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
Do Dogs Fall for Magic Tricks?
Some activities are so automatic that you really can do them in your sleep
Before dead whales were the feasts of the sea floor, there were dead ichthyosaur buffets
∞ An unusual day is a day where nothing unusual happens
Will the Higgs Boson Destroy the Universe? Nope.
Brain trauma will affect 1/3rd of NFL players at early ages, and the NFL agrees
These wasps created an artificial viewing area by building on someone’s window
Baby fennec fox is the main-line of adorable you need right now
How unspecial are we? Well, have you ever had a staring contest with an Orangutan?
Catnip is the only recreational drug we routinely give to animals. Here’s how it works
A society of naked mole rats is cancer-free, but has Game of Thrones-style assassinations
∞ We’ve pieced together the biggest carnivorous dinosaur ever. It was kinda like Godzilla
Rosetta takes an incredible image of itself with Comet 67P
Doctors call a reddish nose tumor “Clown Nose”
Don’t touch anything that looks like Donald Trump’s hair
How a bloodworm demonstrates the awesome convergence in the evolution of venom
The kraken: A mysterious mythical beast that we’ve gotten almost 100% wrong
∞ We are racing to save the rarest fish in the world. It’s named after puppies
In which orcas hunt and eat a tiger shark
The Snot Bot is a drone that collects whale sneezes for science
Large study on daily pot use among teens sparks up some worries
No one should have this power. A house destroyed so quickly by a nuclear test that the camera inside stayed standing
∞ This is how you pull silk from a spider
Of course the pendulum wave is better with bowling balls
Coral groupers display intelligence by choosing suitable moray eels as hunting partners
Why jurors and policemen need stress relief
Climate change is set to bring *half* of North America’s birds to the edge of extinction
This is how beer making works! I’m fermenting about it right now
How form matches the function of battling beetles
Giving Australian teens access to free HPV vaccines has been a huge success
What’s Wrong with Alternative Medicine?
∞ A virus can cover most of your office in as little as 2 hours. Yeah, that one sniffling guy really did get everyone sick
Extreme Nerdery
Artist Eleanor Lutz brings you the best version of a science textbook image
100 chart-topping songs…as graphs
∞ A real Edge of Tomorrow suit would hardly be for combat at all
I’ll just leave this here if you need Carl Sagan to help someone find information
∞ Picard was never turned into chunky salsa by inertia. Tech like that could eliminate all concussions
An Architect’s Guide to Famous Villain’s Lairs
∞ Archaeologists hate Indiana Jones because he is a looter
Number Of Different Teams Possible in Pokémon: 216,217,804,439,226,231,642
I’ll buy any smartwatch if it can make me GoldenEye 007
Sciencey GIFs and Images
For science’s sake DO NOT try this but this moray does seem kinda friendly
∞ Kitten needed protective goggles for laser surgery, but we needed protection from the DORBS
These squares are exactly the same color. C’mon brain you can do this.
This image isn’t moving. C’mon brain you can do this.
Redditor shows how chrome builds up on some of the plating equipment after heavy use
∞ This cat was not a smoker, obviously
The physics of football doesn’t mix well with the physiology of the body
The current spread of Ebola, from March to September
A quicker way to get your shirt off is to accidentally sample the immense pressures inside a truck tire
Electrically heating a rod of graphite makes a lightsaber kindof
∞ I love obvious answers to physics problems
Dashcam advantage #58: Seeing the destructive power of a tornado up close
Keeping your shop floor continuous while moving machinery around is mesmerizing
Cigarette sales in packs per capita (1970-2012)
I won’t get sick of watching a person on the edge of a roiling lava cauldron
Pop Culture Happenings
This sums up why I love Reddit
∞ I’m calling it: My favorite Rube Goldberg machine runs only on light
Japan reealllly wants to start whaling again
Edgar Allan Poe: Part-Time Cosmologist & Big-Bang Philosopher
I hate hipsters. Wait. Hipsters?
∞ Robin Hood, Men In Ed Hardy Shirts
We have enough data to make suitable airplane seats for most people, but we don’t use it
This cape is made from the silk of 1.2 million orb-weaver spiders
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