India’s Taj Mahal Installs Air Purifiers to Defend Against Choking Smog
Air pollution in India has hit record levels, and India’s most iconic and most visited attraction is attempting something to make tourists more comfortable. One of the New Seven Wonders of the World, the Taj Mahal sits in Agra in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, around 130 miles (210 kilometers) south of New Delhi. Approximately eight...
Hear the World’s Loudest Bird, Which Doesn’t Sound Like a Bird at All
Whether you’re someone who finds the chirping of birds soothing, or someone who cringes and thinks of horror films when you hear their twittering communication, there’s one thing we’re all going to agree on – the white bellbird is a rockstar bird who probably arrived here straight from hell. What is a white bellbird? So...
Do Toilets Flush in Opposite Directions in Opposite Hemispheres?
It’s common knowledge that toilets swirl in the opposite direction in opposite directions. But is it actually true? The story holds that, in the Northern Hemisphere, toilets spin counterclockwise. In the Southern Hemisphere, they spin clockwise. This is supposedly due to something called the Coriolis effect, an acceleration caused by the rotation of the Earth...
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Here’s Every State, Ranked by How Miserable Its Winters Are
It looks like it’s going to a loooooong, cold, crazy winter from late 2019 into the early months of 2020. This article ranks all 50 states in terms of how bad, or, let’s just go ahead and say miserable, their winters are. These rankings come from Thrillist and take into account temperatures, weather patterns, how...
Record Cold Temperatures Do Not Mean Climate Change Isn’t Happening
Baby, it’s cold outside! We aren’t even into December yet, but much of the country has already seen frigid temperatures and huge snowstorms this fall. So, predictably, some climate change deniers and skeptics have rushed out (as they are wont to do) and cried from the rooftops that global warming and climate change don’t really...
A Second Woman Pulls Parasitic Eye Worms out of Her Eye, and Doctors Fear It’s Just the Beginning
My husband likes to watch shows like Monsters Inside Me, and let me tell you – I’ve never been as paranoid to climb in a lake or take a hike in the tropics as I am after living with him for six years. And this species of worm that infects human eyes seems like it...
Meet Mojito, the Golden Retriever Puppy Who Emerged a Lovely Shade of…Green
In a twist that seems more worthy of Oz than plain old Earth, a regularly-colored golden retriever has given birth to a green puppy. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4C6INKAE4p/ Just one – the other eight members of the litter were all hued similarly to their parents (and presumably, their parents before them). Little Mojito was born just before Halloween...