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The blue whale's heart weighs about 400 pounds, beats as slowly as twice per minute when the animal is deep-diving, and pushes blood…
A blue whale's heart weighs 400 pounds, slows to two beats a minute on deep dives, and pushes blood through an aorta the width of a dinner plate. The first specimen ever fully preserved rewrote nearly everything textbooks claimed about its size.
Human Behaviour
Quote by Viktor Frankl: When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves
Viktor Frankl's most quoted line has been flattened into self-help decoration, but its actual meaning is harder and more useful than the pastel version suggests.
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In May 1961, Alan Shepard's Mercury flight was delayed so many hours on the pad that he eventually radioed mission control to say he had to…
The idea that Earth is the Solar System's ultimate water world is misleading
In April 2025, four private astronauts aboard SpaceX's Fram2 became the first humans ever to circle Earth in a true polar orbit
On Earth, dimethyl sulfide is produced overwhelmingly by life in the oceans and escapes into the atmosphere
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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades
A meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969 contains grains of stardust up to 7 billion years old
A cotton T-shirt takes roughly 2,700 litres of water to produce, about what one person drinks in two and a half years, and most of that…
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Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A
Dogs assess more than a person’s posture, voice, or facial expression when they meet them
The axolotl can regrow a lost leg, a piece of its heart, parts of its spinal cord, and even sections of its brain with no scarring, and yet…
The blue whale's heart weighs about 400 pounds, beats as slowly as twice per minute when the animal is deep-diving, and pushes blood…
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