Cool Stuff Friday

Welcome to week two of Cool Stuff Friday.

Sir Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, and Sir Ian McKellan, all in one photograph.
A life-size Dalek, made out of LEGO.
Scientists at Harvard and MIT are one step closer to creating the light saber. “Lukin also suggested that the system might one day even be used to create complex three-dimensional structures – such as crystals – wholly out of light.”
The Curiosity Rover found that Martian soil is about two percent water, by weight, which could be a very good thing for future colonists. (Though there’s also perchlorate in the soil, which is harmful to humans and would need to be dealt with.)
For Banned Books Week, MediaBistro linked to excerpts from the ten most frequently challenged library books in the U.S. (Captain Underpants leads the list.)
28 Cats Having a Way Worse Day Than You. It’s a Buzzfeed page and takes a little while to load, but it made both me and my wife laugh.
I may need to pick up one of these Girl Cooties Warning T-shirts that author Jaime Lee Moyer just put up on Zazzle.
Photos from Socotra Island – About a third of the plant life here exists nowhere else on the planet. It’s described as the most alien-looking place on Earth, though I’m not sure I agree. Maybe the most alien-looking land on Earth. Deep-ocean life can get pretty unusual…