- A flowchart showing how the Mythbusters shows are made
(via @grantimahara) - Sebastian’s skull oil paintings
- An interesting new cut of the trailer for Emmerich’s 2012 movie (via Wortvogel):
Links and Videos of the Week (2009/27)
- A nice short story by Phil Plait, the “Bad Astronomer”: Deep.
- The first photos from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- I linked the photos of a volcanic eruption, taken from the Spase Shuttle, last week – this week, there’s a video composed of several still images:
- What would a homeopathic emergency room look like? The British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb show it in this sketch (first via Wortvogel):
Links, Images and Videos of the Week (2009/26)
- A volcanic eruption on the Kuril Islands, photographed from the Space Shuttle (via @BadAstronomer):
(Image: NASA Earth Observatory) - More great photos taken from the shuttle at The Big Picture
- Photos of fighter jets breaking the sound barrier (via @grantimahara)
- The Baloney Detection Kit (via Astrodicticum)
https://youtu.be/eUB4j0n2UDU
Video of the Week (2009/25)
The Japanese moon probe Kaguya crashed as planned on the moon’s surface – this video shows the final minute:
(via Stochastic Scribbles)
Links and Video of the Week (2009/24)
- A list of gods that Christians and atheists don’t believe in (via Diax’s Rake)
- A Unified Quantum Theory of the Sexual Interaction
“Warning: while this is maybe kinda sorta NSFW, it is absolutely not safe for math/physics-phobes. This is high-level jokery about low-level topics,” says Phil Plait (=via). - Big pictures of Mercury and the Messenger probe.
- A universal size comparison (via Bad Astronomy):