Author: staff
Molten copper meets an apple [video]
Posted by staff / February 22, 2016Somewhere, out there, a mother is thinking to herself “There are children starving in this world, and this guy is just throwing away a perfectly good apple.”
Excellent point, yet we will assume, for argument’s sake, that this was a worm-ridden, poisoned apple, and he is saving innocent lives by putting it clearly within the category of inedible.
Read More10 fun facts about our solar system’s 9th planet [video]
Posted by staff / February 22, 2016In case you hadn’t heard the news, we just met the new kid in our celestial neighborhood, a massive ninth planet that puts poor Pluto to shame.
Read MoreHitler had a micro-penis and one testicle: Historians say
Posted by staff / February 22, 201625 scientific facts that’ll make your brain hurt [video]
Posted by staff / February 21, 2016The average, well-educated person thinks they have a pretty good grasp of the world as science knows it, yet when you look at the facts from a slightly different perspective, the realizations that await are mind-blowing.
Or at least leave you with the taste of raspberries throughout the Milky Way.
Read MoreRural Australian town taken over by tumbleweed [video]
Posted by staff / February 20, 2016No Old West movie would be complete without a tumbleweed or two blowing down Main Street, but one Australian town is drowning in an ambiance that’s been dubbed “hairy panic.”
Read MoreHow to become a professional photographer [infographic]
Posted by staff / February 19, 2016If your artistic proclivities tend toward photography, have you ever considered going pro?
Take a look at this infographic from wedding photographer Robert Sail, and see if you’re ready to make the next move.
Read MoreLevitating top trapped inside a smoke-filled bubble [video]
Posted by staff / February 17, 2016Because who can’t use a little more magic in their lives?
Read MoreExplorers, now vs then [infographic]
Posted by staff / February 17, 2016Magellan, Marco Polo, Lewis and Clark, all men whose epic journeys fired our imaginations up as kids, but did you ever stop and wonder how very not epic those trips would be today?
Read MoreRidiculously huge Rubik’s Cube is a pain to solve…or move, period [video]
Posted by staff / February 13, 2016It’s always laudable to have a goal, even if it is to make a frustrating classic puzzle even more so by making it a man-size behemoth frustration.
Read MoreWhat are gravitational waves & why are they such a big deal? [video]
Posted by staff / February 12, 2016A cursory explanation of gravitational waves sounds rather batty, all that stuff about time and space bending, measuring it in an L-shaped thingy, and the world of science being super excited.
Read MoreSlow-mo chase ensues when National Geographic explorer interrupts tortoise lovin’ [video]
Posted by staff / February 11, 2016No one appreciates being interrupted during a romantic interlude and that includes these tortoises making noisy love on Assumption Island in the Seychelles.
Read MoreSuperstitions about love, family, & marriage [infographic]
Posted by staff / February 9, 2016He loves me, he loves me not…
Even if a flower can’t read the mind of the one you love, it isn’t the only superstition we persist in holding about affairs of the heart.
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