Goodies // Random Awesomeness I Encounter

A Political Map of Pangea

By Ben | maps, science

What would Pangea look like if we plopped our current political borders on top of [&hellip

Tracking Cicada Swarmageddon 2013

By Ben | animals, maps, science

This summer, the septadecennial cicadas of Brood 2 will emerge from the ground from Georgia [&hellip

Influ-Venn-Za: Who Can Catch Which Flu?

By Ben | infographics, science

  A very nicely designed diagram showing what animals are susceptible to which flu viruses. [&hellip

Atomic Scale Stop Motion (now with witty comments)

By Ben | science

Ever wonder what nanophysicists do for fun? Make stop-motion films where the pixels are individual [&hellip

An Interactive Representation of Time

By Ben | art, infographics, science

  Getting a sense of how long various lengths of time, especially the really big [&hellip

Wringing out Water from a Washcloth in Zero G

By Ben | science, space

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TssbmY-GM] My initial thoughts on what would happen were pretty wrong- though once I [&hellip

Streamlines Visualize Gravitational Fields

By Ben | infographics, science, space

From matthen: "Streamlines exposing the structure of a gravitational field surrounding multiple masses. Streamlines run in the direction [&hellip

Love & the Strong Nuclear Force

By Ben | funny, science

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A Slower Speed of Light - Relativistic Gaming

By Ben | education, games, science

If you've every wondered what it'd be like to travel near the speed, of light, [&hellip

Murder Cats- An Infographic

By Ben | animals, funny, infographics, science

Below: A highlight from Oatmeal's summary of actual research on the predatory patterns of domesticated [&hellip

The Great Biotic Debate

By Ben | funny, science

  via reddit

A Child-Eating Sasquatch Explains Dopamine

By Ben | art, science

From the video's description: "A Rutgers Neuroscience graduate student briefly elaborates on dopamine in terms [&hellip

What are the odds a meteor will destroy a city?

By Ben | infographics, math, science

via BoingBoing by Per Square Mile

Gravity-Defying Water Illusion

By Ben | science

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uENITui5_jU&version=3&hl=en_US] It may look like the water in the video above is ignoring gravity. [&hellip

A Gynandromorph Cardinal (half-male, half-female)

By Ben | animals, science

"A gynandromorph, as the name implies, is an animal that is part male and part [&hellip

Wave Pendulums: The Ultimate Desktop Toy

By Ben | science

Joe Hanson of It's Okay To Be Smart explains: A wave pendulum like this is built of [&hellip

15,000 Volts + Wood = Art

By Ben | art, science

15,000 Volts from Melanie Hoff on Vimeo. “Sometimes the best way to create something is [&hellip

The Pitch Drop Experiment (the longest continuously running experiment)

By Ben | science

"In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass [&hellip

The Solar System to Scale (includes some TNOs)

By Ben | art, infographics, science, space

Includes the dwarf planets Pluto, Huamea, MakeMake, & Eris, but bafflingly excludes Ceres. via reddit, [&hellip

Scientists' Names Illustrated

By Ben | art, science

by Kapil Bhagat in honor of Science Day in India, see more at this link. via [&hellip

Lava Fountains vs the Empire State Building

By Ben | infographics, nature, science

Lava fountains are impressive. Recently Mt. Etna has been throwing up lava fountains that reach [&hellip

Exoplanets Are As Plentiful As Weeds

By Ben | infographics, science, space

"NASA's Kepler mission has already found more than 100 planets, along with strong hints of [&hellip

The Helical Model of the Solar System (is probably crap)

By Ben | science, space

So, I saw this beautiful & interesting GIF via the twitter: . Intrigued, I hunted [&hellip

Cute NOVA cartoon; Gross tongue-eating parasite

By Ben | animals, nature, science

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=327-bwMQI-Y] Parasites seem to have some of the craziest & most interesting life cycles. [&hellip

Compilation of videos showing the shockwave from the Chelyabinsk Meteor

By Ben | nature, science

I'm assuming if your co-workers understand Russian this video is NSFW. Chelyabinsk Meteor Shockwave Compilation

Elemental Symbols vs. States in the Union

By Ben | infographics, science

  by redditor Smashinator via Neatorama

Mars Curiosity takes its Profile Pic

By Ben | science, space

This is totally Curiosity's version of the duck face. APOD: 2013 February 22 - Curiosity [&hellip

Quality of diagram v. Desire to not actually work on a physics problem.

By Ben | funny, science

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Elemental (as in Periodic Table) Character Design

By Ben | art, science

Elements- Experiments in Character Design via Neatorama