No one truly knows what happens when we die, but chances are you've heard about the 'white light' that people sometimes see when they've had a near death experience. So is that evidence of an afterlife,... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 weeks 3 days ago • 54 views • 2:44

Victor M. Sweeney, a licensed funeral director and mortician, once again answers the internet's burning questions about dead bodies and the funeral director profession. When someone dies, what happens... continue reading

posted by BSR 9 months ago • 7 views • 15:27

You’re alive right now… at least I’m pretty sure you are. But you’re not TOTALLY alive. Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out, and being replaced. Even right now, parts of you... continue reading

posted by BSR 9 months 4 weeks ago • 81 views • 13:12

From Youtube, "...66 million years ago, maybe on a Tuesday afternoon, life was the same as it had been the day before or a thousand years before or pretty much a million years before. Things were good... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 303 views • 12:02

The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:56

NightHawkInLight attempts to recreate a lost supermaterial called Starlite that supposedly died with its inventor.

posted by w1ndex 2 years ago • 68 views • 21:15

He was sentenced to prison but released early, as he was one of the people who were going to die from the radiation poisoning.

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 2 months ago • 116 views • 3:38

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 3 years 2 months ago • 166 views • 20:41

"Pacific mole crabs, also known as sand crabs, make their living just under the surface of the sand, where they're safe from breaking waves and hungry birds. Some very special physics help them dig with... continue reading

posted by ant 3 years 10 months ago • 88 views • 3:52

Honeybees are dying from parasites, pesticides, and poor nutrition, but we can help them in a number of ways, including by encouraging them to make a homemade antibiotic.

posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 119 views • 2:54

YouTube description: They may be dressed in black, but crow funerals aren't the solemn events that we hold for our dead. These birds cause a ruckus around their fallen friend. Are they just scared,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 857 views • 4:35

This is the story of a rock. It was once worth fighting wars over. Now its just a rock.

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 4 months ago • 407 views • 6:37

YouTube description: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months ago • 396 views • 14:33

The reason they need weevil greenhouses is that the Brazilian weevils don't like Texan winters, and tend to die off over winter. If they mentioned it in this video I missed it. YouTube description: ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 973 views • 3:44

After much arguing with Americans I'm now fairly convinced it's 'math' not 'maths'. A piece of me has died. -yt

posted by eric3579 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 685 views • 5:25

Let's say you're traveling at 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h) in low earth orbit, your main engines are out of fuel, and it's your job to guide the spaceship through a fiery re-entry without burning... continue reading

posted by Ashenkase 5 years 3 weeks ago • 114 views • 17:49