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Chris Beckman's short film "oops" stitches together appropriated camera-drop pratfalls from uploaded videos to suggest a network of serendipitous mishap. Video after the jump.

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The music sequencer Isle of Tune is like a simple little city sim game�for a magical land of loopy, tuneful fancy.

Mark Moffet explains how a botfly came to parasitize his skin�and how it escaped�illustrating in the process the extent of his commitment to the cause of biodiversity. Video (not for the squeamish) after the jump.

A breathtaking map proves that even in the Facebook era, the world is far from flat.

Cosmologists are finding circles in the sky�specifically, in the pattern of microwave background radiation, the echo of the Big Bang. Some think they're traces of a time before time; others argue that they're the "bruises" left by collisions with universes other than our own.

We know about Archaeopteryx lithographica thanks to an image-making process found in the Earth's crust.

A quiet and surprising short animation that catches the flickering, secret splendor of a colorblind world.

It's not an ancient computer reverse-engineered in plastic blocks, but this Lego-inspired spoof of Call of Duty: Black Ops is good fun. Video after the jump.

A political stunt threatens science funding with a misleading take on the nature of basic research. It's too bad that we can't send the responsible members of Congress to the corner until they learn to behave.