Cool Finds
How Dangerous Is Hitting Another Human Being With Your Head?
How much damage does head butting really do?
Stop Judging Jack Lew’s ‘Ridiculous’ Signature
Above, you can see signature of Jacob J. Lew, reportedly the top candidate to be the country’s new Treasury secretary. This scribble—a slinky? a bit of fuzz? a doodle of a caterpillar?—may be printed on every single new dollar bill. The signature is causing no shortage of judgment from media outlets like The New York Times [...]
Now Accepting Applications for Mars Colonists
The 2023 move, by the way, is permanent
There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old
Tide’s a Smart Product to Steal Even If You’re Not Addicted to Drugs
It's a criminal strategy that comes with low risks and high rewards.
This Road Glows in the Dark
If you've ever been on a dark country road, you know how hard it can be to see just where the asphalt ends and the rest of the world begins. Well, in the Netherlands, they've proposed a clever solution: glow in the dark road paint
Your Phone Could Make You Into a Thunderstorm Predicting Machine
Some Android phones have barometers, and scientists want to use your observations to predict the weather
Elusive Giant Squid Captured on Film for the First Time
The squid is about 10-feet long and was spotted over half a mile below the ocean surface about 620 miles south of Tokyo
You Can Now Buy Space Shuttle Launch Facilities
Haven't you always wanted to own a launch pad?
Get Ready for the Best Meteor Showers of 2013
The Quadrantid shower is already behind us, and star gazers will have to wait until April (the start of meteor shower season) for the next big show
Blind Baby Rhino Rescued After Bumping Into Trees
The rescued baby is bringing attention to Lewa's efforts to protect its ailing rhino populations that are being picked off by poachers
At Auction: A 1766 Copy of ‘Aristotle’s Masterpiece,’ a Best-Selling Sex Guide Banned in England Until 1961
Banned in England until 1961, a copy of this 17th-century text is going up for auction
How To Make the Best Snowfort Ever
If you're going to win a snow battle, you've got to have a snow fort. Here's how to make the best one
Turn Your Dead Christmas Tree Into Beer
Rather than tossing your tree, turn it into spruce beer
One Family Lived on Mars Time for a Month
While a Martian day is only 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day, the differences quickly add up
There Is a Sculpture on the Moon Commemorating Fallen Astronauts
The crew of Apollo 15 placed a small aluminum sculpture on the moon to memorialize those astronauts had died
Why Do Flowers Smell Good?
Humans have loved flowers for millennia, for both their looks and their scents
Congratulations, You Accidentally Wrote a Book Last Year
People wrote more than 40,000 words on average last year... in email
This Is What a Watery Mars May Have Looked Like
Mars once had a vast ocean. What would that have looked like?
One Small Question About Armstrong’s Giant Leap for Mankind: When Did He Come Up With That Line?
Did Neil Armstrong come up with his now-famous quote long before he landed on the Moon?
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