It’s Not Just You: Garfield Is Not Meant to Be Funny
Unlike New Yorker cartoons, in which, you are actually missing the joke, Garfield is in fact not even designed to be funny
Why Some People Faint When They See Blood
In an evolutionary throwback, people with a blood phobia first experience a racing heart and then a sudden drop in blood pressure
How Does One Actually Shrink a Head?
How does one take a regular sized human skull and miniaturize it?
After 17 Years, the Northeast Is About to Be Blanketed by a Swarm of Cicadas
An inch and a half long with bright red eyes, the swarm of Brood II cicadas is coming
From the Big Bang to the End of the Earth and Everything in Between, the Two Minute History of America
A fun video by a Minnesota high school student tries to capture all of human history in just two minutes
Should You Trust Nate Silver’s March Madness Bracket?
Everybody’s favorite predictor of the future - Nate Silver - has his own analysis of the tournament over at the New York Times
‘Bone-Eating Zombie Worm’ And Eight Other New Species Live on the First Whale Skeleton Found in Antarctica
The Minke whale skeleton was probably on the seafloor for at least several decades and is only the sixth natural whale carcass ever found
People Can Accurately Read Dogs’ Facial Expressions
Interestingly, people who do not own dogs were a bit better at accurately labeling canine emotions than people who do own dogs
Earthquakes Are Basically Gold Factories
In the cracks between tectonic plates, veins of gold appear
Scientists Build a Phaser, a New Kind of Sound-Laser
A laser that shoots sound, a Star Trek fantasy that’s nearly within reach
The Science of Internet Virality: Awe and Joy All the Way Down
Cats and babies and corgis? Or something more.
Ecotourists Have Changed Stingrays’ Behavior—And Not for the Better
There might be a dark side to the so-called “interactive ecotourism” business
This New Search Engine Helps Doctors Diagnose Rare, Obscure Diseases
A quarter of rare diseases normally take between 5 to 30 years to diagnose; this tool hopes to streamline that process
Hundreds of Emaciated Stranded Sea Lion Pups Are Washing Ashore in California
No one knows what is causing the unprecedented strandings, and the number of pups in need of help is only increasing
After Twenty-Three Years, FBI Says It Finally Knows Who’s Responsible for the Largest Unsolved Art Heist Ever
Twenty three years ago today, thieves pulled off one of the greatest art heists in history - and the FBI might have just finally caught them
Would You Give up an Ovary for the Ability to Fly? Birds Might Have
For the ability to fly, birds might have ditched on of their ovaries to cut down on their weight
Nixon Prolonged Vietnam War for Political Gain—And Johnson Knew About It, Newly Unclassified Tapes Suggest
Nixon ran on a platform that opposed the Vietnam war, but to win the election, he needed the war to continue
This Mountain Is What Curiosity’s Whole Mission Is About
Since August, Curiosity has been inching toward Mars’ Mount Sharp
Are Birds Evolving to Avoid Cars?
New research suggests that perhaps, for some animals, evolution might be kicking in and helping birds adapt to avoid cars
Most Internet Spam Comes From Just a Handful of ‘Bad Neighborhoods’
The majority of the spam in the internet comes from just a couple of bad neighborhoods
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