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How to Humanely Euthanize a Whale
Leaving a beached whale to its own devices means a drawn out, painful death
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Hollywood Overvalues Older Male Actors And Undervalues Older Women
A female movie star’s salary peaks at age 34, and then drops off the cliff. Men hit their peak earnings at 51, and keep on making money
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Attractive Cyclists Are More Likely to Win Races
Endurance might be correlated with how attractive we find someone, new research suggests
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Did Flowers Take Out The Woolly Mammoth?
Some researchers think that the mighty beasts may have been bested by tiny flowers. Or, more precisely, the lack of them
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People Have Been Saying “Ax” Instead of “Ask” for 1,200 Years
“Ax” for “ask” isn’t wrong, it’s just different
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The Line Between Weirdness And Normalacy Depends Entirely on Your Point of View
In 1956, an anthropologist described Americans as a people with a “pervasive aversion to the natural body”
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A Swarm of Tumbleweed-Like Robots Might Be the Ideal Desert Data Gatherers
The hardy robots can traverse places that would be difficult or very expensive to send human data-gatherers
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This Little Minnow Will Be the First Fish Ever Taken Off the Endangered Species List
Thanks to successful conservation efforts, the Oregon chub has successfully rebounded from near-extinction
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How You Describe a Dream Could Help Determine What Kind of Psychosis You Have
A recent study found dream descriptions could be used ot distinguish between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
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Watch the First Ever NYC Blizzard Caught on Film
Not only is this the first ever film of a blizzard in the Big Apple, it is probably the first ever film of any American blizzard ever
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Wikipedia Wants to Archive Famous People’s Voices
If you have a Wikipedia profile, the Wikipedia Voice Intro Project wants to hear you
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In the Next 40 Years, Heat-Related Deaths Could More Than Double in the U.K.
As the world warms up, the number of heat-related deaths will likely increase across the board
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This Terrifying Parasite Bears an Uncanny Resemblance to the Queen in “Aliens”
Phronima hollow out their prey and ride around in their corpse
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A Tiny Scrap of Paper Offers a Glimpse Into Jane Austen’s Inspiration
The small scrap of paper transcribes part of a sermon, the theme of which Austen later explored in “Mansfield Park”
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Mosquitoes’ Sperm Can Detect Smells
Mosquitoes’ individual sperm have scent-detecting sensors
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When Are We Going to Stop Making Famous People Argue About Evolution?
From the Scopes trial to last night’s Nye/Ham face-off, Americans love pointless creationism debates
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Human Faces Might Only Express Four Basic Emotions
How many faces can you make? Offhand, you might guess ten, or twenty, but researchers now say…it’s really only four
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At Auction: One of the Only Cameras to Ever Make it Back From the Moon
James Irwin’s custom Hasselblad was one of the only cameras to make it back from the Moon… or was it?
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Korea Is Using a Kinect to Monitor Its Border
The Microsoft Kinect is at the center of a lively community that includes hackers, artists and, now, South Korea’s border patrol
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