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Pluto May Have a Wandering Heart
smithsonianmag.com - Nola Taylor Redd
Pluto's giant heart sets it apart from all the known planets. Known as Tombaugh Regio, the enormous impact basin filled with ices dominates the …
Johnny Depp
25 Words You Don't Actually Understand Unless You're A "Doctor Who" Fan
BuzzFeed - Anna Menta
Allons-y!
A Children’s Picture-book Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
ribbonfarm.com - Brian Skinner
First of all, don’t panic.I’m going to try in this post to introduce you to quantum field theory, which is probably the deepest and most intimidating …
Here's what would happen if the sun disappeared right now
Business Insider - Jessica Orwig
What would happen if the sun disappeared this very second? The sun is about 333,000 times the mass of Earth and produces the same amount of energy as 100 billion hydrogen bombs every second! Its giant
Science Has Finally Figured Out How to Win Rock-Paper-Scissors
Gizmodo - Ashley Feinberg
Turns out that all you rock-paper-scissors champions who chalk it up to skill over luck may be on to something. Because according to science, there …
What Are Fractals, And Why Should I Care?
Gizmodo - George M. Dallas
Fractal geometry is a field of math born in the 1970s and mainly developed by Benoit Mandelbrot. If you've already heard of fractals, you've probably …
Star
nerdapproved.com - Connor Casey
Latest All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan Addresses Goldberg Rumors Goldberg 22 minutes ago Goldberg The CW Announces 2019 Premiere Dates For …
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Not Everybody Likes Kissing
NPR - Jessie Rack
Not Everybody Likes Kissing The music swells. On-screen, the two main characters' eyes meet. They lean in, and — slowly! — their lips gently press in a romantic kiss. All the teenage girls in the audience
Black Lives Matter
White America: What Is Your Stake in #BlackLivesMatter?
HuffPost - Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Gustavo Gutierrez, the great liberation theologian, once said he was "suspicious of those who are not in the struggle for themselves." Unless and until white Americans recognize that the very forces that
Robin Williams: his 50 funniest quotes
The Telegraph - `Rex Features
Robin Williams, the much-loved Hollywood comedian and actor, died on August 11 2014. As the comic's life is celebrated in the HBO documentary Come Inside My Mind, Martin Chilton picks 50 of his finest
The Walking Dead
Comic Book
nerdapproved.com - Christian Hoffer
Latest 'Pokemon Go' Announces New Mini-Event to Catch Clamperl Pokemon GO 7 minutes ago Pokemon GO DC Releases New Look at Grim Knight Batman Batman 9 …
The psychology behind color
TNW - Jory MacKay
If you squash every scene from the The Matrix into one image you’ll get something that looks like an old fuzzy TV screen. Look a little closer though and you’ll see the entire movie unfold, all without
Albert Einstein
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
space.com - Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum …
A crazy new theory solves 40-year-old mystery about what happens inside of a black hole
Business Insider - Jessica Orwig
What happens once you cross this threshold is a long-standing mystery that the world's leading scientists have been pondering for decades with little headway. Now, a recent paper presented at a conference
Neutrons
A Periodic Table Surprise: The One Element In Stars That Isn't On Earth
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
When it comes to the elements in the periodic table found throughout the Universe, it’s only the first two that originated from the Big Bang: hydrogen and helium. Everything else was formed from stars,
Attack on Titan live-action trailer includes plenty of people-eating nightmare fuel
Polygon - Megan Farokhmanesh
And now, for your daily dose of "Oh no, what is that," and "ew, gross, why," we present to you the latest trailer for the Attack on Titan live-action adaptation. Fair warning: Yes, it is as graphic and
Why do we intuitively believe we have free will?
BBC Future - Tom Stafford
Why do we intuitively believe we have free will? Free will experiments may not explain whether we are in charge of our destinies – but they can nevertheless reveal just how little we know about our own
How Future Historians Might Use Your Tweets
TIME - Jason Steinhauer / The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
This post is in collaboration with The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, which brings together scholars and researchers from around the world to use the Library’s rich collections. The below
Nintendo Just Filed A Patent For A Bizarre New Device
Forbes - Dave Thier
Here’s what we do know: Nintendo is planning on changing things up, and soon. The legendary game developer has been pretty tight-lipped about its new “NX” console along with its “Quality of Life” initiative,
Trials Fusion: Anime Cutscenes and That 'ol Ball & Chain -
IGN - IGN Entertainment
During IGN Plays Live, Daemon and Justin attach a ball and chain to their bike and unlock secret anime cutscenes.
Native Americans
There's a New Theory About Native Americans' Origins
TIME - Tanya Basu
New research is turning a centuries-old hypothesis about Native Americans’ origins on its head. A team of geneticists and anthropologists published an article in Science on Tuesday that traces Native to
Trials Fusion: Conquering the Impossible Stairs -
IGN - IGN Entertainment
We just found what might be the most insane Trials level ever -- on accident!
Stephen Colbert Just Released A Game Called 'Escape From The Man-Sized Cabinet'
Forbes - Erik Kain
Former Colbert Report host and future Late Night host Stephen Colbert has released an online web game called Escape From the Man-Sized Cabinet. In it you play as—you guessed it!—Stephen Colbert. It’s Twine-based
Why is the Scale of the Universe so Freakishly Large?
io9.com - George Dvorsky
Mary Poppins
Here Are the Four Types of Drunks, According to Science
TIME - Alissa Greenberg
You know when you’re out with your friends at a bar, and you’ve all had the same amount to drink, yet one friend is giggling uncontrollably, another is telling a hilarious story to a group of strangers,
Disneyland
How Disney Proved That No Price Was Too High for Fun
TIME - Jennifer Latson
It may or may not be the happiest place on earth, but it’s always been one of the most profitable. Ever since Disneyland opened on this day, July 17, 60 years ago, the theme park has thrilled awestruck
The "Baby Doe" Investigation Showcases Forensic Science at Its Purest
HuffPost - Kevin Sali
The story of "Baby Doe"--the little girl whose body was found along a Boston shoreline in June--has captured the nation's attention. So far, we know virtually nothing about what happened. We don't know

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Pluto May Have a Wandering Heart

25 Words You Don't Actually Understand Unless You're A "Doctor Who" Fan

A Children’s Picture-book Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Here's what would happen if the sun disappeared right now

Science Has Finally Figured Out How to Win Rock-Paper-Scissors

What Are Fractals, And Why Should I Care?

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Not Everybody Likes Kissing

White America: What Is Your Stake in #BlackLivesMatter?

Robin Williams: his 50 funniest quotes

Comic Book

The psychology behind color

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

A crazy new theory solves 40-year-old mystery about what happens inside of a black hole

A Periodic Table Surprise: The One Element In Stars That Isn't On Earth

Attack on Titan live-action trailer includes plenty of people-eating nightmare fuel

Why do we intuitively believe we have free will?

How Future Historians Might Use Your Tweets

Nintendo Just Filed A Patent For A Bizarre New Device

Trials Fusion: Anime Cutscenes and That 'ol Ball & Chain -

There's a New Theory About Native Americans' Origins

Trials Fusion: Conquering the Impossible Stairs -

Stephen Colbert Just Released A Game Called 'Escape From The Man-Sized Cabinet'

Why is the Scale of the Universe so Freakishly Large?

Here Are the Four Types of Drunks, According to Science

How Disney Proved That No Price Was Too High for Fun

The "Baby Doe" Investigation Showcases Forensic Science at Its Purest