Danes in Space?

Go you crazy Danes you!

And here is their homepage with countdowns.

(Just tests so far to see if they can actually send someone into space.)

BIG BANG BIG BOOM by BLU

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

M.I.A - Born Free

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

Hecq Vs Exillion - Spheres Of Fury

Hecq Vs Exillion - Spheres Of Fury from Tim.Chris.Film on Vimeo.

TED: Steve Pinker on violence

1945-1998 by Isao Hashimoto

Alton Ellis - Joy in the Morning

Tim Minchin - The Pope Song (with sing-along!)

Mogwai - Burning teaser 1&2

Mogwai Live Film "Burning" Teaser from Nathanaël Le Scouarnec on Vimeo.

Mogwai "Burning" Teaser #2 - "Batcat" from Nathanaël Le Scouarnec on Vimeo.

Birth of a Spartan by Noam Murro (Promo for Halo: Reach)

Masshysteri - Låt dom hata oss & Hatkärlek

Idiot Box by Lee Citron

Idiot Box from Milkman Films on Vimeo.

Son House & Lightnin Hopkins

Links

io9 on Williams Syndrome

Reality on Williams Syndrome (oh alright, Wikipedia, but it's a lot closer)

Improving humanity with science!

10 Urban Ecosystems Yet another interesting post on io9.

A breakthrough in cryptography The quantum bits gets tricky.

Eyjafjallajökull

Via grinding.be

Fluke - Atom Bomb video

A Few Frames

Black Holes and Spaghettification

Fard by Luis Briceno and David Alapont

Here

Links

The Great Simoleon, a short story by Neal Stephenson

Which lead me to the concept of the Distributed Republic

Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act - Of which I understand less than I should.

io9 writes about slowing down light

Warren Ellis on going into space

The Grand Unified Theory of AI

Ship threatens great barrier reef

The Aral Sea is dying

Death Bear

Olympic Sized Tantrum by Reuben Sutherland and Dan Hayhurst

Olympic Sized Tantrum from Sculpture on Vimeo.

Links

The Mpemba Effect

Alzheimer's Cure?

Short interview with Janelle Monae

How to throw of face-detection tech

Leena - First Lady of the Internet

Music!

Awesome tune.

This is What Every Movie Will Look Like in the Future!

Links

IO9 continues to post more science related things. This time: efficient solar power thanks to the photosynthesis used by leaves.

The World in Statistics - Real Time

What would you do is a group of people thought you were the Messiah?

That guy who drew a spider is at it again.

Article on the Daytova Pass Incident

Short story combined with facts about freezing to death