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Jun 25, 2015
Bees Closeup

Everything You Could Ever Want To Know About The Secret Life Of Bees

Albert Einstein once said that if honey bees became extinct, human society would follow in just four years. While we cannot know if that prediction is true, it gets at a larger truth: bees do far more than make honey. Bees 101 When we think of bees, the honeybee is...

Jun 25, 2015

Everything You Could Ever Want To Know About The Secret Life Of Bees

Albert Einstein once said that if honey bees became extinct, human society would follow in just four years. While we cannot know if that prediction is true, it gets at a larger truth: bees do far more than make honey. Bees 101 When we think of bees, the honeybee is...

By Abby Norman
Bees Closeup
Jun 23, 2015
Scully And Mulder

9 X-Files Episodes That Were Based On Real Events

Now that The X-Files revival has been confirmed (we’re getting six new episodes in January of 2016, which even made David Duchovny weep with joy), many have begun their requisite binge-watching of all nine seasons. What viewers might not have realized the first time around is that many episodes of...

Jun 23, 2015

9 X-Files Episodes That Were Based On Real Events

Now that The X-Files revival has been confirmed (we’re getting six new episodes in January of 2016, which even made David Duchovny weep with joy), many have begun their requisite binge-watching of all nine seasons. What viewers might not have realized the first time around is that many episodes of...

By Abby Norman
Scully And Mulder
Jun 18, 2015
Pope Francis Climate Change Quotes

20 Powerful Quotes By Pope Francis On Climate Change And The Environment

This Thursday Pope Francis released his much-anticipated (or dreaded, pending your politics) papal encyclical, which took on the topics of climate change, consumerism and environmental degradation through a moral lens. In the 184-page document, he calls for what the New York Times describes as “a radical transformation of politics, economics...

Jun 18, 2015
Science News

20 Powerful Quotes By Pope Francis On Climate Change And The Environment

This Thursday Pope Francis released his much-anticipated (or dreaded, pending your politics) papal encyclical, which took on the topics of climate change, consumerism and environmental degradation through a moral lens. In the 184-page document, he calls for what the New York Times describes as “a radical transformation of politics, economics...

By Savannah Cox
Pope Francis Climate Change Quotes
Jun 6, 2015
Failed Doomsday Predictions End Man

The End Was Nigh: Failed Doomsday Prophecies Throughout Time

The world has been about to end for a long time. In fact, if there’s a single philosophical idea that runs like a connecting thread through thousands of years of history, it’s that we definitely don’t have thousands of years left to live. People have been predicting the end of...

Jun 6, 2015

The End Was Nigh: Failed Doomsday Prophecies Throughout Time

The world has been about to end for a long time. In fact, if there’s a single philosophical idea that runs like a connecting thread through thousands of years of history, it’s that we definitely don’t have thousands of years left to live. People have been predicting the end of...

By Richard Stockton
Failed Doomsday Predictions End Man
May 25, 2015
Scientist Lab

5 Accidental Discoveries That Changed The World

In many ways, modernity can be viewed as little more than the the product of centuries of dumb luck. As you are about to see, some of the world’s most significant milestones were the result of nothing more than happy accidents. Accidental Discoveries: Penicillin

May 25, 2015

5 Accidental Discoveries That Changed The World

In many ways, modernity can be viewed as little more than the the product of centuries of dumb luck. As you are about to see, some of the world’s most significant milestones were the result of nothing more than happy accidents. Accidental Discoveries: Penicillin

By Savannah Cox
Scientist Lab
May 19, 2015

Red Medicine: Is Cuba The New Global Leader In Medical Science?

As the United States has taken some initial steps to reopen trade with Cuba, many of us are learning about the latter’s revolutionary, often successful medical interventions throughout recent history. Earlier this year, Cuba sent droves of doctors to Africa to aid in resolving the Ebola crisis, but most recently,...

May 19, 2015
Science News

Red Medicine: Is Cuba The New Global Leader In Medical Science?

As the United States has taken some initial steps to reopen trade with Cuba, many of us are learning about the latter’s revolutionary, often successful medical interventions throughout recent history. Earlier this year, Cuba sent droves of doctors to Africa to aid in resolving the Ebola crisis, but most recently,...

By Chris Altman
May 16, 2015
Britches the monkey with eyes sewn shut

The 7 Most Terrifying Experiments Ever Conducted

For the record, the writers at All That Is Interesting are not anti-science. For every person that scientific research hurts, hundreds are saved from pain and disease. But, sometimes, a scientific experiment is so obscenely brutal that you have to wonder if it was really worth it. Here are some...

May 16, 2015

The 7 Most Terrifying Experiments Ever Conducted

For the record, the writers at All That Is Interesting are not anti-science. For every person that scientific research hurts, hundreds are saved from pain and disease. But, sometimes, a scientific experiment is so obscenely brutal that you have to wonder if it was really worth it. Here are some...

By Chris Altman
Britches the monkey with eyes sewn shut
May 15, 2015
Microscope Bodies Liver

Your Body Under The Microscope

When Dutch spectacle-maker Zacharias Janssen invented the microscope at the end of the 16th century, he had no idea that he was opening the door to a brand new, tiny–and yet seemingly infinite–world. Since then we have been able to study this microcosm that has provided us with insight into...

May 15, 2015

Your Body Under The Microscope

When Dutch spectacle-maker Zacharias Janssen invented the microscope at the end of the 16th century, he had no idea that he was opening the door to a brand new, tiny–and yet seemingly infinite–world. Since then we have been able to study this microcosm that has provided us with insight into...

By All That's Interesting
Microscope Bodies Liver