1950s Science Records For Kids I'm sure some of you monkeys will be magically transported back to your childhood by these recordings from a series of children's albums about topics in science -- Space (naturally), Weather, Energy, and Nature. All the MP3s are directly encoded from the records and include the hiss-and-pop noise that those of us over the age of 25 will immediately recognize. Listen and see if you don't feel a twinge of nostalgia for the simpler days of growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Or, if you're a bit younger than that, you might listen for the influences on contemporary artists like They Might Be Giants, PeeWee Herman, and other retro-obsessed culture.

Date With Disaster As Dwarf Diggles Dick In Dyson.

The Earth as art. Here you can view our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite - and most recently, the Terra Satellite's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). From the USGS. Some really gorgeous images. Like this, and this, and this, and this...

ljudbilden & piloten Lovely hand-drawn stop-motion animation. Minilogue/hitchhikers choice, especially, is just brilliant

Business Funk I and II two excellent mixes of the finest ultra-rare 80s prog-funk from the vaults of various production music libraries, by Datashat more inside

Nearing Zero Well, I thought it was funny! more inside