Scroll through a Facebook feed any day of the week, and you’re bound to find exhortations to live each day to the fullest, but few of us have gone to the lengths Peter Freuchen did to fulfill that goal. Here’s just a brief taste from Jason Kottke: Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an …

If there’s one thing humans excel at, its wiping out the species we find most tasty, so ecologists are considering tempting our insatiable palates with a dish that’s destroying the ecosystem of the Atlantic: lionfish. Forget the heavy-handed and mighty depressing tone of many an environmental campaign, though, because the approach of Discover Magazine‘s Christie …

Need a little something to get the waterworks going? These fourteen quotes from Winnie the Pooh collected by Huffington Post to honor A.A. Milne’s birth week are the perfect thing to push you over the edge, in a good way, of course, when you really need a cathartic cry. “I think we dream so we …

Diamonds are supposed to be a girl’s best friend. Now, they might also be her mother, father or grandmother. So begins the NPR story about a Swiss company that takes human ashes, exposes them to high heat and high pressure, and converts them to diamonds. Each year, the remains of between 800 and 900 people …

Remember the big hair bands of the ’80s and those skin tight pants? Well, they’re baaaaa-aaack. Meet the Megging, jeggings for men from a Chicago design duo that consists of Adam Freck and Andrew Volt, men who, we assume, have legs cut like statues of the Greek gods of old. Hey, if they were good …

If you’re a parent you’ve probably searched for that one photographer who will capture the essence of your offspring or dragged those little darlings to a photo studio hoping for the best. Russian mother and burgeoning photographer, Elena Shumilova, took a different path, though; she managed to combine her art education from the Moscow Institute …

This specimen’s body length is 1.65 centimeters, and its first leg length is 5.82 centimeters. “It’s unique because it’s intermediate between the more primitive kinds of the araneomorph, or ‘true’ spiders, and the well-known orbweavers that we see around us commonly today,” says says Paul Selden, professor of invertebrate paleontology with the department of geology …

When most of us think of designing some digs for a goldfish or two, it involves rocks, a plant or two and a castle if we’re feeling fancy. Like anything else, though, we should have known that there was a group of people out there, somewhere who took aquarium accents far more seriously, and now …

If cats could design dwellings, they’d look exactly like this (with the addition of a few computer keyboards thrown in for good measure). That’s the idea behind German company Goldtatze‘s amazing cat furniture, which allows for plenty of fun that doesn’t come at the expense of your knick-knack collection. From ceiling bridges to nests tucked far …

If you’ve had the pleasure of paging through the Kama Sutra and have been in a relationship for more than three years, you might be left feeling a little less than satisfied with the old sex life. What with the cost of health care these days, though, and the danger of pulling something you might …

If you went to school with an iconic quad, you probably have many stories to tell of time spent there, only half of which are appropriate to post on the Internet if you ever want to find employment. Business Insider traveled the country in search of the best of the best and came up with …

When the life of a company depends on the goodwill of its customers, the importance of a positive customer service experience can’t be emphasized enough. These days, though, you don’t have to look very far to see how little attention is paid in some quarters to keeping the customer happy. If a litany of personal …