Friday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA (link) may be the most remarkable picture yet released of those taken by the New Horizons spacecraft of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. New Horizons shot a huge number of pictures as … Continue reading
This is an NBC promo but it’s still worth watching, even if you’re not a football fan. (Besides, it runs barely over 3 minutes.) Link: https://youtu.be/5UoG6cv6i_c Also, female sports journalists keep getting younger. by … Continue reading
I once read of a study in which a chimpanzee was tasked with sorting photographs based on the categories of the objects depicted and placed a photograph of a chimp on the pile of pictures of people. So apparently at … Continue reading
My brother Mark sent me a link to this nifty video of people singing and playing “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay” around the world: Link: https://youtu.be/Es3Vsfzdr14 More from Playing for Change: https://www.youtube.com/user/PlayingForChange/videos It reminds me of these joyful, … Continue reading
Years ago I read somewhere that people who hate broccoli have a gene that enables them to taste things that the rest of us can’t, including very bitter flavors in some vegetables. Here’s a video about that, which I feel … Continue reading
Like a lot of people, I sit way, way too much, and I keep reading that this is bad for one’s health and telling myself I ought to do something, like maybe get a standing desk or move around for … Continue reading
A BBC presenter doing live narration for a documentary on whales has just finished explaining why they haven’t been able to spot any whales and aren’t likely to do so today when behind him a blue whale, having been waiting … Continue reading
I’ve known dogs who would bark at visitors not when they arrived but when they left, and other dogs who would take pillows with them when they went outside, apparently meaning to liberate them into the wild. I particularly like … Continue reading
From Laina: Link: https://youtu.be/NOwk68FZ2uY by … Continue reading
A parent trying to encourage a baby to say “Mama” by offering a treat, and the family dog wants in on the action: Link: https://youtu.be/I_zW6APE1qQ Update: This video was made private for a while, possibly in an effort to discourage … Continue reading