You Can Visit the World’s Oldest Zero at a Temple in India
Indian mathematicians were the first to treat zero as an equal
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Advances in Prosthetic Limbs Brings Back a Sense of Touch
This new prosthetic mimicked rhesus macaques’ sense of touch
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A Giant Oarfish Just Washed Up in California
Every time an oarfish washes up on the beach, the world freaks out. Here’s the most recent one
Ridley Scott Reused Footage From The Shining at the End of Blade Runner
From sets to props to entire sequences, Hollywood is actually really good at recycling
Music Makes Working Out Hurt Less
Music doesn’t solely work by distracting us or syncing our motions up with its encouraging beat
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This Late-Night Reading Group Zipped Through Finnegans Wake in Seven Short Months
A Los Angles-based Finnegans Wake reading group recently buckled down and decided to spare themselves the dozen-year cliff hanger
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Agricultural Pollution Is Threatening America’s National Parks
Gases from heavy fertilizer use are threatening the ecological balance of America’s natural parks
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Dolphins Have Interspecies Hunting Parties
A real life tale of animal BFFs
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Ritual Attacks on People Living With Albinism Go Largely Uninvestigated
Around one in 1,000 people in some African ethnic groups are born with albinism
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This New Burial Technique Turns a Corpse Into a Tiny Pile of Freeze-Dried Fertilizer
In the future wills may include specifications for the type of flower or bush we’d like to fertilize rather than the make of coffin or urn
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Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?
It’s a common scene in medieval marginalia. But what does it mean?
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Newer Movies Are Less Creative
The most creative time in film history was probably the 1960’s
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All Those Pink Products Make Women Take Breast Cancer Less Seriously
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, which means that everywhere you go things are painted pink - which might be a bad thing
Watch Kids From 1962 Try to Build a Flying Bicycle
What kid hasn’t wanted to make their bicycle fly?
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It Might Rain Diamonds on Jupiter
Take some methane, add lightning and massive pressures, and what do you get? Diamond hail
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For a long time, people didn’t believe that children could become depressed, but they certainly can
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Being Around Predators Changes the Shape of This Fish’s Penis
Armadillos have bony plates, stick bugs evolved camouflage, and the Bahamas mosquitofish evolved a bigger penis
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America’s Chinatowns Are Disappearing
For many, Chinatowns are an attraction to a city - and many cities boast about their robust cultural neighborhoods
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Hurricane Phailin Is As Strong as Katrina, Twice as Wide as Sandy And About to Devastate India
India is bracing for what is potentially the strongest hurricane they’ve ever seen
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Hibernating Turtles Are Still Aware of What’s Going on Around Them
Researchers assumed they entered a coma-like condition during winter hibernation, but turtles are paying attention to the things that matter most
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