Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008. [Via]

Handfed - Above the Sea. Lovely music video, but possibly NSFW. [Via]

Sick babies denied treatment in DNA row. "Babies with a severe form of epilepsy risk having their diagnosis delayed and their treatment compromised because of a company's patent on a key gene." [Via]

Mumbai under attack. [Via MeFi]

Penguin jumps into boat to escape Killer Whales.

Raindrop Shaped Treetents by Dré Wapenaar.

Apes Helping Apes: Orangutans and Bonobos Make Art for Charity.

Matt Duffin -- Fine Art. [Via]

Victory in Vomit: Mirror's Edge as proprioception hack.

When salamanders invaded the Dinaric Karst: convergence, history, and reinvention of the troglobitic olm.

The Stupidest Exercise Machine You'll Ever See. [Via]

A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS. "A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61." [Via]

Animals Speak Color. "A new exhibition reveals how they acquire the language and use it." [Via]

Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law.

The macabre art of Kris Kuksi.

Forestry Commission scraps Magna Carta right to collect woods from forests. The Forestry Commission of Great Britain is phasing out licences for people to gather firewood from the forests, an almost 800-year-old right which was established in 1217 in the Magna Carta's companion document, the Charter of the Forest (previously on MeFi). [Via]

Foreclosure Epidemics: West Nile Virus Tracks Housing Crisis.

Michael Kenna Photography. [Via]

Creationists declare war over the brain. [Via]

Moving the Earth: a planetary survival guide. [Via]