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Awesome video repost of some weird chemical reactions involving mercury.
Make: Online : Mercury “beating heart” demo video

I’ve stumbled across this great flash animation of the OstFront during WWII. It’s from the Russian perspective and gives an overwhelming amount of detail and interviews into this amazing series of battles.
POBEDITELI %u2014 Soldiers of the Great War

Make has a video where a guy decided to load up his Christmas tree with a bunch of rocket motors, instead of just throwing it out. I’m voting awesome.
Make: Online : Beyond awesome: launching a Christmas tree

This a neat little representation of the evolution of the earth done in sixty seconds. It’s takes a little bit at first to get an idea of what’s going on but once you realize that there is a counter in the lower left, and the voice is speaking the events happening at that time, [...]

Seems that the mission has already found 5 new exoplanets. That’s a pretty good start. I’m sure that there is going to be any number more in the coming months.
Systemic

Phil Plait again has found some good content from around the Internet. This time it’s a video from a YouTube user whom apparently does a good number of pieces on critical thinking. I think that I’m becoming a large fan of injecting science and education into popular culture.
QualiaSoup video: Critical Thinking | Bad [...]