These Are the Factors That Make You Fall in Love With One Person and Not Another
Gay or straight, single or taken, young or old, there’s one thing we can all agree on: love is tough. When you’re deep in the throes of being ~in love~ with someone, it can feel useless to try to explain why or how you got there. It’s because that person is just perfect for you, duh! But...
Touching Video Shows Italians Singing From Their Windows While on Coronavirus Quarantine
Leave it to the Italian people to find a moment of joy and beauty in what has otherwise been a nightmare for their entire country. Italy is currently on lockdown and it looks like it will be quite a while until life returns to normal again. The country has been hit particularly hard by the...
This Video Shows the Real Size of Asteroids Compared to New York City
Outer space is full of many wonderful things! Other planets, stars, moons, and even cool-looking—but dangerous—asteroids. Everything is just fine as long as these asteroids stay in their place. Astronomers have named certain stand-out asteroids, and animator Alvaro Garcia Montoya decided to animate them and compare them to New York City so we could understand...
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Lack of Paid Sick Leave Exacerbates Flu Season and Coronavirus Fears
Conventional wisdom says that staying home is best whenever you’re sick. Coughs, colds, the flu, and infectious diseases such as the coronavirus aren’t just contagious, they require you to rest. Unfortunately, an estimated 20 million Americans go to work while sick every year because their job doesn’t provide sick days. Other precautions include washing one’s...
Meet the Man Who Put His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator and Survived
If you’re like me, you might only have a vague idea of what a particle accelerator is and what it does. Like me, you probably realize that sticking your head into things you don’t know much about isn’t a good idea. Some people make mistakes. Read on. A particle accelerator, just so we’re all on...
Can Hand Sanitizer Stop the Coronavirus From Spreading?
Have you recently been to a Costco lately? I stopped in the other day to pick up a few household items: paper towels, toilet paper, toothpaste and a few free samples. By the time I reached the back of the store, I realized very quickly that I had no idea what the coronavirus was capable...
SNL’s Heidi Gardner Writes Letters to Nursing Homes in 50 States During Their Coronavirus Lockdown and Inspires Others to Do the Same
We definitely live in interesting times. The coronavirus, aka COVID-19, is sweeping the globe, there’s no vaccine, it’s killing many people with underlying medical conditions, such as the elderly and infirmed, and it’s spreading fast enough to make most of us very, very nervous. One of the worst parts, though, is social distancing. We don’t...