Netflix has a new compelling and urgent documentary series called “Our Planet”. It’s filled with beautiful visuals, amazing cinematography, and a desperate message that highlights the impact of humans on our surrounding ecosystems. Articles have been circulating that showcase the anxiety people feel while watching the series. It has even undergone criticism for it’s graphic and […] More
Thinking of getting your cute little progeny a bunny for Easter? Well, one bunny owner thinks you should really reconsider that thought. Her advice to potential bunny-buers is going viral. On image hosting site imgur, user MissHissyPants gave prospective bunny owners a primer on why it’s a genuinely bad idea, in her view, to buy […] More
Earlier this week we were graced with the first-ever direct image of a black hole. More than 200 researchers contributed to the effort (however only 40 of whom were women). The black hole is at the center of Messier 87 galaxy, about 55 million light years away. It’s truly an incredible feat. And it’s also been truly […] More
Following the ridiculousness that was the first Falcon Heavy launch, where SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster into space (because: why not?), SpaceX has now successfully completed its first launch for a commercial customer using the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. T-60 seconds → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/3eVqgEtxyR — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 11, 2019 The world’s most powerful […] More
By now most of the world has seen the incredible photo revealed April 10th by the Event Horizon Telescope Project and the National Science Foundation. Though the scientific world bubbled with excitement over the first ever image of a black hole, no one could be as excited as the team who worked tirelessly to make […] More
In showbiz, the common phrase is sex sells. But we are in a new era of film that may see the restructuring of our priorities. It seems now that animals sell. With a 2019 lineup of movies that are projected to, or have already performed well in the box office, many of these include a furry star. […] More
Star Trek, Andromeda, and Dr. Who. These wildly successful shows have some intersecting storyboards. Black holes have been the linchpin for many plot lines in film and TV alike. Commonly referred to ‘quantum singularities’, they create the perfect drama-driven episode that we love. All the black holes you have seen up until now have been […] More
Most of us think of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Pompeii as a singular, past-tense event. Like a myth, we can recount the story, the stunning loss of life, and the magnitude of awesome power that the supervolcano in Pompeii showcased as if it could never happen again. But can it? Well, it has. […] More
Being anti-vaccine is, decidedly, not a very smart position to stake out. I’m not telling you that you don’t have a right to be against vaccinating yourself, or your child. I’m just telling you that making an active decision to eschew vaccines that on the whole prevent infectious, deadly diseases from wiping out our species […] More
A Twitter account recently shared two photos for comparison to one another and the Internet is now full of people who believe they have a condition known as “astigmatism.” Though it sounds like something from some kind of low-rent horror film about Jesus, astigmatism is a condition of the eyes that prevents them from focusing […] More
Today, NASA announced that its Mars Curiosity Rover captured not one, but two solar eclipses from the surface of Mars last month – one each for both of its moons. In order to capture the eclipses, the Curiosity Rover had to bring along special “eclipse glasses”, as NASA explains on the JPL website: When NASA’s […] More
Don’t adjust the brightness on your phone; you read the headline right. The Mormon Church, which was so vehemently and virulently anti-LGBT that they helped pass California’s old Proposition 8 — a ban on same-sex marriage — a little more than a decade ago, has reversed its stance on homosexuality and will no longer label […] More
