- Artists’ drawings of the planets at Experience the Planets (via Bad Astronomy)
- Cartoon: The evil homeopath (via @astrodicticum)
- Cartoon: When birds twitter
Fly diffraction screen
Photos of Jupiter seen through my fly-screen at a flat angle, causing what seems to be a diffraction grating effect:
Links and Videos of the Week (2009/30)
- 360° panoramas from the moon landings (via Hinterm Mond gleich links)
- Great photos (yet again) from the solar eclipse over Asia at The Big Picture
- Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain about homeopathy, “alternative medicine” etc. (via Astrodicticum simplex):
- Penn & Teller: Bullshit! about the 2012 end-of-the-world crap (3 videos, didn’t embed them here for space reasons)
Links and Video of the Week (2009/28)
- 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):
The black hole
Are my blogging ideas and interest in danger of going down this spiralling black hole these days? Or is it the humid heat? Well, we might never know…