Nature
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Mars’ grand canyon can kick our Grand Canyon’s ass
Mars may or may not have water, but it does have a gigantic, beautiful canyon that puts America's Grand Canyon to shame. I
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New species of jellyfish lives in Portland International Airport and feeds on anxiety
If you happen to be migrating through Portland International Airport, you may have come across this tank of jellyfish gently drifting in the currents.
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The Confluence Project is photographing every latitude/longitude intersection on Earth
Although volunteers have visited more than a third of the accessible confluence points, there are 10,166 out there waiting to be visited.
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This insane guy stood right next to a gigantic, beautiful waterfall of lava
He did this ON PURPOSE.
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Disney’s building France an eco-retreat and we’re jealous
America and Europe may both be full of privileged white people, but nobody would mistake them for being culturally interchangeable. Case in point: In America, Disney makes amusement parks that are better than real life and that allow us to stuff ourselves silly while hanging out with plush versions of our imaginary cartoon friends. In […]
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This robot enjoys nature for you while you’re stuck at your desk
Rat race getting you down? Shitty economy and lack of full-time benefits keeping you from that summer retreat you dreamed of? Fear not, you can have it all: the semi-stability of wage-slave employment and the idyll of skipping stones through a perfect Idaho pond. Skippy the stone-skipping robot’s here to help you out. See, you […]
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Life-size LEGO garden sprouts up in Australia
In the Age of the Anthropocene, nature is what humans make it. LEGO took this idea quite literally when it graced the Australian town of Broken Hill, in New South Wales, with these giant versions of LEGO flowers and trees.
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Crazy living rock is one of the weirdest creatures we’ve ever seen
The fact that this sea creature looks exactly like a rock with guts is not even the weirdest thing about it.
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Dear god, this insane old nature show is amazing
Man, you know when you’re eating lunch at a rest stop and you get up to follow a raccoon, and he goes through this doorway standing in the middle of nowhere, and then BOOM! Eye of Horus! and then the door disappears and a batty old lady shows up to tell you about seagulls and […]