The Cooke Passage...

...the longest land to land, 'straight line' ocean route on Earth. Over 2000 miles longer than the one from Kamchatka to Pakistan.

CATS...

‘Free’ apps may not be so free after all: They take a big toll on your phone.

100 Years Ago...

1.5 Million Christian Armenians Were Systematically Killed. Today, It's Still Not A 'Genocide'

Soldiers standing over skulls from the Ottoman Armenian village of Sheyxalan in the Mush valley, eastern Anatolia, circa 1916.

Armenian civilians are marched to a nearby prison in Mezireh by armed Ottoman soldiers in April 1915.

http://theconversation.com/100-years-on-australias-still-out-of-step-on-the-armenian-genocide-39792

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/armenian-genocide-controversy_n_7121008.html

The Fermi Paradox

Everyone feels something when they’re in a really good starry place on a really good starry night and they look up and see this:

Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe.
Physicist Enrico Fermi felt something too ”Where is everybody?”

When confronted with the topic of stars and galaxies, a question that tantalizes most humans is, “Is there other intelligent life out there?”...read more Tim Urban

Earth Day 2015

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Tournament Earth 2015 Winner - Faults in Xinjiang

Colliding continents and cracks in the Earth’s crust make for some remarkable scenery in western China.
Just south of the Tien Shan mountains, in northwestern Xinjiang province, a remarkable series of ridges dominates the landscape. The highest hills rise up to 1,200 meters (3,900 feet) above the adjacent basins, and they are decorated with distinctive red, green, and cream-colored sedimentary rock layers. The colors reflect rocks that formed at different times and in different environments. The red layers near the top of the sequence are Devonian sandstones formed by ancient rivers. The green layers are Silurian sandstones formed in a moderately-deep ocean. The cream-colored layers are Cambrian-Ordovician limestone formed in a shallow ocean.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82853

GAO YU

China has jailed a veteran journalist for leaking an internal Communist party document which urged the aggressive targeting of subversive ideological trends including support for western democratic ideals, media independence, civil society and the “universal values” of human rights.
Gao Yu, 71, has denied leaking state secrets abroad, and her lawyer said that she would appeal against her seven-year sentence. He said the prosecution lacked evidence and had based its case on her confession, which she said was made under pressure because her son was also in custody at the time.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/17/gao-yu-and-document-no-9-china-jails-journalist-for-leaking-state-secrets

Cats...

HIKARU CHO

...can you see the Panda?

‘Atropa’ Is a Low Budget Sci-Fi Short You Can't Afford to Miss.

Asking my mom...

...about GoT characters...

TEENS...

BRAIN TRICKS

http://www.quora.com/Neuroscientists/What-are-some-things-that-neuroscientists-know-but-most-people-dont

Every Automotive Emblem, Explained

Every Automotive Emblem, Explained