Teenagers, beware! Here is another very good reason to never, ever have sex. Like these 50-million-year-old turtles, you could get so caught up in the act, that you don’t notice you are sinking into a bog full of toxic volcanic gasses. It’s a real risk! This happened to more than one pair of filthy, sex-having turtles. And condoms will not save you.
She can see an unimaginable range and depth of hues and is the first so-called ‘tetrachromat’ to be discovered in Britain following a 20-year search by researchers.
Most people have pulled long-forgotten vegetables from their refrigerator’s depths at least once, and just the memory is enough to make a stomach turn. But one man’s fridge mold is another man’s still life. Estonian artist Heikki Leis’ Afterlife is a veritable rotting cornucopia of vegetables photographed long past their prime.
VIA: –WIRED–
We are now living in the Anthropocene: humans are the main driver of planetary change. We’re pushing global temperatures, land and water use beyond anything our species has experienced before. We’re polluting the biosphere, acidifying the oceans, and reducing biodiversity. At the same time, our global population will grow from seven billion to nine billion by 2050, and all will need food, water and clean air. –CONTINUED–
New measurements of hundreds of skulls of white Americans born between 1825 and 1985 suggest that their typical noggin height has grown by about a third of an inch (eight millimeters).
It may not sound like much, but the growth translates to roughly a tennis ball’s worth of new brain room. –NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC–
CONSPIRAPORN! 