Awesome Science

Momma always said to cover up your naughty bits, but this Ingredients tee strips away the prudishness and does an elemental breakdown, from 65% oxygen down to trace Radium.

We learned two very important things from the How A Hurricane Is Born video: one, people gotta stop kicking up dirt in Africa, and two, the BBC really knows how to spiff-up science.

“Proof” that we’re screwed: mathematicians have created a model to deal with zombie attacks based on infections, with only one way to survive: kill ’em all, and kill ’em fast. View the PDF.

As seen on Mythbusters: the Pocket Ref, 3rd Edition is a compendium of seemingly inane but useful tips for geeks; it’s 440 pages of info on wiring, carpentry, first aid and more.

Big Bang Briefly is the most important video you’ll watch today, and possibly ever: it explains your existence and that of the entire universe, and all of it in just over two minutes.

Using little more than a sensitive mic, CMU students have created a UI that can sense gestures scratched or tapped onto just about any surface; think desks, walls, and even your pants.

NASA apes Roland Emmerich with this Planetary Smash-Up video; it was created after the Spitzer Telescope recently detected evidence of a collision around a star 100 light-years away.

William Gurstelle’s Absinthe & Flamethrowers is a book that puts the dangerous in DIY: it includes risky, but well-engineered guides that include eating fugu and making your own flamethrower.

It’s not quite a holodeck, but comes close: the U. of Tokyo’s Touchable Holography uses a Provision Holo display, two Wii remotes and ultrasonic waves to simulate tactile sensation.

In the latest sign of the robot apocalypse, Infinite Mario AI is played entirely by an AI at scary fast speeds; technically, it uses an A* search algorithm and information visible on-screen.

Ever wondered how you compare to your countrymen? The NY Times’ American Time Use Chart lets you view by activities (eating, sleeping, TV) and group (gender, age, children).

Sticky Light is a smart laser scanner that uses a laser diode, mirrors and detector to trace contours, enabling you to play games like air hockey and pinball with bare hands. Thanks, Chris!

It may look orchestrated, but Bobby McFerrin is demonstrating how people intuitively sing notes on the pentatonic scale, using little more than his jumping to dictate relative pitch.

Launch your own satellite with the TubeSat Kit; price includes a 0.75 kg module with solar panels and antennas, a ride aboard a NEPTUNE 30 rocket and a few weeks in low earth orbit.

The three little pigs don’t stand a chance: BBC One’s Bang Goes The Theory builds a gas-powered Vortex Cannon (basically an air gun) and pits it against straw, wood and brick facades.

Stunningly beautiful (and perhaps a bit sad for Free Willy fans), Okinawa’s Kuroshio Sea is the world’s second largest aquarium; the video was shot using a Canon 5D Mark II.

Travel need not be trite for educated tourists: The Geek Atlas is a guide to 128 brainy worldwide destinations, including Bletchley Park, Alan Turing’s Memorial and the Trinity Test Site.

HowStuffWorks does a better job explaining how the Galileo Thermometer works than we ever will, but suffice to say, it floats, it looks cool and satisfies even the “densest” of friends.

Slate.com’s “If Man Walked on the Moon Today” is both brilliant and goofy, with a modern Apollo landing filled with polls, pundits, politicians, and most importantly, Twitter.

Designed to address the lack of tactile feedback in touchscreens, CMU researchers are developing inflatable buttons; latex air bubbles hide behind a screen and puff-up on cue.

Fisher’s AG-7 Space Pen is as close to the moon as you’ll get, as it contains Kapton foil used on the Apollo 11 Command module; translation: part of the pen flew around the moon.

For All Mankind, Al Reinert’s 1989 documentary on the Apollo moon landings, comes to Blu-ray 7/14; it’s an HD digital transfer with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, NASA liftoff footage.

If New Age mysticism ever replaced medical science in the emergency room, it’d be a lot like Homoepathic A&E, a goofy skit by UK comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look.