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Netflix Has Figured Out The Exact Moment Viewers Get Addicted to a Show
It doesn’t take many episodes
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Humans Have a Unique Death Smell
Figuring out the chemical signature of death could help train dogs that aid law enforcement
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PETA Wants a Selfie-Snapping Monkey to be Granted Copyright to its Photo
PETA Wants a Selfie-Snapping Monkey to be Granted Copyright to its Photo
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How Doughnut-Loving Cops Became a Stereotype
A sugar-sweet symbol for beat cops around the country
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A Man Once Bought Stonehenge for his Wife, and She Was not Pleased
Or at least, so the story goes of a British barrister’s decision to purchase the neolithic site for the equivalent of about $1 million
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Earth’s Gravity Is Reshaping the Moon
Leaving cracks on the surface as it slowly contracts
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A Letter About Darwin’s Belief in God Just Sold for Nearly $200,000
Just 41 words long, it provides a missing link for historians who have long wondered what the naturalist thought about religion
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People Can’t Tell Which of Their Toes Is Being Touched
The piggy that stayed home and the piggy that got roast beef get mixed up the most
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Pope Francis: The World “Still Has Time” to Act on Climate Change
The pontiff spoke strongly about environmental action in an address to President Obama and the American people
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American Kids Are Obsessed With Apples
Apples make up 29 percent of the total fruit eaten by teens and kids in the United States
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Americans Dump Twice as Much Trash as Previously Thought
The Environmental Protection Agency’s 2012 estimate was more than 50 percent off
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Edward Snowden Thinks Alien Transmissions Might Be Hidden by Encryption
To chat with aliens, scientists might have to crack codes
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Crimean Officials Are Suing Putin for Drinking a 240-Year-Old Bottle of Wine
Putin and Berlusconi opened up a world of trouble along with a vintage bottle of booze
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People are Leaving Secret Letters to Fellow Fans in Harry Potter Books
#PotterItForward was designd to warm the hearts of future readers
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This is the First Detailed Public Map of the U.S. Internet Infrastructure
The location of major cables was once a secret, but now researchers hope knowledge of it will spark conversations on how to keep the system safe
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How to Pose Like a 1980s Model
A collection of clips from real videos proves to be silly — and not just due to the fashion of the 1980s
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Mark Twain Was not a fan of the Mona Lisa
“The complexion was bad; in fact it was not even human,” he wrote of Da Vinci’s mysterious smiling lady
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How to Give a Robin an IQ Test
Testing whether individual animals are smarter than others of their species is tricky
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A Brief History of Awareness Ribbons
Emmy Awards attendees sported green ribbons this year. But can ribbons really affect climate change?
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