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
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
Carl Sagan would have been 80 this week. We miss you Carl. Your way with words gets me every time
∞ The most objective study yet finds no link between violent video games and violent behavior
When to fly to get there on time? Six million flights analyzed
It’s actually smart to be mean onlineÂ
Hummingbirds use their pointed beaks for sipping nectar…and throat-stabbing
Rocket experiment captures glow attributed to renegade stars in intergalactic space
How Did Porcupine Repel 17 Lions? Explaining Viral Video
∞ You should watch an insect breathe
Bats jam each other’s echolocation in acoustic warfare
We used to think that elephants didn’t have knees
The most beautiful slug lays tortilla shell eggs and concentrates venom in its skin. And swims.
How to make a ghost from a machine
A pulsing pastry termite queen might put out 219,000,000 eggs in her lifetime
The hills are alive with the sound of…West Coast Bull Tahr
The LHC will eventually record 400,000 terabytes of data each year
Your desk chair is killing you, slowly, menacingly
We only learned about the microbe most influenced by our genes three years ago
We are learning how “the perfect human pathogen” makes us poop all weekend
This is what a baby solar system looks like
∞ Professor Mark Weislogel likes to drop goldfish from buildings. Don’t worry, it’s for science.
This is what it looks like when two black holes consume each other
We know what detonating an atomic bomb in space looks like because we tried it
The Astonishing Weaponry of Dung Beetles
Why are there so few left-handed people?
“On average, GM tech reduced pesticide use by 37%, increased crop yields by 22%, and increased farmer profits by 68%”
Intel’s Prize-Winning Wearable Is A Selfie-Taking Drone That Lives On Your Wrist
There is no “healthy” microbiome
∞ They released the paper! “An Immense Concentration Orb-Weaving Spiders”
29 bullet points explaining why we are currently screwed with climate change
“This new clock can sense the pace of time speeding up as it moves inch by inch away from the earth’s core.”
Extreme Nerdery
Yeah, X-Men: Days of Future Past did have some pretty jacked-up time travel logic
∞ I got to ride the Hendo hoverboard. It’s pretty McFly
New book Faster, Higher, Stronger why the future of sports depends on nerds
Stunning Shadow of the Colossus fan art
What putting a GoPro inside a floating sphere of water in space looks like
∞ Get the physics just right and you can turn a wormhole into a time machine
The AVENGERS’ Helicarrier is Finally Real (For Model Airplanes)
I got my hands on a limited edition Cards Against Humanity science pack. It’s pretty darn funny
What Reddit Would Look Like If It Were A Real Geographic Place
∞ Zuckerberg makes the minimum wage worker’s daily salary every second, or 25 water bottles full of change
How does the famous “Missingno” glitch work?
The walking dead don’t stand a chance against wildlife
Sooo, this interactive tells me that I can’t outrun a velociraptor, or t. rex, but I’ll destroy a tortoise
Sciencey GIFs and Images
The letter “e” on New York Times newsprint, in Times New Roman size 10
Animation of shortest possible tour of all Sweden’s cities, towns and villages. 72,500 km in total
A polymer ball’s natural habitat is the water, where it’s invisible
∞ How fast are jumping spiders? It looks like they can *teleport*
Sometimes ice appears out of anime mallet space
∞ The owl mothership has returned
High phase of crescent Saturn and Titan
This image isn’t moving. C’mon brain you can do this.
Don’t forget to open the valves when you’re creating a vacuum in your truck
Some video of the robodorable baby penguin rover
Stereographic projection is sorcerer math
That’s not a zoom lens, *this* is a zoom lens
Alright, I don’t believe this at all, but this shuttle launch cloud made a dragon?
∞ A shot of a rotary sander while running
Pop Culture Happenings
Marie Curie’s papers are still radioactive
Big Hero 6 Is One Of The Year’s Best Science Fiction Films, Period
“Everyone who denies climate change has the same stirring message: I have no idea what the f*** I’m talking about.”
∞ I can’t explain Too Many Cooks, you just have to watch it
Teamwork when a man’s leg doesn’t mind the gap
Anthropologists Are On The Verge Of Figuring Out How You’re Supposed To Read Tumblr Comments
Ionizing laser pulses can make art that flickers in the air
They threatened to walk off set if he tried it, and he didn’t even flinch
Grand Theft Auto V absolutely deserves to be played in first-person
Twitter has given you away New Yorkers. Science says you can’t stop slacking off after noon
∞ I have no idea what this beautiful and odd sounding instrument is, but I love it
Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater
I don’t care if it’s from 2007, the headline is gold
∞ Hardcore: An action film made entirely in first-person with Sharlto Copley
Woah dude. Surfing at 1,000 frames per second
Absolutely awesome: Aug(de)mented Reality 2
“…it actually made my heart hurt.†— The Mountain
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Image:Â NASA/SDO/Goddard Space Flight Center
