Bismuth crystals are mesmerizing.

I’m not a rapper, but this is exactly how I feel about the incessant Carly Rae Jeppson “Call Me Maybe” thing.

The main part of your average “bolt” of lightning is the return stroke, i.e. an electrical discharge through an ionized channel of one trillion Watts traveling at 140,000 mph heating the surrounding air three times the temperature of the surface of the sun in less than one one-hundred-thousandth of a second, on average.

And now for something that has nothing to do with anything, a couple of baby platypuses.