• HEAVILY ARMED SEX CRAZED DOLPHINS on RAMPAGE in Black Sea
  (new ‘best headline ever’ nominee)
• Scientists have gotten one rat brain to ‘talk’ to another using electronic link
• A study has shown that using a handsfree kit while driving can be just as dangerous as being over half the legal alcohol limit. Texting? You’re totally shitfaced.
• Gender differences in education scores persist regardless of gender equality
• A story full of aww: How a newly wed couple found their son in the Subway
• An illuminating article on How Disney bought Lucasfilm — and its plans for ‘Star Wars’
• Great short essay: The many wonders of Christopher Walken
• Scathingly brilliant – An Oscar voter’s brutally honest ballot
• Nice op-ed on design: Why we love beautiful things
• The King Clone is estimated to be the world’s oldest bush, dating around 11,700 years
• Atlas Obscura: The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India
• Vice answers: What do hate groups think of Jennifer Lawrence?
• Your obsessive love or hatred of me means nothing in the grand scheme of geological time by (not) Justin Bieber
• Video: Hitler finds out Google Reader is shutting down
  (Looks like me and Hitler finally agree on something)

Asperatus clouds over Scotland via The Cloud Appreciation Society

• Olympic opening ceremony: Ai Weiwei’s review
• South Korea’s Im Dong Hyun:the ‘blind’ Olympics world record setting archer
• There Are Four Olympic Athletes Without Countries To Represent
• The Greatest Chris Brown Album Review of All Time: ‘No Stars Ever’
• Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists
• Computer confirms: All music sounds the same these days
• Strong evidence that a real name policy would fail to improve comment systems
• The New York Times is Now Supported by Readers, Not Advertisers
• Celebrities and their Unnecessary Public Apologies
• From Forbes: “The porn industry as I knew it is dead. And it appears a new industry has arisen.”
• Heath Ledger’s Joker was probably inspired by Tom Waits (gets an automatic yes from me)
• Where Did John Wayne Get His Walk?
• Ancestry.com Claims Obama Is Descendant of John Punch, First Enslaved African-American
• Mitt Romney follows up insulting London with straight-up racism in Israel
• Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal (warning: very graphic)
• Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology
• Climate change study forces sceptical scientists to change minds
• The 50 Best Socially Awesome/Awkward Penguin Memes

Classic Movies in Miniature Style

• Internet Justice: 4chan Busts Lettuce-Stomping Burger King Employee
• What Google Is
• Shell’s social media campaign goes haywire
• Frisked By California Airport TSA: Man With World’s Largest Penis
• How Emma Sky went from anti-war academic to governor of Kirkuk, one of Iraq’s most volatile regions
• Where are you on the global fat scale?
• The Guinea Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication
• Fears over plan to release GM mosquitoes in Key West
• Free access to British scientific research within two years
• A Vision of Crimes in the Future
• Profiling: Mayor Stubbs, the cat
• Alexander the not so Great: History through Persian eyes
• The Scientific Method: The righteous left-brained storytelling of Breaking Bad
• The Wu-Tang Marketing Plan
• Fifty Shades of Babe: Duke Nukem Reads E. L. James
• What Happened to Bob Ross’ Paintings?
• 28 Sexy Pictures Of Older Actors When They Were Young
• Tumblr site: Am I Beyonce Yet?

Also, this video made using the Source Filmmaker takes one a completely different tone to the usual Team Fortress 2 videos, skipping the humor and instead opting for a more emotional approach that works really well.

• Vast Video Game Collection Sells for $1.2M
• A Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Down
• Why Were CD Boxes So Big in the Early 1990s?
• Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
• Walker Arts Center Validates the First-Ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival
• Discovery of an arsenic-friendly microbe refuted
• Scientists just discovered what makes migration possible
• Tire reefs fail to revive marine life in Florida
• Share it Maybe with Cookie Monster “Call Me Maybe” Parody (yes, I know, I too feel awful)
• The 20 Awesomest Photos of Women & Bacon
• 17 Famous Literary Characters Almost Named Something Else
• 12 Fascinating True Stories About Guest Stars On ‘The Simpsons’

And lastly, a short commercial by Jon Lajoie. If you were completely honest with yourself, you’d realize that you are a terrible person.

Twin Peaks

Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee

Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes

Moses Bridge

David Kracov

Nadav Bagim

Zach Johnsen

mitch Dobrowner

Another amazing aspect of life on Earth. Recommended.

This is a wonderfully captured video of a ‘murmuration’ of starlings in flight and it really captures the natural beauty of their movements, flying and turning in the air, almost like a single living entity.

Two solid write ups on the scientific properties of their flights if you’re interested, they can be found here and here (with video).

Mathematical analysis of flock dynamics show how each starling’s movement is influenced by every other starling, and vice versa. It doesn’t matter how large a flock is, or if two birds are on opposite sides. It’s as if every individual is connected to the same network.