In 1997, Julia Hill climbed a 200-foot 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree and did not come down for 738 days to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down.

She ultimately reached an agreement with the company to spare the tree and a 200-foot buffer zone…

“I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books.” —Haruki Murakami buff.ly/2GS509A

Wanna pause AI?
You might have to travel back to 1745, before Vaucanson.

Why did Led Zeppelin, described as the 'heaviest band of all time,' the 'biggest band of the seventies,' and 'unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history' disband so early?

Originally known as the New Yardbirds, the name Led Zeppelin came from a comment made by…

Hello, I have a fantastic Saturday morning read for you. In fact, you'll be engrossed in this the whole day.

As promised, we have published our disruptive project - the unique public-health project funded by Paras Chopra to analyze common/well-known protein supplements sold in…

Nature is Amazing ☘️ If you’re thinking it’s blood, it isn’t

It’s actually a Flamingo’s crop milk, it’s very bright red and provides nutrients for their young

It contains no red blood cells and isn’t similar to blood in anyway except colour

A flamingo couple feeding its young

An animation demonstrating the German Blitzkrieg ('lightning war') during WW2.

The heart of an aircraft's artificial horizon is a gyroscope mounted in a double gimbal, which allows the aircraft to pitch and roll as the gyro stays vertically upright

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The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes.

Their bites are tiny and painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until paralysis begins.

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An interesting method to tell the sex of a chick from its wing's feathers.

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Anne Hathaway teaches importance of critical thinking in less than a minute.

Why did America destroy its own cities?

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non aesthetic things Geese flying along boat, wonderful. ?? 👍

Retirement is when you can leave your past behind and embrace your future. 😉
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This very famous picture shows the face that was separated from its donor (a woman who died of an overdose) after 16 hours of a transplant operation at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

The surgeons are observing it, pausing before transplanting it, a task in which they would spend…

How English has changed over the years

You can see photosynthesis in real-time

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The difference between turbojet, ramjet, and scramjet engines.
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Jonny Buchardt tricks his audience of middle-aged Germans into saying something they shouldn't have, 1973.