• Awesome: European Agency Backs Approval of a Gene Therapy
• The ‘chemputer’ that could print out any drug
• Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math
• The Artist’s Lens: What It Means to See the World With an Eye Toward a Facebook Update
• Silicon Valley Warns That Their Products Are Addictive
• Oldest record in the world: recreated from photographs
• The most polite cease and desist letter ever
• The ‘feasibility’ of gun control in the US
• A man’s penis stolen by thieves in his sleep
• Website: An ermahgerd translator/generator
• Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps
• Pretty visualisation: Prime number patterns
• Chart: Distribution of colours in movie posters between 1914 and 2012
• 30 Awesome Behind The Scenes Photos From Old Movies
• 15 Hacks That Will Make You Life A Whole Lot Easier
• 10 of the Most Doomed Expeditions in History

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.

• YES: Rumored film about Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison rivalry starring Christian Bale and Nicolas Cage!
• Bill Murray Announces Party Crashing Tour Starting In August
• Book ‘pirate’ goes underground after being named by Terry Goodkind
• Reddit Cracked a Mysterious Cipher That Might Be a Viral Marketing Scam
• Scientists Figure Out how Dinosaurs Did it
• World’s heaviest woman sheds 98 lbs with seven-times-a-day sex
• South Caroline Funeral Home Adds a Starbucks (of course)
• Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
• Proving you’re gay to the Turkish army
• Surveyed: Many Wall Street executives says wrongdoing is necessary
• Editorial: The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama
• Supercut: See James Bond Do Vehicles
• North: How a Small Arctic Town Became a Global Epicenter of Climate Science
• Ranked: Disney Princesses From Least To Most Feminist
• 20 Best ‘Arrested Development’ Inside Jokes and Recurring Gags
• Photos: 18 Years Of Friendship

And for your daily freak out, this video demonstrates what one, ONE DROP of Russell’s Viper snake venom can do to blood.

(Kinda graphic, only because of the ‘holy shit! That was from just one drop!’ factor).

Mitch Hurwitz in the writers room of the new Arrested Development via Ron Howard’s twitter

• Researchers Name Language After Colbert
• Carl Sagan’s Reading List
• Hubble Unmasks Dark Matter Rich Galaxies
• A crystal computer that could outlive the universe
• Flowchart: Do you understand the Higgs Boson?
• When Old, Slow and Boring Beats New, Fast and Exciting
• Why We Love Violence in Fiction
• 11 Wonderful Libraries in Africa
• 6 Disorders Caused by the Internet, TV, Magazines and Movies
• Tumblr goodness: Facemath

• 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.

LEGO life-size forest in the Australian outback

• Don’t wipe out the masterpiece! A teacher who makes 25-minute whiteboard artworks in his lunch break
• The Master Race’s Graphic Design Manual
• Here’s What An Animated Font Looks Like
• The Not-So-Perfect Kilogram and Why the Metric System Might Be Screwed
• Dark Matter Filament Found, Says Scientists
• Women Infected with Toxoplasma Gondii Parasite Have Increased Risk of Attempting Suicide
• GQ writer interviews six people on different levels of income
• San Diego Accidentally Set Off All Its Fourth Of July Fireworks at Once
• Pearl Jam Allows Longtime Fan To Create Setlist For Amsterdam Show
• Forget rap disses, here’s The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults in History

Lastly, this: Super Moonwalking.

Since the announced discovery of the Higgs boson, I’ve been ranting on about it to damn near everyone I come into contact with, on and offline.

Thankfully there’s this video doing the online rounds at the moment that does a much better job of explaining what the search for the Higgs has been all about and incidentally, also involves less crazy eyes and frothing at the mouth.

The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.

• Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy… “We’ve observed a new particle”: leaked video reveals Higgs confirmation
• How the Discovery of the Higgs Boson Could Break Physics
• Complicated Concepts Explained Using Kitchen Items
• The Nicolas Cage Paradox
• Graph: The Recession-Proof Fireworks Industry
• Identifying the “Greatest Threat” that the World Faces
• Horrible Father Abandons Family For New Life in the Philippines – Leaving a son with cancer, daughter with down syndrome (yeah, that’s right)
• Syria’s Torture Centers Revealed
• Infographic: the effects of a sip of soda

Also, legendary entertainer Andy Griffiths died today (aged 86). The internet pays tribute as always, but this mash-up of his sitcom’s theme song and Beyonce is a favourite.

Rare blue ‘night-shining clouds’ pictured at dusk over Edinburgh

• Seinfeld’s Producer: Listen to Your Gut, Then Fight For What it’s Telling You
• When His Project Was Canceled, an Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job
• Higgs week starts with Fermilab updates, strong evidence expected
• Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing
• How Do Glowsticks Glow?
• How To Decide Baking Temperature When a Recipe Doesn’t Mention It
• Why you were just ‘unfriended’ on Facebook
• Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I’m Gay and the internet’s reaction
• With Google Now, Android Puts Apple’s Siri To Shame
• The Oatmeal fights back, snaps photo of cash, sends money to charity
• If Harry Potter was written like a Madeline book
• Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn’t work
• Video/Article: On board a real-life ‘ghost train’

The Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition winners

• Great fun/dumb science video: How powerful is an MRI magnet?
• Scientists develop a spray on battery
• Has the Speediest Pulsar Been Found?
• Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Aren’t Remakes, Sequels or Prequels
• Awesome personal account: Intolerable intolerance
• Crazy: Ex-Wall Street banker, may have swallowed poison pill during courtroom conviction for arson

Finally, along with this Phil Plait write up (bookmark him!) is this really cool video from NASA detailing the recent observations of a giant planet 63 light years from Earth orbiting only 4 million kilometers from its sun. So close is this, that its atmosphere is being boiled and blasted away, streaming a tail of gas ‘behind’ it.

Fuck do I love the crazy/cool things out there for us to keep discovering. Keep it up Universe.