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While giving a walking tour I spotted this: At first I thought it might be one of those tracts designed to fool sinners but: I plan on keeping this one in my wallet but making 10 more and leaving them … Continue reading →

Compare this to the fact that, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the worldwide human population consumes around 400 million tons of meat and fish every year. The spider’s eating habits can even be … Continue reading →

Nearly every day I visit the webcam for the Lawrence Hall of Science. In the morning it provides a quick look at the coming weather and at night it shows the beauty of where I live.

Explanation: You don’t always see a scene this beautiful when you hike to an ancient volcano — you have to be lucky. When the astrophotographer realized that auroras were visible two-weeks ago, he made a night-time run for the top of the caldera to … Continue reading →

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Explanation: What’s causing those odd rings in supernova 1987A? Thirty years ago, in 1987, the brightest supernova in recent history was seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. At the center of the featured picture is an … Continue reading →

Using Lego bricks, students from Osaka University built a 1:560-scale model of the Nintoku-ryo burial mound. The Osaka University Lego Club members used 3-D computer graphics to faithfully reproduce the moat around, and the slopes of, the giant keyhole-shaped burial … Continue reading →

Unfortunately there is nothing in this video that provides a scale to judge the size of, or distance to, this iceberg. Using the speed of sound (343 mps/1125 fps) and the YouTube counter, it appears to be about 300 meters … Continue reading →

I dare you to click this: https://goo.gl/vtla3j When you’ve recovered from that enjoy these readers’ Photoplasty submissions from Cracked: 29 Pieces Of Good News That Got Choked Out By Trump Stories Source: 29 Pieces Of Good News That Got Choked Out By … Continue reading →

It’s an interesting question, famously posed by the great Philip K Dick. But despite a novel and a movie it is not easily answered. And certainly not with a circle of leather and a web of woven string. Capturing modern dreams calls for … Continue reading →