bad ideas
-
American Museum Of Natural History Event Honouring Brazil’s Rainforest-Hating President Sparks Uproar
A museum dedicated to conserving nature and Brazil’s far right wing president, who is intent on opening the Amazon rainforest to mining, logging and fossil fuel exploration while kicking indigenous groups off their land, may seem like odd bedfellows. And yet New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is slated to host an event…
-
Don’t Sleep With Your Phone
Fancy computer phones are great. They let us communicate, work, document, learn, complain, order dinner, find consensual sex friends and plenty of other fun things. If I could attach myself to my phone with some sort of strange, dystopian umbilical cord-like apparatus, I would.
-
Scientists Confirm: Comets Smell Like Cat Piss
Rotten eggs, cat urine, bitter almonds — that’s the delightful elixir of aromas comprising the BO of one comet 67P, also known as Rosetta’s comet. In a heartwarmingly nerdy yet mildly alarming development, members of the Rosetta mission team have commissioned scent firm The Aroma Company to turn it into a perfume.
-
This Is Why You Have A Backup Parachute
Watch: Ever been tempted to shoot your parachute with a flare gun mid-flight? Well, this is what will happen if you do.