Bumblebees Are Dying Out Because They’re Too Fat to MateThe Atlantic - J. Weston PhippenBefore the 1990s, the rusty-patched bumblebee could be found in 28 states throughout the Midwest and the New England region. Then, it vanished mysteriously. Within a few decades, 90 percent of rusty-patched
Flipboard’s Quest To Save Online Publishing—And ItselfFast Company - Sean CaptainWith Flipboard 4.0, Mike and Marci McCue grapple with an alt-fact, ad-saturated internet using a mix of mobile tech, AI, and print-era publishing aesthetics. The iPad was a futuristic gadget when it debuted
Your Brain Has A 'Physics Engine' And Scientists Have Located Ithuffingtonpost.com - Bahar Gholipour If you’ve never been particularly good at physics in school, it might make you feel better to know that at the very least, your brain comes with a …
Stem-Cell Dental Implants Grow New Teeth in Your Mouthhealthyfoodhouse.com Recently, the Journal of Dental Research published a study according to which a new tissue regeneration technique may help in regrowing pearly white …
This 124-Year-Old Patent Reveals The Right Way To Use Toilet Paperhuffingtonpost.com - HuffPost The eternal debate over bathroom conventions seems to have actually been answered more than a century ago. According to an 1891 patent by New York …
Design Why The Car Industry Needs To Rethink The Dashboard User Interface DesignTechCrunch - Cobie EverdellWhile at the San Francisco Auto Show last year, I wondered why car dashboards were so wrong? Every car — regardless of category or price — had the same mess of dials, buttons, lights and screens surrounding
This map shows the US really has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely different culturesBusiness Insider - Matthew SpeiserIn his fourth book, " American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America," award-winning author Colin Woodard identifies 11 distinct cultures that have historically divided
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Europeans' Ancient Origins Revealed, And Findings Show They Were Lactose Intolerant For Longer Than We Thoughthngn.com - Headlines Global News Researchers have long debated the origins of modern European and Central Asian peoples, and new research may finally help answer some of these …
Play button Tiny robotic scallops can swim through blood and eyeball fluid to fix you upEngadget - Mariella MoonFor years now, scientists have been trying to develop microscopic robots that can swim through bodily fluids and repair damaged cells or deliver medicine. Now, scientists from the Max Planck Institute
GDP The surprising way the world is becoming more like it was a thousand years agoThe Washington Post - By Ana SwansonIn at least one respect, the world today looks more like it did in the year 1,000 than in 1950. The map below shows that the global “economic center of gravity” is rapidly shifting east and south, and
Cute I Asked a Neuroscientist Why I Want to Crush Every Cute Animal I SeeVICE - Elfy ScottYou know that feeling when you're holding something adorable and suddenly want to mash its cute little ribcage into its lungs? It's a feeling generally accompanied by a statement like, "Aghck it's just
Game Theory What's fair?: New theory on income inequalityphys.org - Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science The increasing inequality in income and wealth in recent years, together with excessive pay packages of CEOs in the U.S. and abroad, is of growing …
Snapchat Modeling communication mediums.medium.com - Ben Rubin The natural transition of every medium, since the beginning of human communication, is from a necessity to a vehicle for self-expression. The carrier …
Exclusive: News app Circa is seeking a buyerFortune - Dan Primack Mobile news app Circa is seeking a buyer after failing to secure a new round of venture capital funding, Fortune has learned. The San Francisco-based …
Here's Waldo: Computing the optimal search strategy for finding Waldo | Randal S. Olsonrandalolson.com - by As I found myself unexpectedly snowed in this weekend, I decided to take on a weekend project for fun. While searching for something to catch my …
Play buttonMicrowaves Physicists just made the most precise atomic clock everVox - Joseph StrombergPhysicists have built a new atomic clock that is the most precise ever made. It won't gain or lose a full second for 15 billion years. The clock, created by researchers at the National Institute of Standards
What Part of “No, Totally” Don’t You Understand?The New Yorker - Kathryn SchulzNot long ago, I walked into a friend’s kitchen and found her opening one of those evil, impossible-to-breach plastic blister packages with a can opener. This worked, and struck me as brilliant, but I it
Water Don’t stop showering, California. Just lay off the burgers & nuts. — Mediummedium.com - Leslie (Ziegler) Schrock How changing what we eat is key to managing California’s megadrought. By now, you’ve probably heard that California is experiencing a historic …
Play buttonNASA How ion thruster technology will power future NASA missionsEngadget - Steve DentFor its crazy 2020 asteroid capture mission and other projects, NASA is developing next-gen "Hall effect thrusters" to corral an asteroid and put it into the moon's orbit. At the same time, the European
Unpowered exoboot takes some of the hard work out of hikingCNET - by Michelle Starr This lightweight, wearable exoskeleton fits around your foot and ankle and can reduce the amount of energy you expend on walking.
The Brain Altering brain chemistry makes us more sensitive to inequalityFiat Lux - By Thomas Levy, UC BerkeleyWhat if there were a pill that made you more compassionate and more likely to give spare change to someone less fortunate? UC Berkeley scientists have taken a big step in that direction. A new study by
Concept art for NASA space stationsMashable - by Amanda UrenIn the 1970s, NASA held a series of summer schools to explore practical designs for future space colonies. Artists illustrated the concepts. Each approximately the size of a Californian beach town, such
San Francisco Neighborhoods Prone To Liquefaction And Earthquake Induced Landslides (Bedrock vs. Landfill Take Two) | theFrontStepsthefrontsteps.com Back on February 15th, 2008 (yes, theFrontSteps has been around that long) we were asked by a reader if we knew of any good maps showing areas in San …
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SETI Maybe We Really Are Alone In the UniverseTIME - Jeffrey KlugerYou may as well get a lot friendlier with life on Earth—every microbe and mammal, every bird and bug, and especially every human being. Because when it comes to biology, our planet may be the whole show.
This 124-Year-Old Patent Reveals The Right Way To Use Toilet Paperhuffingtonpost.com - HuffPost The eternal debate over bathroom conventions seems to have actually been answered more than a century ago. According to an 1891 patent by New York …
Play buttoniPhone This Box Can Figure Out Your 4-Digit iPhone PasscodePopular Science - Dan MorenLuckily, there's an easy way to make your device more secure If you needed any more incentive to beef up your iPhone's password, here's one: security researchers at MDSec have tracked down a device called
Why Does Hair Change Colour And Turn Grey?iflscience.com - Elise Andrew Most of us find our first “greys” by the time we turn 30, usually at the temples, then later, across the scalp. While many people find the salt and …
