Cool Finds
Cow Tipping Never Was And Never Will Be a Thing People Actually Do
Scientists have actually taken the time to investigate the idea, and produced some hard numbers that indicated that cow-tipping "has no leg to stand on"
Japanese Mafia Has Its Own Magazine
Looking to boost morale, the Japanese crime syndicate is putting out a magazine
This Man’s Smell Hallucinations Can Predict the Weather
For one man Parkinson's hallucinations were both horrible and predictive - he smelled an intense skunky oniony smell that got worse when a storm was coming
LEGO Reveals a Female Scientist Minifigure
Just a few weeks ago Barbie released their "Mars Explorer" doll. And today LEGO unleashed their female scientist block figurine
Watch NASA Crash-Test a Helicopter by Dropping It
For tanks and cars safety testing means crashing them into walls. For a military helicopter that means dropping it from 30 feet in the air
Time-Traveling Time Lapse Takes the Same Train Ride in 1953, 1983 And 2013
Three time-lapses were shot on the same stretch of rail over 60 years
Why Do We Cry When We’re Happy?
Your brain can't handle the overflow of emotion
This Photographer Is Documenting the Forgotten Female Faces of Farming
The face of farming is almost always male, but women are the fastest growing farming demographic in the country. This photographer is telling their stories
What Isaac Asimov Thought 2014 Would Look Like
Past predictions about the future oftentimes fail miserably, but many of Isaac Asimov's futuristic visions were pretty accurate
NASA’s 3-D Printer Is Not Like the 3-D Printers You’ve Heard Too Much About
NASA's 3-D printer is the 3-D printer your 3-D printer wishes it could be
Severed Octopus Arms Have a Mind of Their Own
Octopus tentacles still react up to an hour after being severed from their dead owner, and even try to pick up food and feed a phantom mouth
See How Fast ARPANET Spread in Just Eight Years
The internet of today touches the vast majority of the globe—and beyond—but not so long ago the net had a much more modest footprint
Saving the Last of the Great Carousels
The ornate, well made carousels of the past are in danger - degrading, being sold piecemeal and sometimes even for parts
The Housing Bubble’s Latest Victims Are Doomed Desert Tortoises
The Bureau of Land Management funded the center through mandatory fees for housing developers, but money dried up after the housing bubble burst
Drones Could Carry Defibrillators Straight to Heart Attack Victims
For heart attack victims, life expectancy decreases by about 10 percent for every minute that ticks by after an emergency
Boston Children’s Hospital Once Relied on the Opera to Power X-Rays
In the 1880's the Children's Hospital in Boston didn't have electricity, so it couldn't use X-rays. But the nearby Opera House did
This Company Just Added Auto-Pilot to Their Bulldozers
Construction equipment operators have to go through apprenticeships and training to learn to maneuver machines. But one company thinks that's all too hard
Listen to the Pig Music Box Titanic Survivors Played While Waiting for Rescue
This was the song that those on Lifeboat 11 heard while the Titanic sunk
One Million Cockroaches Escaped from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Farm
The greenhouse where rochaes were being raised was destroyed by an unknown vandal - perhaps a neighbor not pleased about millions of cockroaches next door
How Old Are Dumplings?
Were cavemen making them?
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