RANDOM WEDNESDAY: Map Projection Featuring Hannah Fry

via Numberphile 

RANDOM WEDNESDAY: The Sleeping Beauty Problem

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RANDOM WEDNESDAY: How to Make Cotton Candy

via BytesizeScience 

RANDOM WEDNESDAY: Reysuka (The Cosplaying Paleontologist) Explains Dinosaurs That Inspired Godzilla

via Reysuka 

RANDOM WEDNESDAY: Modern Nukes: Unimaginable, City-ending Destruction

via Science Time 

R.I.P. Stephen Hawking

Physicist Stephen Hawking passed away at the age of 76.
Obituary: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15555565

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#FavTweets 2017 December Politics

Michael Flynn is the fourth Trump aide to face criminal charges in the probe, but the first to be prosecuted for things that happened after Trump took office. https://t.co/F1rshwVyMn pic.twitter.com/c77ty5qVIL

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 1, 2017

Doug Jones taking off gloves: Just finished speech saying he uses guns for hunting “not prancing around on stage,” said Moore has “never, ever served our state with honor,” and that “men who hurt little girls should go to jail and not the United States Senate.”

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) December 5, 2017

The Silence Breakers are TIME's Person of the Year 2017 #TIMEPOY https://t.co/mLgNTveY9z pic.twitter.com/GBo9z57RVG

— TIME (@TIME) December 6, 2017

Condoleezza Rice: Alabama voters must "reject bigotry, sexism, and intolerance" https://t.co/qnkE0tv1hL pic.twitter.com/CMHn3dCQ0s

— The Hill (@thehill) December 11, 2017

Ex-McConnell aide torches Bannon: Thanks "for showing us how to lose the reddest state in the Union" https://t.co/TAfApkEUPi pic.twitter.com/j8XlRvavRU

— The Hill (@thehill) December 13, 2017

“Those are fairly new train cars, they have been engineered to be crash resistant,” @KrisVanCleave reports of Amtrak #501 that derailed in Washington state this morning https://t.co/2CyKkppdRE pic.twitter.com/9z7E0hOFIk

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 18, 2017

A video capturing an unidentified object flying off the coast of San Diego in 2004 has been released by the US Department of Defense https://t.co/hUOEFTbb3l pic.twitter.com/v15xY6wnTk

— CNN (@CNN) December 19, 2017

#BREAKING: House GOP passes final tax reform bill https://t.co/HhiQV5ma31 pic.twitter.com/Ft2mxTMm5k

— The Hill (@thehill) December 20, 2017

JUST IN: Control of Virginia House to be decided by random drawing Dec. 27 after judge rules race a tie https://t.co/QW9Ak8zo3w pic.twitter.com/MnwFEj31Fm

— The Hill (@thehill) December 21, 2017

I believe if the President fires Mueller, it will be a gross miscalculation. I sense a deep stirring across this nation among people who will not let this pass without their fury being heard - in the streets and at the ballot box.https://t.co/hWLuPDCchM

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) December 21, 2017

Ok this was me @TommyPx3 @levarburton @SpaceX @IridiumComm hoping the aliens were really on their way! pic.twitter.com/UCWXI9G2SI

— Tamela D'Amico (@TamelaDAmico) December 23, 2017

In Puerto Rico,

💡
W
WE
WE N
WE NE
WE NEE
WE NEED
WE NEED P
WE NEED PO
WE NEED POW
WE NEED POWE
WE NEED POWER
🎁

— Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 (@PuertoRicoPUR) December 24, 2017

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what the fuck is happening to your country.

— Anne Wheaton (@AnneWheaton) December 26, 2017

Authorities say an intoxicated Dallas woman on a first date with a prominent Houston trial lawyer caused at least $300,000 in damage to his art collection. https://t.co/jjFL2L9fir #odd

— AP Oddities (@AP_Oddities) December 29, 2017

Elon Musk's Vision of Becoming a Multi-Planetary Species

Elon Musk introduced the BFR, a spacecraft that can be used for intercontinental and interplanetary transportation. His vision sees this rocket capable of not only flying people across the earth in less than an hour, but also transporting people to the red planet, Mars.



via SpaceX

7 Earth-like Plants 40 Light Years Away

https://futurism.com/videos/breaking-news-nasa-discovers-seven-new-planets/

Tired of humans...

... there are places you can escape civilization.



via RealLifeLore

How Close Are We To Star Trek's Warp Drive?

via DNews

MinutePhysics: Where Do Galaxies Come From?

My son got me to watch MinutePhysics, years ago.

MinutePhysics uses a stop-motion whiteboard to illustrate and help viewers easily conceptualize a subject, like physics. This particular video explains the theory of the birth of galaxies.

via MinutePhysics

Black Holes

via Vox

The blue in blue jeans

Blue jeans are a part of American culture.  James Dean wore them and defined cool.  Brooke Shields wore them tight and made them look good.

The indigo color in blue jeans, however, would have not been possible without the help of German chemist Adolf von Baeyer.

Baeyer devised a method to create synthetic indigo dye--the color blue used for blue jeans--which earned him a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905.

Sources: http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/famous-scientists/chemists/adolf-von-baeyer-info.htm; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_dye; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_von_Baeyer

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Atheistic view of science and religion

First of all, I should disclose that I am not atheist nor agnostic. I believe in God, but I also believe in our need to apply science to find answers.

The video below is by Philhellenes, an atheist who presents an argument for science titled "Science saved my soul...from religion." 

You can view more of his videos on his YOUTUBE webpage at http://www.youtube.com/user/philhellenes.



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