A Stunning Photo of the Sun Setting Over San Francisco on the Summer Solstice
A photo posted by Chris Messina (@chris) on Jun 20, 2016 at 9:13pm PDT Yesterday our friend Chris Messina shot a stunning photo of the…
A Loving Son Visits His Late Father Through an Accidental Photograph Taken Through Google Maps
In a very touching post that came out just a few days before Father’s Day 2016, educational consultant Bill Frankel opened up about his relationship…
How Airplane Flight Recorders Function to Provide Detailed Information About Crashes
Vox reporter Joss Fong recently took a close look at how airplane flight recorders aka black boxes function to provide details that would otherwise be…
How Charles Dickens Sought to Change the Social Climate and Opinions Through His Prolific Works
In the “Literature” series, the School of Life offers insight into the incredibly prolific Charles Dickens, who used his writing to comment upon social issues…
Strategically Placed Musical Rumble Strips That Play a Song While Driving Up the Road to Mount Fuji
While driving along the highway leading to Mount Fuji in Japan, YouTuber sgtlyxix took note of special rumble strips that had been strategically placed along…
Stephen Colbert Interviews Net Neutrality Expert Tim Wu While Riding a Roller Coaster
Stephen Colbert interviewed Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu on the subject of net neutrality (a term coined by him in 2003) while riding the Nitro…
CatCon LA, A Weekend Event ‘Like Comic-Con But for Cat People’ Returns for a Second Year
CatConLA, the two-day event in Los Angeles, California dedicated to all things feline, is returning for its second year. Taking place on June 24 and…
Tom Scott Visits a Blooming Corpse Flower and Explains Its Unique Smell and Reproductive Strategy
Tom Scott visited the Eden Project in Cornwall, England to get a whiff of a blooming corpse flower and to explain its unique smell and…
Man Calmly Tells a Bear To Get Out of His Dumpster
Upon discovering a wayward bear digging around in his Steamboat Springs, Colorado dumpster, a man very calmly called out “Hey Bear” several times to get…
Pianist Ludovico Einaudi Plays Beautiful Composition While Floating Upon the Arctic Ocean
As a part of their admirable Save the Arctic project to save the marine life of the northeast Atlantic, the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise met…