You know, I often wonder if students could actually benefit from textbooks with more — and more interesting — pictures. I'm not saying a history class should be reading grown-up picture books, but wouldn't some good pics make discussions of the Teapot Dome scandal more engaging?
Well, if nothing else, we can supplement those dry, dusty tomes with some more fascinating material and still learn a few things from it. And, as a bonus, there's no test on any of this stuff.
Whether it's the Northern Lights or the Southern Lights, scientists have been hard pressed to explain why these amazing atmospheric light displays would care what's happening on the ground below.
With a skeleton made of gold and fins made of silicone — layered with a rat's heart muscle cells — the stingray can swim toward light. So, yeah, it's a real, working cyborg.
Can you even imagine the engineering it would take to get a train on and off a ferry safely every time?
It's a mushroom called stinkhorn, and yes, stinkhorns smell awful.
Is it called the "Rose Mushroom?" Of course not. It's called chicken of the woods, naturally.
First discovered by Voyager spacecraft in the '80s, astronomers at NASA say it towers hundreds of kilometers above Saturn's clouds, but they're not sure how and why it formed as a hexagon.
Not that we want to ramp up your paranoia levels or anything, but it's worth remembering.
This angled block was cut to fit so well that it didn't need any mortar — nor did any other stone in this wall.
I never thought they would train indoors, but you don't want to have to cut training short for weather, I guess.
Just their tongues can weigh as much as an elephant!
Just like a house cat's tongue, only larger and clearly meant for more serious business in the wild.
And just how talented, focused, and knowledgeable the pilots had to be!
As parade armor, it likely never saw battle, which is why it still looks so good more than 450 years later.
The 1% sure rode differently back in the day — when did they stop putting Persian rugs in cars?
To be fair, that almost certainly changes depending on the angle you look at it from, not whether you see it in a mirror or not.
I'd love to see someone mark the times of day on the grass, too.
