A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Sleeping
In an upcoming PBS documentary Octopus: Making Contact, a clip was released that shows an octopus sleeping and changing colors. Octopuses (octopi?) typically change color as a way to camouflage themselves into their surroundings—as far as scientists knew. In the video, the octopus floats upside down, asleep and possibly even dreaming. Whatever she’s doing, she’s changing...
Cockroach Infestation? Keep Them Away Using Peppermint Oil
This is going to sound disgusting, but there are cockroaches all of the place where I live. Huge, nasty bugs that move a million miles an hour and (obviously) have no regard for my personal space. I live in North Carolina, and when I first relocated here, I was shocked at how many there were...
Are You Always Starving Before Bed? Try these 7 Nutritionist-Approved Snacks
Dieting, lifestyle change, whatever you want to call it – there is a laundry list of dos and don’ts for losing weight. There’s always a flavor of the month or fad diet, and you would be forgiven for being confused. A lot of diets even contradict each other. Take Atkins: eat fats and protein but...
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Your Daily Cup of Tea Could Contain Billions of Microplastics
Let’s just say this up front: there is no science, as of today, that proves (or disproves) that microplastics are harmful to human beings. As of today is a pretty big qualifier here, though, and most people believe that inhaling, touching, and/or ingesting tiny plastics all day every day can’t be the best thing in...
Scientist Proposes Eating Human Flesh to Combat Climate Change — And It’s Not a Joke
The good news is that scientists are coming up with creative ways to battle the effects of climate change. The bad news is that one of them involves cannibalism. The NY Post reports that a Swedish scientist suggested eating human flesh to combat climate change at a recent summit in Stockholm. Magnus Soderlund of the...
These 17 Pictures of Endangered Animals Have as Many Pixels as There Are Remaining Members of the Species
We’re in the middle of a mass extinction that’s seeing the disappearance of animals and plants from the face of the earth at a frightening pace. It’s strange to think that our children or grandchildren will live in a world where giraffes or white rhinos could cease to exist in the wild – could, perhaps,...
The ‘Blinking White Guy’ Is Using His Meme Stardom to Fight Multiple Sclerosis
We live in a world where some people are instantly recognizable because they’ve become the subject of memes that blow up worldwide. Like the “blinking white guy meme.” You’ve seen this meme a million times, and you’ve seen it used in a million different ways. You know the one: me: *buys stuff*bank account: *deducts the...