How Heavy Is the Milky Way?
By combining data from the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has come up with the most accurate estimate yet of our...
How to Know If Your Friend Is Avoiding You or Just Busy
We all know the painful feeling of being ignored. Whether willfully or unintentionally, it’s always annoying when you don’t hear back from your friends. But how...
The Y2K Moment For GPS Systems Is Just a Month Away
Do you know where you’ll be on April 6, 2019? If you heavily rely on GPS, you may not be able to determine where you are...
Garth Greenwell’s Rules for Weathering the Artist’s Life
Over at Lit Hub, Garth Greenwell shares his commencement speech for Bennington College, in which he shares his “seven very opinionated thoughts” on weathering the artist’s...
Definitive Ranking of the 11 Most Popular Bagel Flavors, From Worst to Best
Having spent a huge chunk of my upbringing in New York, you better believe I consumed bagels the way people in L.A. inhale kale. The cliché is...
The 10 Best Deals of March 7, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Read more… Source : The 10...
What Is This Snail Doing? A Gizmodo Investigation
On Thursday, I clicked on a link that promised to show me a snail “playing” with a baby carrot. The video was nice, but I wanted...
The summoning circle meme calls upon your deepest, darkest desires
If you could request anyone and anything, what would it be? The new “summoning circle” meme has Twitter users requesting everything, from not being depressed to...
Physicists Hunt for Secret to Detangling Hair
A team of scientists are using their training in physics to solve some real-world problems—like the optimal strategy for detangling long hair. Read more… Source :...
Facebook Decides Anti-Vax Conspiracies Aren’t Part of the Business Model Anymore
Facebook, the very open platform that would like to be the opposite of that in the near future, announced a big change this week: It will...
