Scientifically accurate "Finding Nemo"
In which Nemo's mother dies, his father switches sex, and
Nemo grows up into a male in order to mate with his now-female living parent. It's the ciiiiirrrrrcle of liiiiffffe!
Some cute animals photos may have not-so-cute back stories
A photo analysis written in Chinese and translated by photographer
Jenn Wei claims that a lot of ostensible nature photos featuring cute
frogs, lizards, and snails
are actually staged shots.
The animals are likely to be pet store critters and, in some cases,
were probably even manipulated in abusive ways, such as hanging up a
frog's arms and legs with string to force it into a clever pose.
The chemistry behind Walter White's famous meth
At Popular Mechanics,
an analytical chemist uses clues from Breaking Bad
to explain both the real science behind Walter White's meth formula,
and the key flaw that either means the show's writers are taking a
little artistic license
or Walter is even more of a chemistry genius than anybody thought.
Your right brain is not creative
Creativity is actually more than one thing, it happens in many
different parts of your brain, and it is DEFINITELY NOT confined to the
brain's right hemisphere. At Beautiful Minds, Scott Barry Kaufman talks
about the complex processes that get glossed over in
our pop-sci understanding of creative thinking.
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