Editor’s note: This is the 43rd entry in the writer’s project to read one book about each of the U.S. Presidents in the year prior to Election Day 2016. Follow Marcus’ progress at the @44in52 Twitter account and the 44…
GIF Seems like it’s been a while since we checked up on our favorite country via a sweeping nature video, so it’s good to know that, yup, Iceland is still the most visually stunningly place on Earth. The drone footage…
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If our parents or president can’t provide the answers, Americans turn to Google. After last night’s historic upset, many people searched online for help understanding what just happened. Some, it appeared, were looking for facts. Others wanted emotional reassurance that…
Photos: MPI for Ornithology/Getty All hail the Brazilian free-tailed bat, which has just claimed a new flight speed record for all mammal-kind. According to researchers at Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, bats of the species weighing less than half an…
The LeEco Super Bike may be the perfect analogy for the company that created it. It’s a strange amalgamation that patches together a lot of disparate ideas together in a less than elegant way. It’s clearly trying really hard and…
Image: Imperial College London/DNA Electronics Scientists in the UK have developed a USB stick that can quickly and accurately measure the amount of HIV is in a patient’s blood. The medical device was created by scientists at Imperial College London…
Based on the search strings that trended for November 9th, the world turned to Google in an effort to understand the President-elect’s surprise win and the United States’ complicated voting system. Google Trends posted the most popular searches after Donald…
Until this morning I never knew Speed Flying existed as a sport, but now that I’ve done a little research it appears to be a unique combination of parachuting/skydiving and wingsuit flying/BASE jumping. You run and jump off a cliff…
After cracking jokes about the new president-elect Donald Trump and suggesting Elizabeth Warren grieve with a neck tattoo, Stephen Colbert offered a message of unity during his monologue Wednesday night. Colbert urged viewers who want to move up north to…