Tokyo-based artist Azuma Makoto teamed up with JP Aerospace for a mission called "Exobiotanica," which sent two plant pieces into the upper atmosphere: a Japanese white pine called "Shiki 1" and the above arrangement of peace lilies, poppy seed pods, dahlias, bromeliads, orchids, hydrangeas, lilies, and irises.
Crocodile purses, polar bear rugs, ivory chalices—they're all illegal in the U.S. And no matter where they're confiscated, these pieces ends up in a warehouse outside Denver named the National Wildlife Property Repository, a haunting space filled with the frozen faces of endangered and extinct creatures.
Back when I was a cute li'l co-ed — cardigan buttoned up to the neck and ponytail a-flippin' — I signed up for an introductory woman's studies course at my university. It was a good class, but I couldn't help but notice how the more I learned from it, the more radical and frightening things started to get.
Adorable architecture alert: graphic designer Matteo Muci animated some of the most famous buildings of the 20th century being built. From Farnsworth House to Fallingwater, take a minute and try to guess which iconic building is which before they're fully assembled.
Sometimes, everything goes beautifully in the lab : Your equipment works perfectly, your data sets are neat, and your results eminently publishable. And then sometimes, everything goes horribly, horribly wrong. These lab stories are all firmly in that second category — and, yes, there WILL be fire.
The internet’s most valuable source of information gets the musical treatment as Jimmy Fallon asks and Audra McDonald answers in song.
This is what the super fun open-world universe of Minecraft looks like from a non-playable character’s point of view.
Note: this video contains mildly graphic 3D animation.
Yep, the Seinfeld version of the Emoji app is here. Because sometimes, a smiling pile of poop can't convey what a fluffy shirt will.
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When Harry Truman was born in 1884 his parents couldn't decide on a middle name, so they simply went with the letter S. Their goal was to honor both Truman's paternal grandfather (Shippe) and his maternal grandfather (Solomon).
