The Nine Planets Imagined as One
This oil painting by Steve Gildea combines the planets of our solar system (including Pluto but excluding the other dwarf planets) into a single globe, celebrating the variety of the planets.
Autumn leaves transform into origami animals in this magical animation
As autumn comes to a close, the dead leaves are bagged and ready to go. But instead of heading to the landfill, these leaves undertake one final transformation before winter comes.
A webcomic fairytale about a princess who keeps worries in her hair
In Isabelle Melançon short webcomic Knot, a group of wizards is sent to figure out what is wrong with a perpetually sad princess. The humblest among them discovers the cause of the princess's troubles, and comes up with a sweet solution.
The Enterprise tries to save an Orion slave girl in a fan-made episode
The fan-made web series Star Trek Continues is set immediately after the end of the original Star Trek series, following the Enterprise through the rest of its five-year mission. In this episode, the crew encounters a troubled Orion slave girl—but can they rescue her without causing an interstellar incident?
What if velociraptors survived into the Victorian era?
Poor Jane. All she wanted was to marry a virtuous young man. But her mother, treated so poorly by her husband, claims there is no such thing and sabotages all suits for Jane's hand. By eating the suitors.
Crowdfund shark research and a cyberpunk film by Larry Hama
The man who built up GI Joe's mythology in comics has a new story to tell about Homeland Security's Cyber Crime Division. You can also help fund documentaries about women in comics and Batman collaborator Bill Finger—or send your dollars toward research into the feeding habits of sharks.
Here's the first recorded instance of the F-word in English
And it's a monk expressing his displeasure at an abbot. In the margins of a guide to moral conduct. Because of course.
Someone Made A New Portal 2 Campaign... Without Portals
I was poking around for interesting Portal 2 maps to play, and instead found an entire mod that replaces the portal gun with a gun that shoots the blue and orange gel from Portal 2. Even better, it has an entire storyline with a new character.
What would Middle Earth look like from space?
J.R.R. Tolkien's hand-drawn maps of Middle Earth have long fueled readers' imaginations about the land of Hobbits, wizards, and Elves, and a group of fantasy cartographers are imagining what the world's terrain might look like in 3D.
A soldier in an experimental supersuit storms a Nazi research facility
Captain Joseph Colburn is a WWII special field operative who wears a prototype suit that can render its wearer invisible. But when he is sent to investigate a mysterious laboratory on the Polish border, Captain Coburn discovers a dark secret that could alter the course of the war.
Good news! You can't get pregnant via gun bullet!
Today medical journals rarely intentionally publish jokes. How pleasant that in the 1800s they took a more enlightened attitude towards merriment. Sure, it led to a brief period when the public was sure women could get pregnant via bullet, but think of the laughs.
Perils of Lady Gaming
Have your pearls ready to clutch and a couch ready to faint on after you read this scandalous comic!
Artist draws silly new heads for his fellow commuters
Here's a fun game that October Jones plays when he's on the train: 1) Pick another passenger. 2) Choose a fictional character that you think matches the passenger or their attire. 3) Sketch that character's head on a sticky note. 4) Ignore the stares from everyone else as you chuckle to yourself.
The 20 Best #SixWordPaperTitle Tweets
We're not sure how the #SixWordPaperTitle hashtag began, but we know how it will end: in a sea of dry-witted honesty, one that deconstructs the verbose, jargon-y, and overwrought conventions that plague the titles of academic papers with wave after pithy wave of good-natured (and not-so-good-natured) criticism.
Ben McKenzie will play Young Commissioner Gordon in Gotham
Fox's Batman prequel TV series Gotham has officially chosen its lead actor. Ben McKenzie, best known for his roles in Southland and The O.C., has been cast as young James Gordon – before he was Gotham City's Police Commissioner, and before he met Batman.
This creepy font is made of human flesh
French design studio Kerozen has released a fantastically gross typeface inspired by human flesh – and all the wrinkles, hair, moles, pores and oil (and eyeballs?) that come with it.
Saw this on Twitter
And I thought it was awesome, Please Marvel make this happen PLEASE.
Embark on an aerial tour of Antarctica in The Seventh Continent
The Seventh Continent is the perfect 150-second vacation for your brain. Shot by Enrico Sacchetti from a helicopter over Antarctica's Zucchelli Research Station, the video provides a brief but stunning glimpse at the continent's surprisingly diverse geography
The finalists for 2014's Sony World Photography Awards are outstanding
Earlier this week, the World Photography Organisation unveiled the finalists for the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards. The images were selected from 139,544 submissions by photographers in 166 countries (the highest number of entries in the awards' seven-year history), and they are characteristically superb.
Are GOT house-motto puns a thing? Because they definitely should be.
Starting with this gem right here.
