The developers of a video game say it could help treat people with the lazy eye condition. Dig Rush adjusts the graphics to force players to use both eyes to progress through the game. Lazy eye, which is also called amblyopia, is a condition that can develop in childhood and involves visual impairment in one […]
Nathan Yau over FlowingData looked at all the daily double placements over all 31 seasons of this historic game show and worked out an average to where the daily doubles usually fall on Jeopardy. We are not saying you use this chart and get on Jeopardy you could leave a millionaire. We are telling you […]
Do you ever find yourself wondering why your jeans are blue? Are they sad? Are they attempting to match someone’s eyes? Like all good things, there is science and chemistry behind the whole thing that will have you looking at your jeans in a whole different light. Keep in mind, they will still be blue, […]
A quick and simple explanation on why we only see one side of the moon for Earth. [MinuteEarth]
After drinking a few glasses of water on a hot day, you might be struck with a sudden … urge. Behind that feeling are two bean-shaped organs that work as fine-tuned internal sensors. Emma Bryce details how the incredible kidneys balance the amount of fluid in your body, detect waste in your blood, and know […]
I look at the Photomath app, and I get very sad. Not that it will make future generations stupid or any such nonsense. No, I am mad that it didn’t exist while I struggled through algebra. That was essentially a semester I spent barely treading water, and knowing this would exist one day would’ve eased […]
So there is a ‘thing’ going around the interwebz right now about mixing coke with milk and what happens as a result. I, myself, am not sure it is something I would ever want to do, but apparently it is the “Coke and Mentos” of 2015. It is a reaction of the Phosphoric Acid contained […]
Over the past 24 hours, people have been raging madly on my Facebook feed about the color of a dress. I just couldn’t believe it. All I saw was a white and gold dress, but apparently, plenty of people saw it as black and blue. So if you’re wondering about what the truth is, here’s […]
When many of us think about the black plague which ravaged much of Europe on the 14th century, we associate it with scurrying, nasty, dirty little rats. The truth, as it turns out, shows that we are just a bit off. Seems the real culprit may have been some (decidedly less creepy looking) gerbils. According […]
Everybody is talking about Measles – but what does the virus actually do in the body? Is it really so harmful that you need a vaccination? We go deep into the body of an infected person and see what Measles does and how the immune system reacts to it! [Kurz Gesagt – In a Nutshell]