compoundchem: This Week in Chemistry: Detecting nuclear tests, graphene patches for diabetics, and more: http://goo.gl/1pN5Y4

compoundchem: This Week in Chemistry: Detecting nuclear tests, graphene patches for diabetics, and more: http://goo.gl/1pN5Y4

Cracked: Japan’s Coastline-Dwelling Citizens Have Centuries Of Experience In The Water-Dodging Field, Including Where Best To Lay Camp If They Don’t Want To Wake Up Drowned One Morning. Their Conclusion: Build Everything As High Up As Fucking Possible.

Did-You-Kno: There’s A Pot That Senses Light, Moisture, Temperature And Fertilizer Levels For Your Plant, Then Sends Alerts Through Its Companion App If Anything Is Needed. The Pot Contains A Database Of 8,000 Different Plants, Which You Can

Silenceformysoul: Herbert James Draper - Clyties Of The Mist

Historical-Nonfiction: Around 600 B.c.e., A Greek Athlete Named Protiselaus Threw A Discus 152 Feet From A Standing Position, A Record Not Exceeded For Over 2,500 Years, Until Clarence Houser Threw A Discus 155 Feet In 1928.

Cracked: You Hate It. Everyone Hates It. It’s Impossible To Open By Hand, And Even With A Pair Of Scissors, Massive, Hand-Shredding Chunks Of Plastic Are Left Sticking Out Of It At Odd Angles. It’s The War Crime Of Product Packaging, And There’s

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Did-You-Kno: Leonardo Da Vinci Was Dyslexic, Ambidextrous, And Predominantly Left Handed, Which Allowed Him To Draw With One Hand While Writing Backward With The Other. This Produced A Mirror-Image Script Around The Drawings Of His Inventions That Other

Onceuponatown: Traveling In Style. Dining Cars 1905-1910.

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