The average mammalian species lifespan is a million years. But Homo sapiens only evolved about 100 thousand years ago. So we've got a long road ahead of us. This chart explores where we've been, and where we might be headed.
Natural disasters have claimed countless human lives throughout history, with their unexpected waves of destruction. But there's still something uniquely terrifying and heart-breaking about an industrial disaster, when our best precautions fail and our achievements turn deadly. Here are the worst industrial catastrophes ever.
The gas mask has a history that dates back thousands of years, though it wasn't until World War I that it became nightmare fodder for "Doctor Who" and countless other stories. Here is a sometimes terrifying history of the gas mask, from its beginnings through the present day.
Amanda Ghassaei decided to test how maple worked as a song-delivery medium by laser cutting her own wooden records. You can certainly hear the songs on each record, but Ghassaei explains the challenges of making high quality wooden records.
In order to pay Germany's staggering World War I reparations, one of the country's greatest scientific minds created a plan to concentrate and remove gold from seawater.
Given how slowly our brains react to incoming visual information, it should actually be impossible for us to hit a blistering fastball. But we can. That's because, instead of showing us the world as it really is, our brains offer us a glimpse of the future.
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The human palate is arguably the weakest of the five traditional senses. This begs an important question regarding wine tasting: is it bullshit, or is it complete and utter bullshit?
There's a famous joke question: "When did you stop beating your wife?" The structure of the question is funny — or disturbing — because any response condemns you. You'd assume that a quick-witted person could see through it. But this study proves that you're wrong.
Dora the peregrine falcon wore a camera on her back to capture this incredible and brutal video. Watch as she slams into a flying duck, killing it in the air.
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