Cool Finds

Cool Finds

This Treehouse Has It All

Salvaged fence boards, given new life, help Jay Nelson create dwellings that blend with nature

March 6, 2015

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This Is Next-Level Origami

From dancing cranes to protective structures, origami is popping up in science and tech

March 6, 2015

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St. Barts Is Like the Galapagos for Linguistic Diversity

Beyond the glitz of tourism, St. Barts natives speak in unique varieties of French

March 5, 2015

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Rain Took This Fruit Bat’s Happy Away, a Banana Gave it Back

An Australia-dwelling flying fox needed rescue after rains drove it to search for food

March 5, 2015

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The First Photos of Free-Falling Snowflakes Reveal Their Imperfections

Collisions in mid-air often produce ice crystal aggregates, rather than single symmetrical flakes

March 4, 2015

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Microsoft Billionaire Finds Enormous Sunken Japanese Battleship

Paul Allen used his megayacht to locate the long-lost ship, which has been missing since World War II

March 4, 2015

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A Paralyzed Woman Operated a Flight Simulator Using Only Her Thoughts

Electrodes implanted in the brain are shown to enable those with quadriplegia to achieve amazing feats

March 4, 2015

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Vigilantes in Quito Have A Mission to Correct Graffiti Artists’ Spelling and Grammar

Meaning is important, the group says to explain their illicit copyediting duties

March 3, 2015

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Bet You Didn’t Know About the Earth’s ‘Second Moon’

Even astronomers didn’t realize it was following the Earth until 1997

March 3, 2015

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Amazing Ruins of a Long Lost City Discovered in Honduras

A scientific expedition into the depths of the Honduran rain forest discovered a lost city

March 3, 2015

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Grave Robbers Once Held Charlie Chaplin’s Body For Ransom

Months after his death, thieves stole the actor’s body in hopes of a $600,000 payout; it didn’t turn out as they had hoped

March 2, 2015

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The Fourth Tallest Man-made Structure Isn’t a Building at All

TV towers and power station chimneys are some less well-known record-breakers in the history of super-tall structures

March 2, 2015

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Someone Found Chris Hadfield’s Flight Suit in a Thrift Store

The astronaut isn’t sure how his suit made its way to a Toronto second-hand shop

March 2, 2015

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Victor Hugo Also Created Dramatic Pen and Ink Drawings

The sketches, many done with pen and ink, are almost modern and surreal

February 27, 2015

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The Great Goldfish Swallowing Craze of 1939 Never Really Ended

A Harvard undergrad’s $10 bet set off a sensation among college students that still echoes on the Internet today

February 27, 2015

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This Is How New Words Enter the Vernacular of ASL

Selfie, photobomb and five-second rule all have signs in progress

February 26, 2015

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Watch the Sunset from Mars

Opportunity rover helps capture a hauntingly blue view of nightfall on the Red Planet

February 26, 2015

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Impatient Scientists Used Paint-By-Numbers Technique to Create the First Image From Mars

Scientists used raw data to create their first image of the red planet

February 25, 2015

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Forget the Race to the Moon. These Rovers Will Race on the Moon.

It’s going to be a pretty slow race, however

February 24, 2015

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See Shipping Traffic Move Through Straits Around the World

A visualization shows a week’s worth of vessel movement

February 24, 2015