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“Unschooled” Kids Do Just Fine in College
Children used to self-directed learning and intellectual freedom can handle the strictures of college
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Meet Dreadnought, Largest Dinosaur In The World
Dreadnought is the largest dinosaur in the world to be scientifically described
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Home-Cooked Meals Are a Burden on Women
Cash- and time-strapped moms often feel pressured to cook meals for unappreciative kids and men
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Lego Is the Biggest Toy Company in the World
Lego overtook Mattel this year to become the world’s most-profitable toy company
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Contribute to an Asteroid Time Capsule
NASA wants to know what your predictions are for the future of Solar System exploration
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Nine Different Households, Surrounded by a Week’s Worth Garbage
Photographer Gregg Segal wanted to highlight the problems of waste, pollution and overconsumption
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Restoration Of Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid May Be Harming it
Efforts to save the Pyramid of Djoser could be making things worse
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More Evidence That Arctic Warming Is Behind the Weak Polar Vortex
Scientists lay out how melting sea ice may destabilize the Arctic atmospheric circulation
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This Project Wants to Compost People After They Die
A Seattle-based designer aims to introduce a sustainable way of disposing of bodies
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Some Cell Phone Towers Don’t Just Relay Your Call, They Listen In
The surprisingly affordable way to spy on someone’s phone
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The Brain Will Go to Amazing, Sometimes Scary Lengths to Preserve Its Self-Constructed Narrative
Your life narrative gives meaning to chaos
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Dry Grass Hints That Stonehenge Was Once a Whole Circle
Researchers find new evidence about the shape of Stonehenge
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Flowering Plants Appeared in Forest Canopies Just a Few Million Years After Dinosaurs Went Extinct
A new study gives scientists some more insight into the weird history of flowering plants
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Extreme Drought in New Mexico Cost a 650-Year-Old Tree Its Life
The 7-foot-tall douglas fir named Yoda managed to weather many a drought over the centuries, but not this last one
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Action Movies Encourage Charged-Up Viewers to Overeat
People watching action flicks ate nearly twice as much as those viewing a talk show
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Icelandic Volcano Is Erupting Spectacularly (And Relatively Quietly)
The eruption, currently spewing lava fountains, could go on for a year
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Radioactive Boars Are Roaming Around Germany
The boar’s meat is too contaminated from Chernobyl’s radiation to be fit for human consumption
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At “Slaves’ Hill,” Some Workers Ate Better Than Others
New research suggests that the workers at copper mines in the Levant were valued workers, not slaves
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The Surprisingly Complicated Reason Why Stars Look Like They Have Points
Stars are star-shaped because of imperfection in our eyes
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A Lost Chapter From Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Was Just Released
The chapter was removed after being deemed “too wild” and subversive
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