While you struggle to get up an hour “earlier” this morning, think of all the energy we save with Daylight Saving Time. Except we don’t.
Performance enhancing drugs are considered cheating when athletes do it. Is it any different when they enhance brain power?
A One-Way, One-Person Mission to Mars could be done, but NASA won’t touch it. Some would see it as a suicide mission; many would line up to be the first.
Figuring out just how old the Grand Canyon is has challenged geologists for 150 years. New information from the canyon’s caves puts the figure at 17 million years.
Can animals create art? Only if they intend to create art. You’ll still be impressed by the elephant that paints pictures of elephants.
The Collected Controversies of William F. Buckley. The famous conservative smoked marijuana, hated the Beatles, and worked for the CIA. (via Boing Boing)
Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, high in the Andes mountains in Bolivia. In the rainy season when it is covered with a thin sheet of water, it reflects the sky, making it the world’s largest natural mirror.
The Ten Most Beautiful Bridges in the World. Not the biggest or the newest, these are just attractive in different ways.
Two Impressive Shiny Balls. A beautiful planetarium, L’Hemisfèric in Valencia, Spain and La Géode, a spherical IMAX theater in Paris.
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