A short clip from the wonder that is Gummo (1997)

I've recently become a PODCAST addict. My iPod overflows with lectures on Quantum Theory; video talks about religion, evolution and the destruction of tribal cultures; conversations about authors, philosophers and ancient Indian mathematics. The era of…

The thumbnail above is but a tiny portion of an awe inspiring, one Gigapixel image available to view and explore in full at Sky Factory : About 11,000 years ago a star in the constellation of Vela exploded. This bright supernova may have been visible to the…

The Manipulator Photography by Jill Greenberg

With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the [Cassini-Huygens] spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world. This marvelous…

Panique au Village est une animation en stop motion (image par image). C'est l'histoire d'un cheval, d'un cowboy et d'un indien qui passent leur temps à dormir... malgré eux. Il existe en tout 20 épisodes disponibles sur un DVD. Pour en savoir plus, visitez…

Keep clear of the cat if you want baby girls. It sounds like the lamest of old wives' tales, but according to scientists women infected with a common cat parasite give birth to more sons than daughters. The parasite, toxoplasma, infects around 15% of Britons,…

In the past, both big and small entities have graced The Huge Entity front page. Today we will encounter the largest single object in our galactic neighbourhood - Introducing, The Sun : Now I got you slavering at the mouth for masses of hot, fiery gas, try…

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The Excruciatingly Large Forum is ALIVE! Feed it your brain today: • Panspermia: Seeds of Change • Best Science-Fiction Novels • Cultural Semiotics • Co-evolution: shaping them as they shape us? • Request for Nudity • Music Absorbtion • Thinkers Lay Out the…

What's the coolest way to stretch the vageries of conscious perception to their absolute limits? How about the detection of elementary particles so weakly interactive that most can pass straight through the entire planet Earth without a blip? Welcome to the…

This was originally posted to the forum (which is really hotting up by the way). I couldn't help myself but post it again here... Behold the next stage in human evolution, as witnessed in the faster than lightening hands of one Emily Fox: You have to see this…

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In the spirit of maintaining a balanced universe here are some Excruciatingly Small Things - Fractal constellations erupting from the humble Petri-dish... Bacteria , it must be said, are simple, fascinating and make up the vast majority of the Earth's…

The giant spiral disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across or nearly twice the diameter of our Milky Way. The galaxy is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. Approximately 100 billion of these stars alone might be like our Sun in…

The Huge Entity never shies away from the raw, sexual power exhibited by hermaphroditic animalia . And so today, in true excruciating form, I present to you: Penis-Fencing Flatworms There is a high probability that at least one person who reads this has been,…

In the world of TV nature documentaries David Attenborough is the ONLY name that'll make 99% of British people foam at the mouth, guaranteed. And he has a new series on the way, which I will miss. Thankfully though I can always head on over and catch some…

This bemused and amazed me, I hope it does you too... "This object (shown in sketch) was found in 1898 in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt and was later dated as having been created near 200 BCE. As airplanes were unknown in the days when it was found, it was thrown…