A Beautifully Animated Journey Inside a Redwood Leaf
The In Utero Chaos That Makes Fingerprints So Unique
David Goldenberg of MinuteEarth explains how fingerprints are formed. These singular identifiers first start out as volar pads that form in utero. These pads soon…
Directions to Johnny B. Goode’s Place
“Directions to Johnny B. Goode’s Place” by John Atkinson on Wrong Hands via Naked Music Score, Duck Soup, Nag on the Lake
An Interactive Simulator That Reconstructs Movement of a Prehistoric Reptile Using Reverse Engineering
In a fascinating study, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have reverse engineered the movement of the Orobates pabsti, an extinct prehistoric reptilian creature…
Serial Killer Ted Bundy Opens Up About His Heinous Crimes in the Netflix Series ‘Conversations With a Killer’
The Netflix documentary series Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, offers a peek into the twisted mind of the serial “Campus Killer” Ted…
Two Hamsters Run a Very Clever Maze Created by Their Human With Five Different Levels To Conquer
In November 2018, the human behind the YouTube channel The Secret Life of My Hamster built a very clever maze with five different levels to…
British Children in 1966 Voice Their Concerns Predicting What the World Might Look Like in the Year 2000
In an eerily predictive BBC clip from December 28, 1966, British school children offered their wisdom about what the year 2000 looks like to them.…
Gorgeous 4K Drone Footage of an Unusually Perfect Rotating Circle of Ice That Appeared in a Maine River
Todd McKee, founder of Bulldog Aerials, former associate director at ABC News and licensed drone operator captured gorgeous, high definition overhead footage of an unusually…
An Adopted Woman Tries to Uncover Her Hidden History in the Netflix Series ‘Black Earth Rising’
In the Netflix series Black Earth Rising, a young woman named Kate Ashby (Michaela Coel) who works for lawyer Michael Ennis (John Goodman) approaches her…
Gently Debunking the Old Longfellow Adage That Says ‘Music Is the Universal Language of All Mankind’
In addressing the old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow adage that says that “music is the universal language of all mankind”, the fast talking doodling music theorist…