While disassembling an engine for repair, youtuber nothingheroek had the brilliant idea to use the reference photos taken and use them to create this stop-frame animation.

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.

Collecting from various sources, filmmaker Michael Marantz has edited together this very impressive inspirational and optimistic video. Recommended stuff.

The future excites me so much, that is why I made this video. We need to be inspired by the immense possibilities of the future and work extremely hard to achieve them. We can do it, we just have to commit.

Boasting some really impressive animation and design, this short film strings together a host of sociocultural metaphors; though a bit heavy in some ‘symbolism’ and confounded in ideologies, it’s still very impressive stuff.

Holy crap. RZA has finally made a martial arts film and it looks fucking awesome.

So, following the release of yesterday’s Meet the Pyro short film, comes the beta announcement of Valve’s video/editing tool: The Source Filmmaker.

Fuck. Yes.

• What Radiohead Teaches Us About Musical Innovation
• How to reinforce learning while you sleep
• Scientists Harness Human Power for Electricity
• New Record for the Highest Man Made Temperature: 4 Trillion Degrees Celsius
• Planned TV retelling of Peter Pan based on the Lost Boys 10 years later
• Video: Mock Dora the Explorer Movie Trailer
• Finnish mathematician constructs “world hardest sudoku puzzle” (confirmed to be a goddamnmotherfuckingsonnofabitch)

I honestly can’t stop enjoying this musical of sorts…

by Tomislav Safundžić

Just in time for the weekend. Thanks science.