The List Universe came out today with a neat list of 10 evolutionary modifications that have made humans… well, human. I find this list fascinating, and I wonder how many of these traits we might share with other intelligent life in the universe, had we encountered such intelligent life?
Goose Bumps
Jacobson’s Organ
Junk DNA
Extra Ear Muscles
Plantaris Muscle
Wisdom [...]
Being a professional storm chaser is such a dream job. The hugely popular movie “Twister” romanticized the profession back in the 90’s, and some people actually make a living out of chasing storms across the country.
Ryan McGinnis takes astonishing photos of storms. Something truly breathtaking. These are copyrighted photos, so I can’t show them here, [...]
New Year’s Eve was a massive blast.
But please clean up your mess when you’re ready to go.
Times Square was littered with 40 tons of trash by Thursday morning.
Global Warming is caused by CO2.
Processing cement takes up much electric power. This power comes from fuel burning. Fuel burning is one of the major sources of CO2 emissions.
What if we could manufacture cement that captures CO2 instead of emitting more CO2? Well, that’s exactly what Calera cement aims to do.
The last minute of 2008 doesn’t have 60 seconds in it… It actually has 61!
So when you countdown your New Year’s Kiss, make sure to count for this extra second in your life.
5
4
3
2
1
!~ 0 ~!
Happy New Year!
In the past few days, seismic energy has been bubbling up underneath Yellowstone National Park.
This might be a good time to pay a visit. But be careful.
This unique undersea creature is called Siphonophorae. Although it appears to be a single organism, it is actually a colony of genetically-identical jelly creatures. Some colonies can reach up to 40 meters in length!
It’s said he’s not a fan of fuel oil. In a month from now, he will be America’s new Energy Secretary. And he’s a Noble Laureate in Physics. Meet Steven Chu:
Ninety bathtub toys were hurled into a drainage hole on the Greenland ice in September - an experiment to see how melt waters find their way to the base of the ice sheet.
It was hoped the ducks would flow along subglacial channels and eventually pop out into the sea. They may still, but nothing has [...]
I came across this mesmerizing article in TIME magazine. Here’s a short teaser:
The young women had survived the car crash, after a fashion. In the five months since parts of her brain had been crushed, she could open her eyes but didn’t respond to sights, sounds or jabs. In the jargon of neurology, she was [...]
