The Poetry of Reality is John Boswell’s fifth installment in the Symphony of Science series. The video features 12 scientists and science enthusiasts, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Myers, promoting science through words of […]
You try and come up with a better headline. My first thought is that this looks like something out of a Futurama episode. The only way it would be any cooler is if they had used the cast of Star Trek as heads. (via Neatorama)
Stanford University students Derrick Davis and Tom McFadden rap about how the human body converts food into energy. Enjoy! [Via Make]
Since I don’t speak German, I can only guess about what’s going on here, but I’m pretty sure that each and every one of you, at one point or another in your childhood, imagined yourself in a similar situation. [Via Neatorama]
For those of you who are fans of geeky cakes, check out this absolutely amazing Jabba the Hutt cake made especially for Flickr user icruise_flickr’s birthday. This is my birthday cake this year — Jabba the Hutt. A friend of the family kindly made this for us and I think she did a fantastic job […]
Produced by the folks at RealtimeUK, the following animation was first made in 3dsmax and then rendered in Vray. Lastly, post-production visuals were added via After Effects. Let’s just say that the end result is quite stunning, to say the least. Check it out:
An article at NewScientist tells of the deadly effects of traveling at or near light speed, citing a presentation by William A. Edelstein, Ph.D, a professor of radiology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (“I’m a doctor, not a physicist!”). He uses Einstein’s special theory of relativity to explain how the human body could not […]
A portrait of the Na’vi people of Hometree Wisconsin.