Today in Awesome
Girl Expelled For Science Experiment Has Criminal Charges Dropped, Is Now Going To Space Camp
by Jill Pantozzi | 3:58 pm, May 18th, 2013
Come to a Movie Screening With Us! Really!
Sally Ride Gets Medal of Freedom
Doctor Who Finale Recap
Star Trek Into Darkness Review
Totoro/Howl's Castle Blu-Ray Giveaway!
by Jill Pantozzi | 3:58 pm, May 18th, 2013
by Susana Polo | 9:29 am, May 15th, 2013
Isabella Rosellini’s Green Porno was a wonderful, hilarious series about the various bizarre (at least to us) ways in which the insect and invertebrate kingdom sexually reproduces. But it mostly focused on the “sex” part, and not so much the “reproduction” part. Mammas, the third installment of the series, does nothing but. To watch the rest, which includes the mothering habits of spiders, cuckoos, wasps, and more, you’ll want to visit Sundance.
(via Laughing Squid.)
READ MOREby Jill Pantozzi | 12:33 pm, May 14th, 2013
Angelina Jolie has never been one to sit back and let the world happen around her, so we probably shouldn’t have been surprised when news broke of the actress undergoing a double mastectomy as a preemptive move again breast cancer. That’s just how she rolls.
READ MOREby Susana Polo | 9:27 am, May 14th, 2013
But we can still dream. Part two of Emily Graslie‘s series on De-Extinction can be found below.
READ MOREby Susana Polo | 9:35 am, May 7th, 2013
by Susana Polo | 4:15 pm, May 1st, 2013
Kiera Wilmot is a sixteen-year-old student with good grades and a “perfect” behavior record. Or at least she was. She has been expelled from her Florida school after creating a small chemical reaction that caused no damage or harm, and additionally been arrested and charged with possession and discharge of a weapon on school grounds and discharging a destructive device. According to the Miami New Times, she will be tried as an adult.
READ MOREby Jill Pantozzi | 11:21 am, April 23rd, 2013
Ok, this is just the teaser picture. Hit the jump for the short video of Bill Nye and LeVar Burton being super cool.
READ MOREby Susana Polo | 10:18 am, April 22nd, 2013
Leigh Martin is an artist and knitter who lately has found an outlet for her passions in designing and creating fifty two different species of fungi out of yarn, and then photographing them in their “natural habitat.” She hopes that her work can offer viewers “a greater awareness of their natural surroundings, a sense of how complex every ecosystem is and greater vision for noticing and enjoying these details in their daily life.”
READ MOREby Susana Polo | 2:42 pm, April 18th, 2013
Sex in space (how to do it; what the consequences might be; and whether it’s happened already) isn’t something that most national space agencies are really comfortable putting out press releases on. I mean, except Russia. But that certainly doesn’t mean that people haven’t asked, theorized, and plotted models on it, and with more public interest from private organizations in space exploration since the end of the space shuttle program, and more public interest in Mars following the successful landing of the Curiosity rover, it seems like a good time as any to check in. Lets see what scientists have to say.
READ MOREby Susana Polo | 4:16 pm, April 10th, 2013
In Jurassic Park III (yes, Jurassic Park III, okay, I’ve seen it, and am not ashamed to say that I loved it, though certainly for no reasons that the makers of Jurassic Park III would have preferred*) one of the only smart things the characters do is to find a large abandoned boat, get it running, and sail it to the coast where they can hypothetically meet up with their military rescuers. See, the predators that are after them won’t be able to reach them in the middle of the river, and they can just coast on by all these calm, gentle herbivores in a nice montage of pseudo-John Williams music. The only threat to them on the water is, of course, Spinosaurus, the movie’s omnipotent murder machine with a satellite phone stuck in its guts.
So it’s a good thing, really, that science has come along to prove Jurassic Park III wrong, because there was absolutely nothing terrible about it before this revelation.
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