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Links and Videos of the Week (2010/37)
- Great photos from the solar system, collected at The Big Picture
- Given the bullshit that some Catholic leaders babble about Hitler and atheism: lots of Hitler quotes, an old election poster “Why is a Catholic obliged to vote for the parliamentary list of Adolf Hitler?”1, the pope speech as Venn diagram2, and those who still agree to the atheist/nazi comparison, please raise your hand3.
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A visualization of putting 1,2,4,… rice corns on a chessboard (via Mathlog)
- Crop circle lunatics at work (via Pharyngula)
» Source of the cropcircled symbol
- via @zoonpolitikon ↺
- via @einGott ↺
- via @_sapereaude_ ↺
Links and Videos of the Week (2010/34)
- Surreal photo manipulation (via pickspack)
- Intelligent Design? Pshaw, boring and stupid. But the Intelligent Gestation Theory’s great!
- A nightly landscape lit only by the milky way
- A great timelapse video with shooting stars (via Bad Astronomy)
- A tornado made of fire (via Bad Astronomy)
(Something was embedded as Flash object here. Not exactly sensible anymore.)
Links and Videos of the Week (2010/29)
- Beautiful and horrible photos of thunderstorms and their damage at The Big Picture
- God hinting at retirement
- A walk across the USA in stop-motion (via Nerdcore)
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Astrophysicist Neil Tyson about UFOs and the argument from ignorance (via Astrodicticum):