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The strong volcanic activity is driven by tidal heating due to being in a pretty tight orbit (~400,000km, similar to our moon) around...

TIL that there are birds that cannot walk. I ran across an instagram post regarding 'be on the lookout for stranded loons', which...

The commercial airline industry has an amazing safety record mostly based on the creation of structured rules and compliance. The...

In this universe, mankind looked up at the sky and said... Yuck. Humans looked upwards. In our world they saw hope, romance, and...

I have a friend (a molecular geneticist) who has an identical twin. The twin is married with children, but not him. He says his twin's...

What about twins marrying twins?

Yeah, I read a fictional (but extremely well studied) book where a jewish "doctor" (We're talking ~1000-2000 AD), specializing in...

Well, one guy Sushruta invented cataract surgery and rhinoplasty in India. There is a paper on Indian contributions. Not as much as the...

Sounds to me like he broke a 'bureaucracy law'. Reminds of how in the navy I was somehow competent enough maintain everything from...

My backyard has "frontage" to a swamp - where there are many Common Snapping turtles. That's where I canoed past the really big one...

I never gave much thought about the species range of snapping turtle until I read this article - about a snapper found a few miles north...

When i was a kid, I kept plenty of turtles. I have been fascinated by snapping turtles but never kept one. Alligator snappers are larger...

Update: Air Canada pilot flew passengers for years with a fake pilot’s license, police say...