The Least Unhealthy Items at Seven Popular Fast Food Joints

Fast food is hardly health food, but when you’re on the road or it’s late at night, sometimes it’s your only option. These are the menu options to look for that will fill you up without filling you out. Read more…

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How An Octogenarian Preserved An Endangered Native American Language

It’s easy to take translations for granted when Google can swap between Albanian and Zulu with the click of a button, but even that tech has real world limitations. Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of 130 different endangered Native American languages in the United States that don’t have any kind of digital—or analog—legacy. Read more…

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A Watch That Puts an Entire Planetarium on Your Wrist

If you’re planning on sticking around for longer—a lot longer—than a standard human lifespan, you’ll need a watch that keeps time on the galactic level. Van Cleef & Arpels’ new Complication Poétique Midnight Planétarium will certainly fit the bill. Instead of hands denoting the hours and minutes, it incorporates six of our solar system’s planets rotating a tiny version of the sun in real time. Read more…        

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Match Heads Igniting at 4,000 FPS Look Like Dying Alien Worlds

It’s usually over in an instant, but when you capture macro footage of a match head igniting at 4, 000 frames per second, suddenly that almost instantaneous event becomes a fascinating look into the science of fire and ignition. And believe it or not, YouTuber UltraSlo had to throw an additional 2, 000 watts of light on this match head to capture this mesmerizing footage—that’s a lot of birthday candles. Read more…        

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Match Heads Igniting at 4,000 FPS Look Like Dying Alien Worlds