Hi folks! Hope you had a lovely week, and if you like that sort of thing, enjoyed Valentine’s day. Over on This Is What A Scientist Looks Like we posted 26 love letters to science. If you missed it, go check out the Pinterest board and read some of the romantic proclamations made to “Dear Science”. Or actually, stay here for this week’s update, and THEN go look at the Pinterest board…

The Scale of the Universe

Understanding the relative size of atoms to radio waves, or animals to galaxies, can cause a serious case of the mind boggles if one is not careful. But here to help with that is Carl Huang, who made a wonderful visual tool for doing just this. On his site you can slide from sub-atomic particles, through bacteria, plants, planets, constellations, right up to the entire universe. I screen-shotted a couple of examples, but you should definitely have a play around yourself:

Science Nation Army

Have you ever wondered if you could play a White Stripes song on laboratory equipment? Me neither, but students at PLoS’ Inside Knowledge Blog used sounds made equipment in The Blast Lab at Imperial College, London, to put together this fab video:

Want to know more? Head over to Boing Boing.

And Finally…

This makes me smile. A real lot.

Have a lovely weekend!!

Nominate Katie Pratt for a social media award in the Shorty Awards