Hooking up an ipod to a squid’s nervous system, scientists observed and recorded the microscopic effects of Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Membrane on the cephalopod’s pigmentation cells. The results are pretty damn funky.
More details can be found here: https://news.backyardbrains.com/2012/08/insane-in-the-chromatophores/ and an explanation of how it works can be found on our TED talk: https://on.ted.com/Gage
This awesome animation by Alex Parker (whose Kepler-11 Sonata video is also excellent) illustrates the 2299 fast-transiting planets discovered to so far by the Kepler mission and their orbits to-scale around a single star.
There’s a wealth of detail in this rendering like colour/temperature correlation and the white rings representing Mercury, Venus and Earth’s orbits and that’s all elaborated on on it’s vimeo page. But all you need to know is this part of the description:
Watching in full screen + HD is recommended, so you can see even the smallest planets!
Planets. 2299 of them. Up there. And all of them were found in a really short period of time, with still so many more out there yet to discovered.
Fuck yeah, you bet I love this science stuff.
Was going to post and comment on this write up’s ‘counter-arguement’ on Curiosity’s cultural investment/benefits, but then this high resolution footage of the rover’s decent phase from the rover’s point-of-view came out and the thinking is simply: Who care? It’s still goddamn amazing enough that we’ve got a friggin’ Tank of Science on another planetary body.
UPDATE: some reddit user has interpolated the original’s images, creating a ‘smoother’ 25 fps version of the original video. Nice.
Moment Factory conceived and created a “pixels rain” for the closing show of Osheaga 2012 with The Black Keys. While the band was performing “Everlasting Light”, hundreds of pixels flew over the crowd. An operation produced in collaboration with Air France.
Eclectic Method’s tribute to one of the hippest dudes of Ever!
The real Mitt Romney stands up and reflects on who he is, what he believes and why he is running for office.
I have absolutely no idea what this is for, but it’s pretty damn impressive whatever it is.