People Shared Their Incredible Photos From The Final Solar Eclipse of the Decade
On December 26, photographers and residents of places form Saudi Arabia to Guam scrambled to take pictures of the final solar eclipse to grace the Earth this decade. Unlike in some eclipses, you’ll notice that the moon didn’t totally black out the sun. Instead, it covered the majority of the sun, leaving a visible “ring.”...
Why Your Phone Struggles for Service on Airport Tarmacs
Whether you have just boarded your flight or just landed at your destination, one things is for sure: Your cell phone service sucks. Unfortunately for passengers sending a “taking off” or “just landed” text from the airport tarmac, the message never seems to reach its destination in a timely fashion. From a logical perspective, perhaps...
14 Fascinating Scientific Experiments That Will Never Happen, Because Ethics
Scientific research contributes so much to the world—from physics to biology, rigorous studies help us understand how things work. But studies also have to pass certain ethical tests in order to be approved. You can’t just conduct an experiment on anything, especially where humans and other living beings are concerned. On AskReddit, users shared what scientific experiments...
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Meet the Mexican Spider with Flesh-Eating Venom
Despite the fact that the perform a very necessary and friendly service, spiders aren’t exactly beloved by the masses. They eat bugs we don’t like – especially mosquitoes, things that sting, and destructive little turds that eat up our gardens – but for some people, even knowing this can’t negate their screeching reaction to anything...
How to Tell the Difference Between Stars and Planets Just by Looking
Telling planets and stars apart seems like it would be difficult – until, that is, you remember that classic lullaby that put us all to sleep. Remember “Twinkle, twinkle little star”? Yep. Stars twinkle, and planets don’t. With the exception of our solar system’s sun, stars are all so far away that astronomers talk about...
A Lengthy Psychological Study Shows That Boomers Are Indeed More Sensitive Than Millennials
Older people like to treat younger generations like they’re soft – as if they get their feelings hurt over small slights and aren’t tough enough to walk uphill both ways to school in the snow – but the data coming out of a very long, thorough psychological study says that’s not at all true. Basically,...
A Dog Owner Died of Sepsis After His Dog Licked Him
I don’t know about you, but I routinely let most dogs I encounter lick me as much as they want. Now, after learning about this story, I can say that maybe I need to back off a little bit… A 63-year-old man in Germany began to feel ill and ultimately died – and the culprit...
