgan Freeman may have played God in a movie, but he needs a primer on how the brain functions.”
MIT students make an ice cream 3D printer
Computer modeling a nuclear winter
Rescuers of a zombie spacecraft uncover a treasure trove of NASA Moon photos
How shark skin may start dealing with the biofouling menace
Why galaxies smashing into each other can be so pretty
“Forget the hammer and sickle, communism, your symbol should be the ocean dandelion.”
∞ Why do snakes bite themselves in microgravity?
Fossils of strange Cambrian predator preserved with brains intact
New study suggests that it’s time to drop the talent vs. practice debate (and destroy the 10,000 hour rule)
Marine scientists respond to Shark Week’s latest publicity stunt
More Americans believe in the 10% brain myth than in evolution
∞ Researchers make literally the blackest material ever, but one snake beat them to the concept
Engineering a worm that can’t get drunk
The other grocery line really is faster. We could fix that but we don’t want to
Sunflowers don’t just sway by following the sun
How to measure the width of one of your hairs with a laser!
You have way more than 5 senses, and other brain myths
Why is your brain in your head?
The science of cool breaks down into four main traits, which themselves are not very cool
The best review of Bigfoot hair samples finds absolutely nothing
“The creature has weaponized bubbles.”
The oceans are alive with microbes that function as lungs
∞ Where does a wave you see hit the beach come from? Maybe the other side of the world
Extreme Nerdery
∞ Anime physics is weird, and weirdly constant. Here are some of my favorites
Attempting a real Holodeck with motion capture and Oculus Rift tech
Proving nature is awesome, these geckos have Metal Gear Solid-style camouflage
∞ How long would it take for one half of humanity to eat the other half?
How long would Batman last in the real world?
∞ There’s a plausible way to make a super-intelligent chimp like Caesar
TMNT vs their historical counterparts
If the skeleton scene in Game of Thrones wasn’t motion capture I’ll be blown away
Deep Digital Science Behind “Dawn of the Planet of the Apesâ€
∞ If Superman was like the “Supermoon”
Sciencey GIFs and Images
The Sun releases a filament. In other words, 0_o
∞ Alter your state of consciousness and walk through a shipping container made of kaleidoscope
Yeah let’s call this the Giant Squid nebula and not what it looks like
I adore the sci-fi art in the OMNI collection
Watch tattooing in slow motion while getting a real tattoo
Incredible macro photo of a hummingbird by Chris Morgan
∞ Artist RJ Palmer knows that a feathered t. rex can indeed be badass
Curiosity rolls up to a large iron meteorite dubbed “Lebanon”
The next best thing to Daft Punk masks are infinity mirror masks
Stabilize that famous cheetah GIF and you can appreciate its skill even more
Artist and beekeeper Ren Ri uses geometry, randomness, and religion to craft amazing bee hives
Mountain lions go for the back of your neck, scorpions don’t really kill anyone, and other things I learned from this
A bridge between galaxies and an amazing example of gravitational lensing
∞ Fantastic mirage at the Scottish Open
Dad builds son near-perfect LEGO Boba Fett costume
Pop Culture Happenings
The line to get into Comic-Con 1983
8-bit pixel sunglasses implore everyone around you to deal with it
Help a Star Wars charity via a Stewart and Colbert video
Star Wars as a Minecraft movie looks damn impressive
∞ Celebrate Apollo 11 history by watching Buzz Aldrin punch this jerk in the face
“The 67 snails were incinerated once inspectors positively identified them.”
What it’s like to own the most famous cat in the world
Collection of “godlike” concept art features some of my favorites: MTG, SOTC, and God of War
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