If you’ve been keeping tabs on the catastrophic (an adjective we’ve been having to use far too often lately) Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, you’ve probably been wondering how exactly you can help. Well, for those of you with furry, four-legged flatmates, it can be as easy as sweeping the floors and collecting [...]
April 19, 2010
He never told a lie, as the story goes. So maybe if he were alive today, President George Washington could tell a New York City library what he did with two books he checked out 221 years ago. The two books — weighty discourses on international relations and parliamentary debates — were checked out on [...]
April 17, 2010
A new Iceland volcano satellite image posted by NASA offers an incredible view of this event. Ash from the Iceland volcano has halted flights across Europe, leading to thousands of commuting headaches across the continent. View more stunning pics at HuffPost.
March 25, 2010
We all know that Mount Everest, at 29,035 feet above sea level, is the highest spot on our planet. Sir Edmound Hillary taught us that, right? Well, yes… that is unless we think about the word “highest” in a different way. Think instead of that point on the planet closest to the moon and the [...]
March 8, 2010
Not every moment of movie genius is written down in the script. Take this collection of ad-libs and off-script moments, for instance… Sometimes, the genius moments of a film weren’t in the script, and happened in an off-the-cuff moment on the shoot itself. Here are 10 examples of when an ad-lib or off-script moment went [...]
February 1, 2010
This ancient text has no known title, no known author, and is written in no known language: what does it say and why does it have many astronomy illustrations? The mysterious book was once bought by an emperor, forgotten on a library shelf, sold for thousands of dollars, and later donated to Yale. Possibly written [...]
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