I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this geeky goodness. You can find the thousands of links from previous weeks here.
I have marked my favorite links with a 8. Enjoy.
Science to Read, Watch
The blind have more nightmares, and it gets more interesting from there
8 A whale graveyard where dozens of ancient giants met their end by something almost microscopic
Sock for the heart, and you’re to blame. You give science a good name
The fruit fly’s refusal to be monogamous tells us something about how intelligence evolved
When your friend is down, lend a helping trunk, elephants do
Giant scary birds were giant, scary, but probably not mammal-munchers
8 A wasp with a zombifying stinger able to sense its way through a cockroach brain in under a minute
The jewel wasp is the preeminent cockraoch brain surgeon
What does Smaug have in common with a beetle? More than you may think
Robots of a rotor synchronize their motors
“We are simultaneously on the precipice of several different cliffs.”
8 What’s better than talking science? Talking science with geeky 11-year olds! Listen here
Spiders can hear human activity and learn to work around it
“When we look into the eyes of an elephant, we should recognize an intellectual equal”
8 We bleed 500,000 horseshoe crabs a year for medical services we absolutely cannot get anywhere else
Why we should eat more (delicious) bugs to save the world
Watch the world’s fastest wire-bending machine forever
We have found a bacterium that kills Zebra mussels
A simple task that shows how important the scientific method is: Can You Solve This?
I honestly didn’t know how LEDs worked until Minute Physics explained it with electron spas and parties
8 Could A Skyrim Shout Ever Knock Someone Over?
Arachnophobes imagine spiders as bigger and closer than they really are (but they really are everywhere)
The rock that hit the moon had more energy than is released in the fission of 1 gram of U-235
“The Secret” assumes an extreme emotion is always good. It’s wrong: The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking
8 Why don’t we get outraged over the nonsense sold at Whole Foods?
Alan Alda wants to make scientists better communicators by making them actors, but really just more “human”
Visualizing 100,000 asteroids at once is of course beautiful
Have you thought of the invasive species crawling around beneath your feet?
The natural selection of oblong egg shape in seabirds, in one GIF
The Cassini spacecraft crosses Saturn’s ring plane, inadvertently photographs the best scifi book cover ever
Extreme Nerdery
8 GLaDOS makes an appearance in a NASA science explainer video
If you make your golf ball-powered rocket just right, you can score ALL the hole-in-ones
A True Detective infographic that is obsessive, speculative, and awesome, just like the show
There is a protist in a termite gut that is named Cthulhu
8 If everyone in The Hobbit was a lady. Fantastic
Incoming transmission Captain…
Eventually, Godzilla will be so big that no kaiju could take it down
8 My new favorite instrument can play the Super Mario theme better than anything
Kramer was right about the Ukraine in Risk
It had to happen: A robot that could destroy your Flappy Bird high-score
Sciencey GIFs and Images
8 Still little more chilling than nuclear testing in black and white
Chinese pest eradication poster, Ding Hao (1958)
A murmation of beautiful murmation photos
Set alcohol vapors alight and you get a gorgeous cross between a brain and a developing blastula
You saw the Moon and Saturn together, now see the GIF of the Moon eating Saturn
8 Besides brilliant science communication and funny comics, xkcd also makes actually useful infographics
Following only what’s in the games…prepare yourself…people ARE Pokemon
You guys, 3D WELDING
A GIF from MARS
8 A moist owlet
Pop Culture Happenings
8 Finally, some footage of Li Hongbo’s amazing paper sculptures
It’s exactly what we were worried about: Bill Nye Debate Sparked Funding ‘Miracle’
A History of Clickbait: The First 100 Years
Hyping Your Conspiracy Theory In 5 Easy Steps
8 A ticker tape of real-time porn search terms (very NSFW, very interesting)
Huh. Those “Do Drugs” pencils were real, and only changed after a kid noticed
Who Said It: Ted Nugent or Eric Cartman?
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