The biggest concern facing the earth right now, if not the biggest threat, is climate change. The World Economic Forum has warned that we are "sleepwalking into calamity" due to this. The repercussions of this change are already beginning to be felt across the world, from the amount of extreme weather occurrences in the US to the record-breaking heatwaves in Australia. The … [Read more...] about This Interactive Map Will Show You How Much Your Town Will Be Affected by Climate Change
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A Man From Australia Explains Why He Allowed a Spider The Size of His Face to Live Inside His Home For a Year
Ah Australia, the country where you might as well wish you were dead even if it isn't actively trying to murder you. An Australian guy has revealed his home visitor who has been residing with him for a full year in the latest "let's just admit it's uninhabitable" news. Jake Gray wrote about the enormous huntsman spider he had been "watching develop" for the past year on the … [Read more...] about A Man From Australia Explains Why He Allowed a Spider The Size of His Face to Live Inside His Home For a Year
A Mysterious 3,000-Year-Old Castle Has Been Discovered Hidden in a Turkish Lake
A group of underwater photographers, divers, and researchers recently discovered a strange castle at the bottom of a large lake. They uncovered a 3,000-year-old stronghold concealed beneath the sea in Turkey's eastern Van Province while diving in Lake Van. Tahsin Ceylan of Van Yüzüncü Yl University, the project's leader, was first scouring the lake for another legend - the … [Read more...] about A Mysterious 3,000-Year-Old Castle Has Been Discovered Hidden in a Turkish Lake
An Artist Placed Goldfish in Blenders and Asked Visitors to Turn Them on – They Did
Throughout history, there have been cases of people doing heinous acts for no other reason than the fact that they can. The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated that given a little power, a person would easily begin to mistreat peers of their own free will; a public art piece by Marina Abramovich demonstrated that simply handing a gun and instructing random bystanders to "do … [Read more...] about An Artist Placed Goldfish in Blenders and Asked Visitors to Turn Them on – They Did
Was 1976 Really That Much Hotter Than 2022, or Is That Just Climate Denialism?
People have taken to social media to decry the current circumstances, but the world really is on fire. The weather is really hot, in case you hadn't noticed. In addition to being extremely hot, the current heatwave sweeping over Europe is shattering past records and replicating forecasts of the disastrous repercussions of climate change, except that it is occurring 30 years … [Read more...] about Was 1976 Really That Much Hotter Than 2022, or Is That Just Climate Denialism?