10 Fascinating Facts About Color
It’s in everything we touch, taste, smell, and feel. It evokes emotion without asking for prior thought. It can be the focus of our...
The Mysterious Ice Rings of Siberia’s Lake Baikal — Solved?
Siberia’s Lake Baikal holds a number of world records for lakes – oldest lake, deepest, largest freshwater lake by volume, and subjectively, the world’s...
Skunk can think creatively
Representatives of skunks (Mephitidae) could create paintings or write brilliant books. At least for the reason that their abstract thinking is no worse developed...
Parapsychology
What turns a mere piece of matter from being mere matter into an animated being? What gives certain special physical patterns in the universe...
Kailasa Temple
Ajanta and nearby Ellora are two of the most amazing archaeological sites in India. Although handcrafted caves are scattered throughout India's western state of...
10 Bizarre Mythological Creatures
There are many well known examples of creatures from mythology that inspire dread, awe, curiosity or a even a combo of all three. Many...
Early Cambrian Chengjiang China Fossils – “A Window to the Cambrian...
The Chengjiang lagerstatte in the Yunning Province of China, also known as the Chengjiang Biota or the Maotianshan shales, is an extraordinary fossil site...
Earth Recently Devoured One of its Own Mini
We learned in the Austin Powers movies of the benefits of having a Mini-Me. While the Moon may have once been a part of...
Gosford Hieroglyphs – Our first examination of the Glyphs
Anubis - Ancient Egyptian god of death and the dead.
Many people believe that Australia in the distant past was visited by ancient explorers i.e....
Tunguska meteorite
Italian scientists from the University of Bologna have investigated the consequences of the explosion of the Tunguska meteorite several times. They hypothesized that the...
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a megalithic monument on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England, composed mainly of thirty upright stones (sarsens, each over ten feet tall...
What Is A Meteor Shower?
A meteor shower occurs when a number of meteors flash seem to radiate (or shoot out from) the same point in the sky. They...
Facts About Mars
Mars and Earth have approximately the same landmass.
Even though Mars has only 15% of the Earth’s volume and just over 10% of...
New species of human ancestor discovered in South Africa
Hailed as one of the greatest fossil discoveries of the past half century, Homo naledi could change our understanding of human evolution.
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10 Weird and Grotesque Archaeological Finds
History is full of surprises, and archaeology allows us a rare glimpse into the past that often reveals more than any textbook ever could....
Five forbidden places on Earth where you’d better not tempt your...
It seems that we can go anywhere we want, if we have enough desire and money. But there are some places on Earth where...
Ollantaytambo
At the northern end of the Sacred Valley, Ollantaytambo is rare if not unique in Peru. Ollantaytambo is a massive citadel located 50 kilometers...
Koala Facts
Koalas eat a diet primarily of Eucalyptus leaves. To get more energy out of this diet, the Koala ferments part of what it eats...
We are not local ourselves...
Scientists have found out: it’s better to drink when you’re young!
The population of the Earth has been drinking alcohol in various forms for centuries and, apparently, is not going to stop. Who are the...
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“Confessions of the Son of the Century” by Musset
Musset began his novel in the summer of 1835, hastily dealing with other literary orders, and in February 1836 the novel was already published....
