This unique human trait actually gives us an adaptive advantage, as AsapSCIENCE tells us in this great video.
(via Geeks are Sexy)
We can’t afford to lose it, even for just 5 seconds.
What Would Happen If The World Lost Oxygen For 5 Seconds?, BuzzFeed (via VVv)
There’s no escaping it, so let’s just talk about it.
It turns out the brain in love looks strikingly similar to one on drugs like cocaine! Find out what drives love, and why we simply love being in love.
The Science of Love, AsapSCIENCE
In case you want proof on the power of thought, this video presents some scientific evidence.
The power of the mind and its ability to affect physical change may shock you! Find out how simply imagining can make it so.
Written and directed by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown, AsapSCIENCE
Expecting multiple yolks, what came out was more surprising. Redditor donnyst offered an explanation of this phenomenon:
According to a web video by the National History Museum in the United Kingdom, such a “double egg” is relatively rare. One forms when “unusual contractions” force a developing egg traveling down an oviduct back into the ovary. There, it is surrounded by another egg, with the concentric eggs being delivered as one.
Lejefferson also provided a video from NewScientist to further enlighten us on this double egg dilemma:
(From Cainedbutable, Reddit)
No, they’re not there to distinguish your front torso from your back.
Dear Gentlemen, science has a confession. You were once…a female – which helps to explain where your nipples came from. Watch and learn.
In this first installment of a series on light, Colm Kelleher describes the physics behind colors– why the colors we see are related to the period of motion and the frequency of waves.
What is color?, Colm Kelleher, TED-Ed
Scientists understand that Earth’s magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with a magnetic compass in your hand, the needle would point to ‘south.’ This is because a magnetic compass is calibrated based on Earth’s poles. The N-S markings of a compass would be 180 degrees wrong if the polarity of today’s magnetic field were reversed. Many doomsday theorists have tried to take this natural geological occurrence and suggest it could lead to Earth’s destruction. But would there be any dramatic effects? The answer, from the geologic and fossil records we have from hundreds of past magnetic polarity reversals, seems to be ‘no.’
Reversals are the rule, not the exception. Earth has settled in the last 20 million years into a pattern of a pole reversal about every 200,000 to 300,000 years, although it has been more than twice that long since the last reversal. A reversal happens over hundreds or thousands of years, and it is not exactly a clean back flip. Magnetic fields morph and push and pull at one another, with multiple poles emerging at odd latitudes throughout the process. Scientists estimate reversals have happened at least hundreds of times over the past three billion years. And while reversals have happened more frequently in “recent” years, when dinosaurs walked Earth a reversal was more likely to happen only about every one million years.
Read the rest of this article at NASA: 2012: Magnetic pole reversal happens all the (geologic) time, by Patrick Lynch
Image Credit/Copyright: Peter Reid, The University of Edinburgh
Scientists unveiled [...] an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite, shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before.
See more awe-inspiring photos: NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
(Credits: NASA Earth Observatory; NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
