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iflscience.com Although it resides on chilled-out, tourist-friendly beaches, the manchineel tree (Hippomane mancinella) seems hell-bent on its vendetta against humanity. This tree can found in the Caribbean, the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, parts of northern South America, The Galápagos...

theconversation.com Australia is so famous for its dangerous creatures that visitors often arrive fearful that everything that moves is out to get them. In a land where snakes, spiders, shells and even one of the iconic mammals – the platypus – can bite or sting, should we all be worried...

iflscience.com Known as jumping spiders, members of the Salticidae family of arachnids are remarkable for more than just their ability to leap through the air. Among their many impressive attributes is a level of cognizance rarely seen in creatures of their diminutive size, which enables them...

iflscience.com As if it's not impressive enough for a slow-moving plant species to have learned to trap insects, Venus flytraps have learned another skill we normally associate with animals – the knowledge of how to count, in order to determine when to close their jaws on their prey. "The...

immortal-jellyfish.com The good news is that you can be immortal. The bad news is that you have to become a floating blob of jelly to do so. Scientists have discovered a jellyfish which can live forever. Turritopsis dohrnii is now officially known as the only immortal creature. The secret to...

Happiness, Introspection & Thinking | How Much Time We Spend Thinking Happy Thoughts All of us probably know people who rarely reflect about deeper issues of life, spirituality, or happiness, and yet are the happiest people around. Does this mean that the best way to be happy is to stop...

How come this is the case for majority of ppl? Our lives are filled with luxuries and opportunities our ancestors could only dream about. In the developed world, most of us have abundant food and water, live longer and healthier lives than ever before, have shelter to protect us from the...

elitedaily.com, Nicole Cottrell When something is broken, fix it. That’s what we’re always told, isn’t it? But, what if that isn’t the answer? What if it’s better to cut our losses in search of something better and more rewarding? Letting people go is a hard life hack to master, purely...

Even though we humans have the scientific know-how and technological capacity to create a world of abundance where every person on Earth could be fed with whole, organic, nutritious food, we have created a system in which it is more affordable and convenient to eat fast food, filled with...

Sometimes a story can teach much more than entire philosophical treatises. • A Useless Life A farmer got so old that he couldn’t work the fields anymore. So he would spend the day just sitting on the porch. His son, still working the farm, would look up from time to time and see his father...

Boroughs in London are beginning a pilot scheme to test the DNA of dog poop to try to catch lazy owners who don’t pick it up, in what sounds like a comedy spin-off of George Orwell's "1984." And no, it definitely isn't April Fools' Day. The 3-month test scheme will kick off in the appropriately...

Several years ago Jim Carrey has delivered what is in my eyes in top 3 of the best and the most impactful - perspective changing speeches of all time. It had an immense impact on me when I've first seen it. Profound impactful speeches certainly aren't new to him. He reached millions of souls...

iflscience.com We know that the oceans are warming and becoming increasingly acidic as we continue to pump more and more CO2 into the atmosphere. But they also face another threat from mankind: plastic. Our modern lives are dominated by this ubiquitous material, from the packaging on the food...

I pictured this thread as a collection of fascinating, mind-boggling, inspirative, bizarre and strange, unexplainable and unbelievable things that our world delivers! Stumbled upon a mind-blowing photo, fact story or news? Be sure to post it here!

This fantastic discovery has "Journey To The Center Of The Earth" written all over it! :) A group of American researchers have discovered a gigantic ocean that its between the earth's crust and core where large reserves of water, about three times as much as on the surface, rests. Led by...

creativesystemsthinking.com “I like to experience the Universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. The tree outside is life… The whole of nature is life… The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we...

Prince Ea http://youtu.be/itvnQ2QB4yc The world is coming to an end. The air is polluted, the ocean’s contaminated. The animals are going extinct. The economy’s collapsed. Education is shot. Police are corrupt. Intelligence is shunned and ignorance rewarded. The people are depressed and...

As basic, primitive and childlish it appears, I've actually lost a good part of the afternoon on this (I'm that lame lol). Initially I almost posted the name of the object, but let's bust your brain membranes a bit. :) Hints: • it's an object • it belonged to my great grandpa

http://youtu.be/QIu0cEQ_yxM There's nothing wrong with being a little bit passive aggressive. Or a lot passive aggressive. Which is the case of one snow shoveller who got a little bit fed up with shoveling the snow one winter. Instead of shoveling a nice, neat snow-free crossing into the...

Each poster posts a word that rhymes with the one above and gives a new word. I.e. I post: drastically You post: practically and give a new word. Let's start: Simplicity