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Need a Banecat t-shirt? Go here.

I love this poem. May Swenson invokes both the form of a DNA helix with her stacked, bulged lines of text, AND pays homage to a Marcel Duchamp painting in both words and shape. Ain’t it great when art and science get all snuggly?

Get your Dr. Who Shirt Here: Snorg Tee!

Get your Dr. Who Shirt Here: Snorg Tee!

We have brought you Jim Gordon, the Penguin, Harvey Bullock, and Selina Kyle.

Now here is our first look at teenaged Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne on the set of  FOX’s Gotham.

edwardspoonhands:

michaelaranda:

The carbon animation from Starstuff and Nanodiamonds, wherein Emily holds the oldest, smallest diamonds known to humankind.

I’ve been staring at this for two full minutes.

Orgasmic, organic, and orGIFmic.

sci-universe:

Technology at it’s cutest — The Bipedal Cycling Robot

In 2011, robot creator Masahiko Yamaguchi demonstrated a robot which can balance, steer and correct itself while riding a fixed-gear bike.

Full video with more information here.

Hipster-Bot 5000

Sit back, relax, and allow yourself to be hypnotized by this microscopic time-lapse video of snowflakes as the are born and evolve their emergent hexagonal complexity. 

This video, embedded below, is the fine work of Vyacheslav Ivanov:

And if you’d like to know more about the science of how snowflakes form and why they look that way, check out this video, from … me:

asapscience:

Wish you could have a dinosaur as a pet? Us too. Here’s a guide to best pet dinosaurs, by species. 

via SPLOID

Crucial knowledge. I guess if you really HAVE to have a dinopet you could get a chicken?

This photo which was taken on December 30th, 2013 by the by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (currently in orbit above Mars) shows what true Trek fans would recognize instantly as the United Federation of Planets Command insignia on the surface of our red neighbor.  The communicator-shapes are actually large sand dunes (furthering my theory that Mars is actually Arrakis) caused by the harsh wind storms that ravish the planet.

“For dune fields, the spacing of individual dunes is a function of sand supply, wind speed, and topography,” NASA explained on it’s website.  Tech Times notes, depicts several of these formations/structures across the Martian surface, near Mawrth Vallis, one of the oldest valleys on Mars.

 

 

L’illustrateur Russe Ilya Kuvshinov, alias KRONPR1NZ, fait le bonheur de ses followers deviantArt avec ses sublimes portraits d’héroïnes de la pop culture. On le suit de près, pour ne rien rater de ses beautés à venir !

Russian Ilya Kuvshinov, aka KRONPR1NZ is the joy of all her deviantArt followers with those beautiful portraits of pop culture heroines. Follow her closely and don’t miss her next beauty !

 

 

 

 

 

Megan Canning | posted by moshita.org


Megan Canning | posted by moshita.org


Megan Canning | posted by moshita.org


Megan Canning | posted by moshita.org


Megan Canning | posted by moshita.org


Megan Canning | posted by moshita.org


Megan Canning | posted by moshita.org

via moshita:

anatomical embroidery

Megan Canning

Can I make a “pulls at my heartstrings” joke?

What? Oh, I already did that in another post about science embroidery? Oh.

Wait, you mean I have a whole page full of science posts tagged “embroidery”?! I see.

Sticking plungers to chickens’ butts… you know, for science!

Chickens and other birds are modern relatives of non-avian theropods, a large order of dinosaurs that contains Tyrannosaurus rex, raptors (like Deinonychus), and other primarily bipedal reptilian beasts. They stood mostly on their two rear legs and used massive muscular tails for balance:

They weren’t all big monsters, though. There were also cute little theropods like these guys:

If you need help keeping your dino-groups straight, contrast theropods with sauropods, which include these large, long-necked, four-on-the-floor herbivores:

There’s many more sub-orders of dinosaurs, find out where more of your favorites fall on this Wikipedia page. 

Seeing as chickens and their relative are the closest living thing to theropod dinosaurs, a group of biologists thought they’d be a great model to study how T. rex and friends walked. The only problem is that chickens don’t have the long tails that their dino ancestors carried around.

Solution? Stick one on and film ‘em!

The addition of a plunger-butt tail affected the bird’s center of mass and its gait, as well as where it held its bones during standing and walking. You can read more about the research at io9, or check out the original paper (open access) at PLOS One. 

Previously: Check out a great TED-Ed video about the evolution of feathers in dinosaurs, narrated by Carl Zimmer.

The Infinite Hotel Paradox - One of the best math thought experiments ever devised, by Jeff Dekofsky for TED-Ed.

Luckily, I made an infinite reservation, so I should be just fine. 

BrickBaron nous offre ce week-end l’une des plus belles oeuvres Lego Batman que j’ai pu voir ! Un travail de titan, et un résultat sublime avec une myriade de détails. Je vous laisse savourer cette merveille, pendant ce temps je retourne jouer sur Arkham Origins.

BrickBaron constructed what is probably the most incredible Lego tribute to Batman I have ever seen ! This is a real masterpiece full of incredible details. P¨lease enjoy while I go back home to play Arkham Origins…

Via Toysrevil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

En me promenant sur les merveilleux internets, je suis respectivement tombé sur ces deux séries de photos des tournages de Retour Vers le Futur et Ghostbusters… Et il était hors de question de ne pas les partager avec vous !

Walking around on the Internet, I stumbled upon those delicious shots from the making of Back to the Future and Ghostbusters. How could I not share a few of them with you guys ?

via Uproxx and Hitek and Outatime

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

tanzellanator:

MRI scan of a human subject from the cranium to the feet.

I can’t be the only one that sees prosciutto, right?

Right?

(I’m pretty sure this isn’t an MRI btw. Most likely just stacked cadaver slices.)

Stars In Your Eyes. Wait, Reverse That…

Say, did you know that sea stars can see? Seriously, spots at the tip of their spindly stumps let them sight snacks, silently sneak, and scurry to safety away from sinister assailants.

Christie Wilcox has the scintillating story at Science Sushi.

(Photo of sea star compound eye spot by Dan-Eric Nilsson)