A couple of decades ago, 3D printers seemed pure science fiction. Sure, they have existed since the ‘80s and even earlier, but they weren’t really good for a whole heck of a lot. The technology has advanced in strides, though. Today, you can go buy a perfectly good 3D printer for a couple hundred bucks …
The sea is a weird and scary place. We’re lucky in one sense, though — even the biggest fish today aren’t that big. Sure, something like the whale shark and basking shark are pretty enormous, but they’re harmless plankton eaters. The great white shark might be big but even that pales in comparison to the …
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Have you read The Strange Survival Story Of Phineas Gage: Part One? Follow the link if you’d like to, because this is part two. The thing is, there are huge blood vessels on both sides of the head, and his injury was within 1/100 of an inch that these blood vessels were not disturbed. The …
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This is an oldie but a goodie and a strange survival story. It’s a marvel of medical science, the shattered skull of Phineas Gage. This case shows evidence of a truly traumatic injury. Gage had two sections of his skull missing, cracks from the lesions and damage behind left eye socket and in his cheekbone. …
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The Salish Sea is a beautiful body of water between Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Yet, there’s a gruesome phenomenon has been taking place beneath the rugged cliffs and lush forests. Severed human feet, still in shoes, keep washing up the shores of the Salish Sea. More than 20 feet have been found around …
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Space is a scary place in general, but perhaps the most terrifying thing out there is black holes. You can barely observe them until you’re caught in their enormous gravitational pull and compressed into the infinitely dense singularity at their center. Their gravity is so strong that nothing can escape them — not even light. …
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The craziest flooding in New York has happened and it’s getting worse. Here are a bunch of facts about New York’s flooding. New York is home to over 8 million people and is the largest metropolis in the US. The city is under attack from hurricanes, just like the rest of the East Coast. Death …
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Picture a herd of wild boars charging at you from a forest. That’s scary enough on its own, but what if the boars were also highly radioactive? You might wonder which post-nuclear-apocalypse movie we’re talking about. The thing is, though, this isn’t science fiction. It’s just life in Germany. The central European country is currently …
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Here are some uncommon characteristics in humans. Do you know about these traits that help some humans be even more unique? Red Hair Only one or two out of a hundred people have red hair. Red hair comes from your genes, specifically the MC1R. With red hair, you have a gene mutation, or possibly several. …
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It’s like you walk outside, ready for a deep breath of fresh air and boom, all you smell is smoke. Air pollution. The United States isn’t the only country dealing with wildfire smoke and more. The worst air pollution has really been bothering us and these are the 10 main causes. Wildfire Smoke Climate change …
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