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What Your Body Will Do In The Next 30 Seconds

You might think 30 seconds is pretty short. Your body doesn’t though. In order to keep everything running, there’s a lot of things going on in those 30 seconds.


What Aging From One Year Old To 102 Years Old Looks Like, And What It Means

Aside from the science of ageing and how faces get wrinkled and joints get creaky, there are also the hidden costs of ageing too. This video shows what it means to age, by revealing people ranging from one year old to 102 years old and the statistics of ageing.


Naked Human Bodies Jumping Up And Down In 2000FPS Is Not Flattering (NSFW)

Jiggle. Blubber. Bounce. Gravity’s a bitch. It’s especially unforgiving if you jump up and down naked while getting filmed at 2000FPS. That sort of slow motion camera work exposes all the extra meat we carry on our bodies. LA video artist Michael Haussman captured naked people in slow motion to show you what you’re missing. Please note the video is NSFW.


Watch Humans Age From 1 Year Old To 100 Years Old

Using a Panasonic GH2, Dutch filmmaker Jeroen Wolf captured people ranging from 1-year young to 100-years old. It’s simple — the person stares at the camera at states their age — yet incredibly touching to see the growth and experience you earn as the years add up.


Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Columbus Landing In America Was The Most Important Event In History

Christopher Columbus is a polarising figure in American history. He was a hero! He was a villain! But what if we look past the immediate consequences and look at his broader, unintended impacted on the human species as a whole?


Scientists Find Completely New Human Species

Your family tree just got wider. Scientists have analysed fossils found in China and deemed them to be from a new human species unlike any ever identified before; say hello to your long-lost cousin.


Redheads Feel Pain Differently

If you think redheads are inherently different, well, you’d be right; they’re better than you. In fact, they have a higher pain threshold than most of us and can handle spicier food too.


How Gossip Saves Society

Everybody loves to talk about other people. It’s human nature. But our society seems to stigmatise gossip, branding it as common, rude and just a little bit shameful. Turns out, though, it’s not all bad.


Your Posture Affects Your Decision-Making

Scientists have found that if you lean to the left, you think Michael Jackson had fewer #1 hit singles than if you lean to the right or stand up straight.


Scientifically Speaking, Nice Guys Do Not Actually Finish Last

Think only jerks can catch a break in this cruel world? Nope. David Rand, a Harvard University researcher, studied the behaviour of 800 individuals he recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to prove it.