There’s some other stuff in this trailer too, like Sir Anthony Hopkins being an adorable mad scientist and John Malkovich being generally amazing. And Bruce Willis moving and saying things. But the high point is Helen Mirren kicking butt and taking names. I don’t think I need to explain why.

(via: MTV)

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Undergrad biology student Alex Law‘s new blog, Little Girls are Better at Designing Superheroes Than You (or BetterSupes.tumblr.com) is a blog after our own hearts. Law finds photos online of proud little girls dressed as their favorite superheroes, which are sometimes necessarily modified from the original design, and then draws superheroines with uniforms based on their costumes. It’s adorable.

Law notes that this is something he can only do in his spare time in between other projects, so updates will be few and far between. But there’s already more than enough to geek out over.

As someone who has only recently developed the skills for an occasional application of eyeliner and shadow, the mysteries of the mascara wand seem dark and foreboding. Maybe it’s just the flashbacks to being nigh-on attacked with one when some well meaning friends found out I was makeupless an hour before prom, but I can really relate to markmak’s Fury here.

Our ultimate goal is to create a STEM-aligned video game badge for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Creating this badge will get young girls excited in technology and science and let them know that they, too, can have a career in the video game industry. — Amy Allison, vice president at Women in Games International.

The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles and Women in Games International are teaming up to develop requirements for a game developer badge for scouts. The Boy Scouts introduced their badge earlier this year, but the Girl Scouts version seeks to specifically focus on video game development rather than a more general focus on games of all kinds.

(via Ars Technica, image is of the Boy Scouts’ Game Design merit badge.)

The YouTube comments on this video are filled with suggestions that Maryana Naumova‘s form is awful and that if she lifted weights on a flat back “She’d be reduced to <120 lbs.” And, OK, I don’t know anything about weight lifting, so that might be true.

But I do know that the face that guy is making at 3:20 was my face throughout the entire video.

And anyway, 120 lbs? My noodle arms ache just thinking about trying to lift that.

(via: HyperVocal)

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When Maria Toorpakai Wazir was four, she cut her hair, dressed in her brother’s clothes, and took her own clothes into the backyard to burn them. “My father started laughing,” she says, “and said, ‘Here we go, we have a Genghis Khan in the family.’” The rest of her childhood in the Waziristan region of Pakistan was marked by fist fights, which she says is how she made friends. “I am a warrior, I was born a warrior, I will die like a warrior.”

Sounds about right for a girl who dressed as a boy in order to play the sport of squash, becoming the best female player in Pakistan, until Taliban threats forced her to leave the country in order to continue to train.

While the last two videos in this aren’t of a great quality, since this playlist was put together by the creator of the series, I’m going to assume that they were the best available on YouTube. Here’s the entire story of Amethyst as played out over seven weeks during Cartoon Network’s DC Nation, start to finish. I feel like the world is ready for a video game programmer superhero.

I admit it. This video is from 2008. But this is the internet, so all that means is that it’s old enough that lots of you probably haven’t seen it and that those of you who have might be happy to see it again. And if you haven’t seen this, you should see this. I’m sure you will agree that we could all use these helpful, brightly clothed ninjas.

Previously in Sailor Moon

This weekend wasn’t just the Oscars, it was also the first Ultimate Fighting Championship bout to feature two signed female MMA fighters. We’ve reported a bit on the progress of women in the mixed martial arts community to get the kind of billing their male peers get, but last week long-time MMA fan AshleyRose Sullivan offered to cover the fight for us and explain its milestone status.

On February 23^rd, as Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche entered the ring at the sold-out The Honda Center in Anaheim, California, for UFC 157, Joe Rogan announced (over the sound of thousands of screaming fans) that, “This is a gigantic cultural moment!” He was right.

I’m not normally all that impressed by basketball trick shot videos. A lot of the ones I’ve seen have people just chucking the ball in the right direction and hoping for the best. But William Carey University cheerleader Ashlee Arnau seems to have willed that thing into the hoop with her supernatural cheerleading powers. I couldn’t make a free throw or do a flip, never mind both.

(via: BuzzFeed)

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