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
What it felt like to be the last man on the Moon
What a cackle of hyenas can do to a carcass in one night
As oceans warm, starving sea lions wash ashore
∞ How the Penguin Got Its Waddle
3D acoustic levitation is still one of the few ‘WOW” videos I’ve seen
Being Stabbed with a Mucus Dagger Is Not Even the Worst Part of Snail Sex
The first successful penis transplant
A rocket that may one day take us to Mars roars to life
∞ “The first documented case of natural selection in humans for a defense against an environmental poison”
Male burying beetles who have more sex have less “self-esteem”
Ahhhh tiny chameleons are so dorbs
There are 228,445 known marine organisms
NASA Can Make 3 More Nuclear Batteries, And That’s It
Popping a water balloon underwater is exactly as cool as it sounds
∞ How Do Chameleons Change Color?
We have a new potential date for the start of the Anthropocene
Sometimes you have to feed a cow a magnet
On GMO spider Viagra: “One’s penis is not a good place to develop congestion.”
As if gecko feet weren’t amazing enough, their skin is self-cleaning too
As global warming opens up a path, whales will end up on the wrong side of the world
Ancient giant squid were still giant
Currently watching a peregrine falcon watching someone in Baltimore in real-time
On trying to get the perfect camera trap picture, and getting it
Why are van Gogh’s paintings slowly turning white?
∞ “Homeopathy is not effective for treating any health condition,” report concludes
The largest harvesting of animal biomass in human history was of whales in the last 100 years
I had no idea induction heating was so instantaneous
I’m astounded that a model plane can be so light that its propeller hardly needs to spin at all
We’ve located a star screaming through the galaxy at 2.7 million miles per hour
Are humans going extinct any time soon, or will we learn to better play the game?
Underwater nuclear explosions are like protests from Poseidon
∞ Meet LA’s newest mountain lions
Why do we pretend like all opinions are equal? Maybe the “equality bias”
Maybe my favorite solar system scale visualization: If the Moon Were Only One Pixel
Pendulum motion is so satisfying to watch with bowling balls
∞ An aquarium shark vomited up a human forearm and started a murder mystery
When a supernova explodes four times
Making an affordable, customizable 3D-printed arm for kids
Someone explain these awesome fluid dynamics to me
There are no “alternative cancer cures”
We might finally “vaccinate” ourselves against HIV without vaccines
∞ “Barehanding” live power lines looks pulse-pounding
Daylight Saving Time needs to die (at least as the US knows it)
Extreme Nerdery
The power of a good GIF: Making Pi instantly understandable
Gak is a decent thermal insulator, apparently
I’d love to walk into a science lab with sun shining through these beautiful portraits
Spider-Man moves to the country
∞ I love RDJ for giving a little fan a 3D-printed Iron Man limb in character
Do we have enough nuclear weapons to match Adventure Time’s “Mushroom War”?
∞ Paste into Google: 2+(-sqrt(1-x^2-(y- abs(x))^2))cos(30((2-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))), x is from -1 to 1, y is from -1 to 1.5, z is from 1 to 2
Apple Watch Vibranium Edition would cost $600,000
Every loop in Edge of Tomorrow
An interactive comic from Science explains general relativity with superhuman ease
Want to make a laser-guided blowgun for pocket change? Well, here ya go
∞ The tube of air weighs around the Eiffel Tower more than the Eiffel Tower, and other fantastic insights
No Man’s Sky is so big that the developers coded robots to explore it for them
A full map of Link’s Awakening
Sciencey GIFs and Images
Your reminder that giant anteater legs are pandas
∞ My new favorite GIF: Vaping in decibel-doused car on a high-speed camera
A nuclear blast up close looks like something out of Dragon Ball Z
Honestly, welding up-close and in slow-motion may be one of my most mind-melting GIFs ever
There is so much physics in this water balloon popping I wouldn’t know where to start
∞ I’ve never seen a shockwave this clearly
“The sheep…they have come.”
The delightful physics of the sand dunes in Merzouga, Morocco
Scientists sometimes make an ant Pompeii happen with molten metal
∞ Faig Ahmed’s glitch carpets will make your guests question their sanity
Mimic octopus: Beetlejuice sandworm edition
Pop Culture Happenings
Private flights have all the fun
∞ “We’ll return after these messages” was inserted to help younger viewers distinguish programming from advertising
The an interactive web of sexual encounters on Archer
Anti-vaxxer bets 100,000 that measles isn’t really a virus. Doctor provides proof. Court orders him to pay up
Why some people are scared of a Google truth machine
∞ The Heart-Stopping Climbs of Alex Honnold
Reverse psychology in advertising is now my favorite
Can’t disagree with the gifys winners this year
This is a real photo, with a real mayor
Amazing! Prosthetic Allows Dog To Sting With Deadly Poison For First Time
Attorneys expected to announce a coalition to take on the fraud and lies in the supplement industry
Headline of the day: “Concrete block full of human teeth serves as a memorial to dentist’s dog”
∞ Asphyxia: A trippy dance performance captured with Kinects
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, on the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, has “never sent an email”
In Florida, officials ban term ‘climate change’
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