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
Still amazing to watch: A jaguar takes a caiman
Really awesome to see a chemical at its “triple point.” Cyclohexane boils and freezes simultaneously
Mars One Will Blast Off, But Probably Not Toward Mars
You can’t even see 50 shades of gray
∞ I’m in love with atomic science even more after this article: “The Weight of a Butterfly”
What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above midtown Manhattan?
The Dress still breaking your brain? Understanding these more basic illusions might help
The GOSE-R spacecraft will observe Earth and (probably) not giant marshmallow monsters
∞ Hold still for a moment. You are helping put off the heat death of the universe
A short-lived fish is our next experiment in human aging
Put tick antifreeze proteins in me so I can sled nude ok thanx bi
Almost everything you’ve ever wanted to know about octopus sex
There was no global warming “pause,” the rate of warming slowed, but it’s still warming
∞ NASA shows us a blue sunset on Mars. It’s even better than Tatooine’s.
Would Headlights Work at Light Speed?
What dessicated, beetle-bitten, mummified brains look like
If our days lasted 90 minutes, we would be weightless
You can be scared to death if your heart can’t handle it
Fire ants got everywhere by being stowaways
∞ Fishing For the Microbes Behind Malnutrition
What are food additives getting our gut microbes to do?
A black hole that shines 40,000 times brighter than the entire Milky Way is too big
Siberia’s “end of the world” is still exploding
Make no mistake, Stephen Hawking is an extraordinary example of survival. But why?
Believers in conspiracy theories are much more robust in Facebook sharing
∞ The crumpling of a drag racer’s tire shows the raw power the vehicles deal with
Drag racers put out enough sound to make foam in your water bottle
The internet age has made myths easier to make, not easier to debunk
Why is February so short? Because it’s the garbage heap of calendar months
The foam in your latte helps to keep it from spilling
∞ Why does this jar of peanut butter cost $761? It’s the peanut butter standard
Ferns separated by 60 million years of evolution can still have sex, make viable offspring
The world’s rarest big cats have just doubled their tiny population
Marine animals have gotten much, much bigger over the last half-billion years
∞ Feeding infants peanut protein seems to drastically reduce peanut allergies later in life
A flapjack octopus is deep sea dorbs
Marijuana is so, so much safer than alcohol
What do we really know about the possibility of airborne Ebola?
I really enjoy being on the back of a leatherback sea turtle as it gulps down jellies
∞ Art installation uses Geiger counters to flicker a chandelier in response to ambient radiation
Extreme Nerdery
∞ A touching salute to the power of science fiction, inspiration, and Leonard Nimoy
Head for the Rocky Mountains if a zombie outbreak hits the US
The closest thing we have to the Star Wars worm that lives in asteroids
∞ Star Fox’s Falco Lombardi is a red-throated caracara
xkcd dubs The Dress “the white-balance illusion”
What color is that damn dress!?! I HAD TO KNOW
A website that tracks where our robots are exploring the universe
“Crikey steveirwini is the only species in the genus Crikey.”
∞ Maybe the Zelda timeline makes more sense with quantum mechanics
xkcd again amazes with a chart of past and future stories
What it looks like to beat the hardest Super Mario World levels ever, after 3 years of work
Just when you thought the land was safe, octopuses become Zoidbergs
A LEGO sarlacc diorama. Enough said
∞ Your geeky dinner parties won’t be complete without space-time decor
When pangolins go bipedal it looks just like the Mondoshawans from The Fifth Element
Sciencey GIFs and Images
Horseshoe crabs: The original paddle wheels
∞ Feeding a hungry hummingbird must feel like magic
A GIF of the recently caught monstrous wels catfish
Baby it’s cold outside
A gas leak under a New Jersey home explodes, captured on dash cam (no fatalities)
I absolutely love superimposed baseball GIFs
SloMo Lab’s exploding of a rubber band ball goes exactly as I wanted it to
Sharks: Better fishermen than you
∞ I don’t why it weirds me out that snails have mouths, but it totally does.
When you think you’ve caught a piece of ocean refuse but…
Mimosa pudica: The “touch me not” plant
∞ Flying into the eye of a hurricane is the most epic flight
The red-throated caracara feeds its young wasp larvae. To get them it flies into the nests, swarming with defenders
Now witness the fire power of this armed and fully operational battle cone
Work on Monday morning is a bobbit worm
An Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake on an Island
Pop Culture Happenings
Bill Nye has revised his view on GM foods and will revise his new book accordingly
∞ I wish this button would work now more than ever
Trade in Shark Fins Takes a Plunge
America Ebola outbreak measures: “It doesn’t appear that science was taken into consideration.”
The future gladiators are adorned with carbon fiber
WIRED’s TNG binge watching guide is a great primer for the best sci-fi series ever
∞ Wow I’ve never seen the buffalo-sized, wind-powered strandbeests
Meanwhile, in Russia
∞ And someone’s enemy finally gets a letter filled with f***ing glitter
50 Shades of Grey of course changed porn search terms almost instantly
Hungarian student designs banknotes that are beautiful, functional, and full of nature
More than 1,000 astounding vintage NASA photographs went up for auction
A petition to pardon 49,000 British men prosecuted for their sexual orientation is gaining momentum
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