What Causes the Air to Smell Nice After it Rains? It’s a smell that anyone with a working olfactory system will immediately recognize: the smell of fresh rain. What happens after a new rainstorm to make the air smell so pleasant? It all comes down to plants and a little chemistry. The pleasant odor after […]
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A Snowy Day In Amsterdam I’ve been here once, but it looks much different when the tulips are in bloom. RECENT POSTS TAGS
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An Eagle Named Freedom In the tradition of A Lion Called Christian and Alex and Me comes An Eagle Named Freedom, Jeff Guidry’s story of rehabilitating an eagle named Freedom back to health. And how that amazing eagle later inspired the author to triumph over cancer. RECENT POSTS TAGS
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Tortoise On Wheels A 90-year-old tortoise nicknamed Mrs. T is now mobile again thanks to a custom set of wheels. After a rat attack resulted in the lose of her two front legs, her owners affixed wheels from a model aircraft to her shell. “It was like fitting her with a turbocharger — she’s going
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Cosmic Eye This is truly mind-bending. The video below was generated using the iOS App “Cosmic Eye”, written by Danail Obreschkow at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research at the University of Western Australia. Cosmic Eye drew inspiration from a progression of increasingly accurate graphical representations of the scales of our Universe, including the