It’s the late night Friday Quickies! Cocktails down- surf’s up!
- This will be the best thing you read all day. The fantasatic Gavin Aung Than aka Zen Pencils has comic-ized Phil Plait’s “Welcome to Science.” Please share this link with everyone! And even add this to your holiday gift list! {via Surly Amy}
- The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has put out a call for entry for the Stand Up for Science video competition. Help educate young people on how science is funded. {via Elizabeth F.}
- By now you might have read about the lake that turns animals to stone and possibly. more on the photographer Nick Brandt here. But our collective eyebrow is raised on this issue. and it’s likely you’ll be able to read more about this here at the Lab. {via Anne}
- Hex Code Nerdz- I’ve got a free game for you. HEX INVADERS!. {via Beth}
- Unchanged since 1908, the London Underground Roundel has an amazing history.
- The Grossest Advertising Strategy of All Time – targeted ads for women feel the most insecure. {via Beth}
- Here’s a cool academic paper: Novel Wolverine protein contributes to rapid regeneration and heightened cellular replication. {via Elizabeth F.}
- The Art Gallery of Ontario is hosting a retrospective exhibit on David Bowie and it inclues Bowie’s Top 100 Books list. {via Beth}
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Tim Minchin gives a commencement address
{via Victor}
from the page
Tim Minchin, the former UWA arts student described as “sublimely talented, witty, smart and unabashedly offensive” in a musical career that has taken the world by storm, is awarded an honorary doctorate by The University of Western Australia.
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Specially dedicated to “all the great women in my life”, an exceedingly beautiful piece by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
The Most Human Activity
{via CriticalDragon1177}
from the page
“We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching them to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
CREDITS
MUSIC: Move – Jonathan Elias
NARRATION: Neil deGrasse Tyson – Science is in Our DNA, Want Scientifically Literate Children & Be Yourself (BigThink)
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Featured image is an excerpt from the final frame of zenpencils’ adaptatin of Phil Plait’s “Welcome to Science.”
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