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Some swearing at the end so be careful. I don’t know how they did this but it’s amazing.
Make: Online : Holographic head projection music video

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 [...]

Make has a neat video they’ve found about how traffic lights work. Mostly analog, but talking about the solid state version toward the end.
Make: Online : How (analog) traffic lights work

Wow! There seem to be a good number of these kinds of videos popping up lately. This one is a breathtaking view of the known universe to scale. It’s constructed by the Hayden Planetarium. Absolutely amazingly done.
The Known Universe
I’d love to see one of these with human understanding of the universe [...]

This is amazing. I wouldn’t even think about this. I could imagine that I’d fall into both these situations. I can’t really say. Makes me think about how Magicians and maybe con artists probably use the same principles to their advantage.
Change blindness experiment Boing Boing

Some great images of both martian moons. These are the ESA Mars Express.
ESA – Mars Express – Pioneering images of both martian moons – images

Another Hexagon on Saturn. More information and speculation as to what might be causing it to happen.
The Mystery of Saturn’s Massive Hexagon Deepens (VIDEO)

I had seen this video a couple of times, but never stopped to watch it. I’m now sorry that I did. Basically someone has taken and did all the calculations to determine what the view from Earth would look like if we had rings like Saturn. The video shows what they would [...]

That crazy multi-billionaire has done it again. Here’s a great series of space ship two. To further the efforts of Virgin Galactic to promote and make a commodity of commercial and tourist space flight.
In Pictures: ‘Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Debut’ – Monsters and Critics