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How did the universe create complexity given the second law of thermodynamics? It’s a fascinating question, because this is how life and humans were created in our universe. Here is an explanation in 18 minutes, starting at the beginning of time and following history to the present day. If you would like to learn more [...]
This video really is creepy. You just don’t expect your food to act like it is still alive…
There are several fascinating quotes in the following video, including: “Amazingly, the Census of Marine Life estimates that all microbes in the global ocean collectively weigh the equivalent of 240 billion African elephants.” An African elephant weights approximately 10,000 pounds, so let’s say they weigh as much as 70 average people. So the microbes weigh [...]
If you’re privileged enough to live in the U.K., then you were all into “Life” back in November. Yeah, you Brits have already glutted yourself on groundbreaking documentary footage, wept at the sight of pelicans gobbling down gannets and gasped as the time-lapse starfish clip caused you to spill cold cider on yourselves. Now it’s time for U.S. audiences to gape in amazement.
The science of chaos is fascinating, because it seems impossible to make a science out of disorder and mayhem. How can you find order in disorder? But it turns out you can, as described very nicely in this documentary from the BBC : “This is a film about one very simple question – how did [...]
One of the most read and most commented posts on the HSW blogs is this one: How Omegle Doesn’t Work -or- Signs that it may be time to examine your life… The basic message of that post is to point out that there are better things to do with your life than to chat on [...]
An American girl has a webcam chat with a starving boy from Africa See also: Signs that it may be time to examine your life… [[[Jump to previous MYT - Makes you think – The U.S. deficit]]]
Here’s an interesting test – you fill out a questionaire and it calculates your projected life span. The questionaire takes about 5 minutes: How long will I live? It looks at a number of factors that affect life expectancy, but it also leaves out many. For example: – it does not look at the effects [...]
With the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over their heads, governments, companies and even individual families invested in fallout shelters during the 1960s. If worst came to worst, they could descend into their provisioned holes and hope to eventually emerge to reclaim a ravaged world.
Yet even the worst scenarios for man-made Armageddon at the time couldn’t hold a candle to what Earth endured approximately 3.9 billion years ago, during the Hadean Eon. Due to a little orbital readjustment among our solar system’s gas giants, our planet was pelted with a barrage of meteor strikes. The damage was catastrophic, melting the surface to magma. Our oldest rocks formed in these days, and the earliest signs of life emerged in the wake of the destruction — or so we’ve long believed.
Reducing your caloric intake by 1/3 may extend your lifespan up to 40 percent. Learn more about the human lifespan in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com
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