This App Tells You When Satellites Are Watching You
For the paranoid among us, an app that says when you may be being watched
The Youngest Winner of the Booker Prize Also Wrote the Longest Book
Eleanor Catton is 28, and her book The Luminaries is over 800 pages long
Zombie Corals Can Come Back From the Dead
Killed by bleaching, this weird kind of coral can regrow from cryptic tissue
There Are No More Landlines in This Town
Residents, however, are not pleased and demand their landlines to be reinstated
These Scientists Are Trying to Take the Internet Underwater
Have you ever been underwater and thought, “man I really wish I could watch some YouTube videos right now?”
Vote for the Next Inductees Into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
So far, Nirvana is winning the fan vote with 15 percent, followed closely by Kiss at 14.33 percent
Hungry Animals Would Take Down a Zombie Invasion
If large creatures were overwhelmed by the bounty of food available, the microbes and insects would not be
The 4,500-Year-Old City of Mohenjo Daro Is Crumbling, And No One Is Stopping It
The ruins had been preserved for thousands of years, but now they’re fading fast
You Can Visit the World’s Oldest Zero at a Temple in India
Indian mathematicians were the first to treat zero as an equal
Advances in Prosthetic Limbs Brings Back a Sense of Touch
This new prosthetic mimicked rhesus macaques’ sense of touch
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
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
Agricultural Pollution Is Threatening America’s National Parks
Gases from heavy fertilizer use are threatening the ecological balance of America’s natural parks
Dolphins Have Interspecies Hunting Parties
A real life tale of animal BFFs
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
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
Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?
It’s a common scene in medieval marginalia. But what does it mean?
Newer Movies Are Less Creative
The most creative time in film history was probably the 1960’s
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