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"Sleep is just a bad habit." So declared Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion car, and the Dymaxion house, in a 1943 TIME article announcing his latest innovation: Dymaxion sleep. Fuller's theory was that humans have a ...

Researchers at Keele University have proven what stubbed-toe sufferers have long known: swearing actually helps with pain. According to Wikipedia, in a 2009 study published in NeuroReport, Richard Stephens and colleagues found that subjects could ...

Iceberg A-23A has been around since 1986, when it broke off from Antarctica at nearly twice the size of Rhode Island. It spent more than 30 years grounded in the shallow waters of the Weddell Sea before breaking free in 2020, then got stuck spinning ...

Frost flowers sometimes appear on ponds during especially cold, still mornings, right as the water starts to freeze. Here's a stunning video of what they look like. As moist air rises off the open water and hits the cold air above, it turns into thin ...

There's a good chance you've heard the word "wenis" long before you wondered what it actually meant. It's the goofy name for the loose skin on the outside of your elbow -- the part that wrinkles when your arm is straight and smooths out when you bend ...

In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid Harvard researchers the equivalent of $50,000 to publish a literature review that downplayed sugar's role in heart disease and pointed the finger at fat and cholesterol instead. According to UCSF researchers who ...

Venture just outside Leiden in the Netherlands, and you'll spot a gigantic 115-foot-tall orange human figure looming beside the highway. The giant sits mysteriously, partially swallowed by a glass building. This eye-catching sculpture serves as the ...

Jo Cameron was 65 when she had hip replacement surgery. Her pain score afterward was zero out of ten. The following year, she needed hand surgery for severe arthritis -- a procedure doctors describe as "excruciating" during recovery. She assured her ...

Whatever you intended to do when you opened a new tab, nothing stops you in your tracks quite like short-form video. The format, popularized by Tik Tok, "degrades our capacity to retain intentions," according to research from the Ludwig Maximilian ...

It turns out that sloths do fart after all. Zoologist and founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society, Lucy Cooke, once gave a delightful TED talk about sloths. She defended the notably unhurried creatures against the disparaging words of a Spanish ...