Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, has confirmed that he is gay. While you could say it’s no one’s business who the mind behind your iPhone sleeps with at night, it actually is. There are so many kids, proud nerds like me and Tim Cook, who are in high school […]
Humanity will probably have killed itself before the sun does, but maybe not? Space travel is humanity’s chance of surviving the sun’s inevitable death, so let’s start getting excited about it. Excited about space travel that is, not the sun killing everything on Earth. Give this video a watch and […]
In September, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson had to make the heartbreaking decision to put his beloved puppy Brutus down. Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images. “As all puppies and dogs do, he ate a mushroom while playing outside with his brother Hobbs,” Johnson wrote on Instagram. “This mushroom happened to have […]
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As it turns out, math comes in really … handy. Read more: http://upworthy.com/if-you-dont-think-this-math-is-interesting-theres-the-door
In college, I made bad student films about snowflakes and my feelings, whereas this guy used photos and sound from NASA and the International Space Station to make a poignant time-lapse film. He wins. Oh, and since space exploration encourages countries to work together, maybe we should, you know, fund […]
In light of some astronomers’ recent proclamations announcing their direct observation of gravitational waves, Trace Dominguez and Ian O’Neill explain how this is not only evidence for quantum gravity, but the occurrence of the Big Bang as well. Read more: http://upworthy.com/two-guys-explain-clearly-how-we-now-know-the-big-bang-actually-happened
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Patents were intended to encourage innovation. How’s that working out? UPDATE: The US Supreme Court has now ruled that naturally occurring genes can’t be patented. Read more: http://upworthy.com/a-major-obstacle-to-global-badassery-explained-in-60-seconds
Bacteria. They’re just … so … beautiful? And essential to life on earth? Read more: http://upworthy.com/a-video-about-bacteria-thats-as-beautiful-as-anything-ive-seen-in-a-long-time