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I could easily rename this series "Things I found on Neil deGrasse Tyson's twitter."

This time it's an amazing interactive animation that shows you the scale of various things in the universe -- from the super duper tiny (the theoretical strings in string theory) to the super duper enormous (the entire universe!) and everything in between. It's absolutely fascinating, and it was created by a 14 year old student and his twin brother! It seriously puts my science fair projects to shame lol... Anyway, you can take a peek here! It's definitely the most informative, fun 15 minutes I've spent online recently.

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Okay, so in last week's star stuff post I mentioned how I always tend to skip over videos on blogs, and I'm pretty sure everyone does too, but please just watch this little 4 minute video, yadda yadda. Well, this one today is one hour and 42 minutes long. I know, I'm asking a lot. But TRUST ME, it is soooo worth watching. And you can actually just listen to it, you don't even need to sit still and watch... hit play, and fold the laundry or make dinner while it plays. I was actually sad when it was all over, I enjoyed it so much!

Now I guess I should add what "it" is, right? It is Stephen Colbert - out of character - interviewing Neil deGrasse Tyson. And it is brilliant, informative and hilarious! Fast forward about 6 minutes to skip over the hosts introducing the event and doing obligatory "thank you's" to everyone who made the event possible ;)

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One of my absolute favorite people to follow on twitter is the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. This tweet alone made him into my top ten. Anyway, a few weeks ago he tweeted a link to a youtube channel called Minute Physics, which features little one minute illustrated science lessons. Like Tyson and my hero Carl Sagan, the channel makes science approachable without dumbing it down. It's fun, but you definitely walk away knowing something you didn't know before. This video here is probably my favorite (it has cats in it, duh.) but I highly recommend clicking over to their channel and watching every video they've uploaded!