It’s Friday, here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

Hubble telescope captures spouting water vapour plumes on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

Celebrities and their Christmas trees: From the gaudy to the plain tacky.

Adorably wacky email goes after gays, pro-woman ‘vaginas,’ Madonna.

Beck Fires Back at TIME’s ‘Progressive Fascism,’ Names Ted Cruz His ‘Man of the Year’.

Yellowstone supervolcano ‘even more colossal’.

I was working on a blog post about this, but this Buzzfeed article hits most of my points much more succinctly: How to Argue with Bigot Apologists About the Colorado Bakery Case.

LOOK: If You’re Going To Spread Hate, At Least Use Your Spellchecker!

Trailer for Sherlock season three:

(If embedding doesn’t work, try this link.)

This cover of “Last Christmas” by xx is completely different than the original, and rather amazing:

(Again, if embedding doesn’t work, click here {even if you hate the original, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised})