Land acknowledgments are a way to pay respect to the Indigenous people who lived on the the land before the arrival of Europeans. A new interactive map allows you to do just that. The map, probably the most popular and sophisticated of its kind, allows you to enter your address, or any address for that matter, and see which Indigenous nations lived on that particular land. If you search the
If you’re tired of measuring everything in geese feet and kidney stones—that’s what the imperial system measures things with, right?—then there’s a new alternative to this, and that is humans. Yep, humans have become a new measuring scale for things, no matter big or small. You just need to make sure one such human is in frame of whatever colossal or minuscule thing that you are t
1. 6 De flesta barn som går i mellanstadiet har nog andra grejer för sig än att bygga hus. Men Luke Thill, en 13-åring från Dubuque, Iowa, är inte som alla andra. Denna begåvade och driftiga kille har nu snickrat ihop sitt alldeles egna lilla hus, på föräldrarnas bakgård! Runt 12 000 har projektet kostat – men nu lever Luke sin dröm i sin lilla stuga. Häng med in!
What a better way to explore the beauty of a country than taking a road trip! At some point in your life you have probably thought about taking a road trip across your country, but it never seems possible to plan the perfect one. There's always some point of interest that gets lost in the shuffle or a boring route taken rather than a more interesting one. Randy Olson is a Computer Science &
Most of us rarely choose trains as a means of transportation for our travels, often preferring the privacy of a car or the convenience and speed of an airplane. But it does not always matter the destination but the journey. Despite the fast pace of our lives nowadays and the stress of getting to our destinations very quickly, there is still something romantic and poetic about train travel. S
A species of palm tree is perhaps the only mobile tree on this planet. Image source: Reddit Socratea Exorrhiza, a tree that grows in a remote part of Ecuador can, reportedly, walk – yupp, like Ents do in The Lord of the Rings. OK, these leafy giants might not be able to wage war on the forces of Isengard, but they definitely have a thing or two in common with their fictitious
“Bursts from this source have never been seen at this high a frequency." On August 26, scientists with the Breakthrough Listen initiative at the University of California (UOC), Berkeley, which is devoted to discovering signs of alien intelligent life, recorded 15 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away. Since FRBs, which last only a few millise
Two weeks before his death, famed scientist Stephen Hawking published a research article predicting parallel universes and along with the end of our own. Hawking and co-author Thomas Hertog published their results in "A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation," outlining how scientists may also be able to discover other universes using spaceships. According to Hertog, Hawking com
1. 9 14-vuotias Ellie Yeater on äitinsä mukaan erilainen, kuin muut ikäisensä. Tyttö säästi 500 dollaria, jotta hän voisi ostaa vanhan asuntovaunun ja kunnostaa sen omanlaisekseen. Tyttö käytti koko kesälomansa kunnostaen vuoden 1974 asuntovaunua. Suurimman osan työstä hän teki itse, mutta sai myös apua muilta perheenjäseniltä. Usein kuulee sanottavan, että nuoret v
And we don’t really know why. Image credit: Parque Nacional Ciervo de los Pantanos South America’s second longest river, the Paraná, which has a length of 4,880 kilometers, flows through three countries: Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. 4,880 kilometers is no short distance – it gives plenty of opportunities for discovering amazing things. In the case of the Paraná, one of
Photographer Finds Locations Of 1960s Postcards To See How They Look Today, And The Difference Is Unbelievable Hij zet 3 IKEA kastjes tegen elkaar aan en maakt dit voor zijn vrouw…Wat een gaaf resultaat!! 
Scientists Discover 512-Year-Old Shark, Which Would Be The Oldest Living Vertebrate On The Planet 
Hus til salg er kun 22 kvadratmeter – men vent til du ser det indvendigt 
Superknepet – så blir snuskiga ugnsformen som ny igen! 
Meteorite That Recently Fell in Somalia Turns Out to Contain Two Minerals Never Before Seen on Earth 
Nearly Frozen Waves Captured On Camera By Nantucket Photographer 
It’s Official: Astronomers Have Discovered another Earth 
