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This Guy Learned Linear Algebra in Ten Days, And You Can Too
At MIT you can take a ton of science classes online. And, in true MIT fashion, someone just did them all at an extraordinary speed
Not Even the Greeks Thought the World Was Flat, But These People Do
There are some people today who claim to still believe that the Earth is flat
What If You Replaced All of New York City’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions with Big Blue Bouncy Balls?
Watch New York City get buried under its own carbon emissions
How To Film a Cheetah Sprinting at 61 Miles Per Hour
National Geographic shows how a team filmed Sarah, the fastest cheetah in the world, sprinting at top speed
Could a Modern Human Beat a Neanderthal in a Fight?
It's hypothetical conflict, but who would emerge the victor?
How To Scrape at a Picasso Without Getting Arrested
The New York Times has an interactive feature showing Picasso's "Woman Ironing" that you can scratch away at to uncover the original pairing - one of a man
A New Tate Online Exhibit Showcases Lost, Stolen and Destroyed Art
The exhibit includes newspaper clippings, photographs and the last known images of each of the featured works
Want to Eat a Triceratops? Try Ripping its Head Off
Recent research has uncovered how the Tyrannosaurus probably ate the Triceratops: head first
Napoleon’s Army May Have Suffered From the Greatest Wardrobe Malfunction in History
Historians still puzzle over Napoleon's catastrophic Russian defeat, but materials scientists think the army's buttons may be to blame
How to Completely Avoid Politics in Social Media
A new chrome extension automatically filters political posts from your social media feeds
The Best Songs That Help Us Learn
Songs have a long history of helping us learn things
Lady Gaga Gets an Entire Genus of Plants Named After Her
The next time you see a little fern out in the wild, it may just be a Gaga
This Stunning Photo of the Milky Way Could Carpet An Entire Apartment
A beautiful, zoomable, nine-gixapixel photo of the central Milky Way
Don’t Let the Ear Mites Bite
The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted this horror-inducing video of ear mites crawling around in some poor 70-year-old man's ear
There’s No Such Thing As Espresso
Espresso is widely misunderstood and hard to define
Will NASA’s Newest Crowdsourcing Gambit End with a Curiosity or a COLBERT?
NASA needs your help naming its new research facility
Even Darwin Could Be a Debbie Downer
A few bouts of angst written by Darwin reveal that no one is immune to the blues
The Best Graphics That Make You Realize You Don’t Know How Big Anything Actually Is
Here are the best scale visualizations out there, starting with the classic Powers of Ten video that melted the faces of everyone alive in 1977
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