Cool Finds
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One Family Lived on Mars Time for a Month
While a Martian day is only 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day, the differences quickly add up
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There Is a Sculpture on the Moon Commemorating Fallen Astronauts
The crew of Apollo 15 placed a small aluminum sculpture on the moon to memorialize those astronauts had died
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Why Do Flowers Smell Good?
Humans have loved flowers for millennia, for both their looks and their scents
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Congratulations, You Accidentally Wrote a Book Last Year
People wrote more than 40,000 words on average last year... in email
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This Is What a Watery Mars May Have Looked Like
Mars once had a vast ocean. What would that have looked like?
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One Small Question About Armstrong’s Giant Leap for Mankind: When Did He Come Up With That Line?
Did Neil Armstrong come up with his now-famous quote long before he landed on the Moon?
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We Used To Actually Set Food on Fire to Figure Out How Many Calories It Had
How do they actually figure out how many calories is in a granola bar
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How to Properly Celebrate a Hobbit Birthday
Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday, and in his honor here's how to throw the best Hobbit Birthday ever
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Hungover? There’s a Cure for That No Matter Where You Live
There are some things that are universal—trade, money, shelter, hangovers
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We’ve Been Celebrating With Booze for 10,000 Years
This ancient social lubricant has been a staple of cultic feasts and gatherings since the dawn of time, archaeological evidence suggests, meaning every time we sip a cold stout or toast with a glass of bubbly, we're taking part in a millennia-old tradition
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Hankie Coated in Beheaded Louis XVI’s Blood Found in Dried Squash
Two centuries after King Louis XVI's execution, researchers think they've found a revolutionary souvenir from that fateful day
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Lichens Do Not Age
One Harvard scientist hopes to find clues to immortality by studying lichens, the frilly, crusty green growths that appear on tombstones and old trees
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The Science of Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
Want to bolster your chances of actually staying true to your New Year's resolution, whatever it may be?
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Introducing the First Search Engine for Math And Science Equations
Symbolab allows users to search for equations using both numbers and symbols as well as text
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Some People Can Tickle Themselves
Just as schizophrenics may hear voices in their heads, they may also experience self-induced phantom tickling
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Love Chicken Nuggets? Thank Cornell Poultry Professor Robert C. Baker
In 1963, this professor of poultry science came up with the first chicken nuggets
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You Know You Want To Snoop Around Marilyn Monroe’s Secret FBI File
Freshly un-redacted FBI files paint Monroe as a bit of a communist
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How to Avoid Getting Scammed on New Year’s Eve Champagne
Tonight, when you pop the bubbly, are you popping champagne or sparkling wine? How should you pour it? How do you drink it?
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What Did Dinosaur Taste Like?
And which would be the most delicious?
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Why Do Rich People Wear Monocles?
Monocles have been the chosen eyewear of our cartoon rich people for a long time now
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