In addition to benefiting from excellent feng shui, the family harvests about 15 kilograms of honey each year from their bee housemates , who showed up on the day of a wedding. (more…)
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For twelve years, this family has let bees nest in their living room
As part of the Nicer Tuesdays series, Designer Weirdcore treats viewers to a rare historical overview of his concert visuals for Aphex Twin . (more…)
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Here’s the unusual creative process of Aphex Twin’s anonymous visual artist, Weirdcore
YouTuber Oxalis shared Ryan Deboodt’s gorgeous footage of the world’s largest cave , Vietnam’s Hang Son Doong. (more…)
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Explore the world’s largest cave, including 360-degree video
One of the most hotly-contested fields of genetics revolves around the genetic lineage of ancient Egyptians. A new study of 90 Pre-Ptolemaic, Ptolemaic, and Roman mummies raises as many questions as it answers. (more…)
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Controversy over DNA sequencing of 90 Egyptian mummies
Ridley Scott pauses his iconic in-camera chestburster scene in several places to show the tricks he used to make it so memorable. (more…)
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Ridley Scott unpacks the original Alien chestburster scene
If you’re among the one in four people who sneeze when you move from a dark place into the sunlight, this nifty little explainer from a fellow traveler gives a great overview of causation theories over the millennia. Turns out it is just one transposed letter in the second chromosome that causes the effect. (more…)
The deceptively simple Collatz Conjecture is one of mathematics’ most difficult puzzles. Alex Bellos shows off a cool rendering by Edmund Harris that looks like a beautiful life form from the sea. (more…)
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Mathematical conjecture generates beautiful lifelike form
America’s public education system is failing the citizens of Detroit, where the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund reports that 47% of people in Detroit are illiterate . In nearby suburbs, up to one-third are functionally illiterate. (more…)
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About half of Detroit can’t read
Ned Desmond shares the scary story of how a small site he managed that advertised fishing expeditions ended up with 565,192 scam pages . He also suggests five ways to avoid the same fate. (more…)
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How a fishing guide’s WordPress site became home to half a million fraudulent pages
Frog tongue mechanism has been well-documented, but only recently have scientists started looking at the remarkable combo of tongue softness and frog spit’s chemical makeup . (more…)
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Frog saliva is even stranger than scientists expected