‘The Poetry of Reality’ is the latest in the Symphony of Science series (other four videos HERE , HERE , HERE and HERE ) and features an all star cast of brainiacs. Including, and virtually limited to: Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Meyers. Well, did you nerdgasm? Yeah me neither. Oh these? I always change my sheets on Thursdays. Symphony of Science Thanks to Paulo, Nemo and Angel M., who all wear labcoats and drink out of beakers.

Some would argue that I actually belong completely off the upper right side of the chart . And those people would be correct. Infographic of the Day: The Brains vs. Beauty Quandry [fastcompany] Thanks to Zach, whose handsomeness and genius can’t even be quantified on a two dimensional graph.

In a feat of extreme-mowing , two men in Cambridge, England used a crane to lift a lawnmower high enough to trim one’s overgrown hedges. Nice, guys, I like the way you think — EXXXTREME!! The operator, who did not want to be named, is now nursing a broken hand, but said it wasn’t a fall from the mower that caused the injury but one off the crane. He admitted it was not the safest method of trimming the hedge, but said it was all done as a bit of a joke. They wanted to film the stunt, put it on the internet and see how many hits it got, but in the end had no video camera. That, my friends, is pathetic. Not only a broken hand BUT NO VIDEO. WTF?! I demand a re-do. But this time with fireworks shooting out the back. Oooh, and bikini girls. Plus more injuries. I suggest fraying the cables and loosening the mower blade. YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE CENTURY! And I want producer credit. High rider trims his hedge [stuff] Thanks to Patrick, who trims his hedge the old fashioned way: with a straight-razor. Yikes!

In a feat of extreme-mowing , two men in Cambridge, England used a crane to lift a lawnmower high enough to trim one’s overgrown hedges. Nice, guys, I like the way you think — EXXXTREME!! The operator, who did not want to be named, is now nursing a broken hand, but said it wasn’t a fall from the mower that caused the injury but one off the crane. He admitted it was not the safest method of trimming the hedge, but said it was all done as a bit of a joke. They wanted to film the stunt, put it on the internet and see how many hits it got, but in the end had no video camera. That, my friends, is pathetic. Not only a broken hand BUT NO VIDEO. WTF?! I demand a re-do. But this time with fireworks shooting out the back. Oooh, and bikini girls. Plus more injuries. I suggest fraying the cables and loosening the mower blade. YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE CENTURY! And I want producer credit. High rider trims his hedge [stuff] Thanks to Patrick, who trims his hedge the old fashioned way: with a straight-razor. Yikes!

Doctor Elena Bodner won this year’s Ig Noble Prize for Public Health with a bra designed to turn into two functional gas masks should the need arise (and why wouldn’t it?). The aim of the awards is to honour achievements that “first make people laugh and then make them think”. The Ig Nobel Prizes were presented to the winners by genuine Nobel laureates. Past winners also returned to take part in the celebrations. They included Kees Moeliker, the discoverer of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, and Dr Francis Fesmire, who devised the digital rectal massage as cure for intractable hiccups. Wow, what an elite group. You’ve got to admit though, a gas mask bra is pretty clever. Granted, not as clever as the gas mask underwear I just invented, but you act like you’ve never seen a guy with worn panties on his face before. THIS IS NORMAL IN JAPAN! Hit the jump for the worthwhile complete list of winners.