Hooked on History Cold Case. Except I can't focus on medieval scrolls because Xanthe's hot young anthropologist geek boobs are hypnotic. I think I have a girl crush.

Even the archivist woman in Norwich is hypnotised by Xanthe's boobs. And possibly slightly intimidated by them.

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I have learned something today.


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This ThinkGeek shirt via gritsinmisery: WANT. That's just absofuckinglutely perfect:D. Speaking of T-shirts, this Who shirt is also awesome. Mostly because "I DENY THIS REALITY!" sums up everything about the hardcore, obsessive Whovian. Ok, and it's awesome because the Doctor shouted it while being tortured by the Master. Four for the motherfucking win ( Read more... )

In a 21st-century version of the age of discovery, teams of computer scientists, conservationists and scholars are fanning out across the globe in a race to digitize crumbling literary treasures ( Read more... )

No, really.

It doesn't help that one of the uni adverts on that page has a boy who looks like a baby Tom Baker. But why isn't there a picture of the monster thing? I think I saw a glimpse of it somewhere else...

Skienze: Our world may be a giant hologram and the universe is a space Pringle. No, really. Holy fucking shit.

Whoever this fan artist is, they are awesome: Possible Ways For TennantDoc to Cark It, a fucking hilarious cartoon. I LOVE the dynamics in the first pic and the whole thing in general. And I'm glad a certain old enemy is included. The ( Read more... )

People talk about the Large Hadron Collider and the first things that come to your mind are

a) "Ew, let's leave Adric's boner out of this?"

and

b) "OH SHIT, TORCHWOOD ARE GOING TO BE THERE. WE ARE ALL DOOMED."

That is all. Happy apocalypse, everyone!

This particular scientist dude has come up with an approximation of what The Big Bang sounded like.

AWESOME.

Yeah, I'd seen that a few years ago, but I'm not sure if I ever blogged it. It. Is. Awesome.

WARNING for grossness--human cadavers and all that. So eating while surfing is not recommended. I find it... fascinating. I heard about this some years ago and wondered if there was a website... and there are several!

The Visible Human Project for the US National Library set out to map the human body by cutting bodies to one-millimetre slices (or ( Read more... )