Well, not actual giant spiders, but large spider decoys to deter potential predators and scare the shit out of prey. Making yourself looking bigger and scarier for offense and defense is pretty common in the animal world, but building a sculpture of a larger spider out of pieces of leaves and other debris is a much different and much more complex feat than just puffing out your chest.
2,000 ping pong balls and 30 teachers in low gravity
In 2010, before Northrop Grumman’s Weightless Flights of Discovery program was shut down, thirty teachers and two thousand ping pong balls took a ride in a vomit comet and this was the result.
How Do You Describe Colors To Blind People?
Paralyzed dogs can now be cured by transplanted cells from their noses into their spines
There’s little sadder than a paralyzed dog, and often little that can be done for it other than give it some doggy wheels. But new research has discovered that transplanting noses from the nerves in a dog’s nose into the dogs spine can restore spinal function.
Millions of people have rosacea, a common condition that gives you a red, rosy and slightly inflamed looking face. Bill Clinton has it. Prince Harry has it. And now, scientists know what causes it. Tiny anus-less mites. Tiny mites, without a butthole, eating your face, and when they die, they explode, staining your skin with their poop. Lovely.
Because I know you’re curious, here’s a tortoise penis in action. For science.
And by “in action”, I mean you’re about to watch a tortoise’s bizarre flower-shaped dick make its way out of its body, and it’s going to bust a nut right on someone’s patio. Just thought you should be aware of that before you see the video.
Astonishing vintage film of five men standing right under an aerial atomic test
On July 19, 1957, five men stood at Ground Zero of an atomic test that was being conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This was the test of a 2KT (kiloton) MB-1 nuclear air-to-air rocket launched from an F-89 Scorpion interceptor. The nuclear missile detonated 10,000 ft above their heads.
Mr. Wizard is kind of a dick
Mr. Wizard taught kids a whole lot of science, but the master could be a harsh teacher at times. I can say I’ve seen every single one of these episodes.
That time when the Magic Schoolbus kids got covered in salmon semen
I’m pretty sure that would prompt some sort of disciplinary action in real life. “You shrunk your students down to the size of fish eggs and had them covered in semen? You thought that was a good idea?”
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