January 22, 2015 at 9:56 am
Swimming with Giant Manta Rays in Ecuador
Watch these divers swim with Giant Manta Rays off the coast of Ayangue, Ecuador. What an unforgettable experience this would be!
Watch these divers swim with Giant Manta Rays off the coast of Ayangue, Ecuador. What an unforgettable experience this would be!
Photograph by MATTHEW PETROFF The George Peabody Library is the 19th century research library of The Johns Hopkins University. It is located on the Peabody campus at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland. The collections are available for use by the general public, in keeping with the philanthropist George Peabody’s goal to create a…
For the first time ever, Microsoft HoloLens seamlessly blends high-definition holograms with your real world. Microsoft believes holograms will improve the way you do things every day, and enable you to do things you’ve never done before. You can learn all about the new HoloLens at the official site here.
Photograph by another sergio on Flickr A new study has shown a simple, no-cost trick to increasing fruit and vegetable consumption by as much as 54%—switching recess to before lunch in elementary schools. Photograph by USDA on Flickr Joseph Price, an economics professor at Brigham Young University, collaborated with Corenell’s David Just…
Photograph via @MetroUK on Twitter On 29 June 2012, Andrew Shannon entered the National Gallery of Ireland and punched a hole through a Monet painting from 1874, valued at nearly $12 million. While Shannon was recently sentenced to 5 years in prison, the painstaking process of restoring the prized artwork took an arduous 18…
Watch a 13,654-piece stick bomb “explode” in this amazing setup by TheDominoKing0197. In the description he says the setup included “cobra weave” but that it consisted mostly of “ortho weave” due to a lack of space.
Visual by John Brady @ Astronomy Central John Brady of Astronomy Central published an interesting post that compares objects in space with Earth and even land masses on our planet. In the visualization above, Brady replaced the planet of Saturn with Earth to show how much larger it is, along with how massive Saturn’s…
Before N After Adoption is a subreddit dedicated to sharing before and after photos of adopted animals. The heartwarming images show abandoned animals in their new and loving homes and it’s just wonderful to see. The subreddit was created after a series of posts on reddit went viral (here and here) and people have…
Martin Buckner is an artist and graphic designer based out of Omaha, Nebraska. He’s also the father to an adorable daughter named Harper Grace. Like so many young children, Harper is known to say some pretty funny, random and insightful things. There’s really nothing more fascinating than a child’s mind and how they perceive…
Tourists on a safari in Kasana, Botswana experienced a close encounter they will never forget as an enormous Hippo dives and catches up to their motorboat. Never underestimate the speed and aggression of a hippo.
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