There’s something magical about bridges. They’re often incredible feats of engineering and design. They’re meant to connect people and places that would otherwise have to exist separately. Crossing a bridge is a singular experience. You’re neither here nor there, but hanging in the middle. You could be suspended over a river, hang in a valley, […]
If you love facts, but don’t have the time to sit around reading encyclopedia volume after encyclopedia volume just so you’ll have something to say that will impress your co-workers at the water cooler, then these one-sentence bits of information are for you. Here’s a bonus fact to get you started: they’re super interesting.
Presenting the five most secret government locations, including a top secret satellite tracking station in Pine Gap Australia, an infamous dead man’s switch buried in Mount Yamantau Russia, the Yulin Naval Base in China and its underground complex hiding the latest nuclear submarines from passing spy satellites, the Porton Down biological and chemical weapons testing […]
The team at periodicvideos.com has made it a point to bring the wonders of chemistry to a wider audience, creating an accompanying video about each element on the periodic table. One of their most recent videos however, crosses the mountainous barrier that separate hard science from pure common sense. Here is the concept: what happens when you dissolve a McDonald’s Cheeseburger […]
For thousands of people in the United States alone, falling asleep and staying asleep is a huge problem. You wouldn’t think that something natural could be so challenging, but the National Institutes of Health estimates that “roughly 30 percent of the general population complains of sleep disruption, and approximately 10 percent have associated symptoms of daytime functional impairment consistent with the diagnosis […]
