Stated Clearly explains science through some great animations.

I particularly enjoy the one on chemical evolution, since I’m a chemistry teacher who enjoys biochemistry and evolution. It explains how fatty acids can form on their own and self assemble into bigger structures. That’s a pretty cool result from a bunch of atoms randomly just doing their thing.

Here’s a video from a guy I’m a fan of, Phil Plait.

Plait writes the Bad Astronomy Blog, which I enjoy.

He is the author of Death From the Skies, which is a super entertaining science book about some potential doomsday scenarios (asteroid collision with earth, gamma ray burst, heat death of the universe, etc). I highly recommend it.

More recently, Plait teamed up with the guys at Crash Course, a fun YouTube channel where you can click on interesting things to learn about. He is doing the Astronomy Crash Course.

All of the videos are pretty interesting, but I found the one on light to be incredibly good.

Here’s what’s in store for our galaxy in 4 billion years:

That neighboring galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy. Today it’s 2.5 million light years away, which is 2 x 10¹⁹ km (no big deal).

The stars in both galaxies are really far apart. That means the stars won’t be collide with each other. BUT, gravity will slingshot lots of the stars all over the places. Some of them will get ejected from their galaxies, and the other ones will get new random orbits.

Because it’s fun, here are some other video simulations of this future galaxy collision:

Look at the object circled in this picture:

Can you see a bit of a blur around it? That’s because it’s not a star… it’s a trillion stars.

This is the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest really big galaxy to our home, the Milky Way.

Here’s what you get when the Hubble Space Telescope points at this little blur to get a REALLY high resolution picture:

That’s a taste of what 1,000,000,000,000 stars looks like.

At 125 million light years away, it’s just down the corner.

The smudge you see in the photo about is just the center of Andromeda. This is what it would look like if it was bright enough to see the whole thing. Even at 2.5 million light years away, this thing is huge  – much bigger than the moon in our night sky.

By the way… our Milky Way will collide with Andromeda in 4 billion years.

A German couple was hiking in a frozen part of the Alps.

They decide to walk a couple hundred yards off the trail, and they find a frozen corpse in the ice.

This corpse is a lot more interesting than you think…

If you’re into visuals, here you go.

This is a RadioLab podcast. I LOVE these guys.

“Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.”

It’s created by Jad Abumrad, who got a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” in 2011. That means they gave him $500,000 and told him to do whatever he wants with the money. Basically, MacArthur Foundation looks for amazing people and says, “You’re doing some incredible stuff, and we’re just curious what you’d do with a whole bunch of money.”

Even though Abumrad is doing this radio show about science, he didn’t go to college to be a science guy. He is a composer who got into the radio business. He does a fantastic job of putting the right sounds and music into these shows to make them especially compelling.

If you have curiosity, you will probably like what you find in RadioLab.

Want to see something very weird and cool?

This guy has a very cool YouTube channel that goes through all kinds of neat science stuff. Feel free to keep clicking on more of his videos!

How would you like to visit these places? Amazing visuals in here.

You want to full screen this thing and turn up the sound.

If you want to know which places you’re looking at, it’s explained here:

http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/gallery.html