Here’s What Actually Happens on a Plane Between Flights

Time in between flights can be crucial for an airline. The longer ground crews and flight attendants take to turn around a plane for the next flight, the angrier departing passengers get. Not to mention that airlines have razor-thin profit margins, which is why each little penny or second of time saved is paramount to … Read the rest

Do Pets Enjoy Dressing Up for Halloween?

Each Halloween, social media becomes congested with pictures of people’s furry companions decked out in capes, caps, wings, and other Halloween flair. A Labradoodle is adorable to begin with. Put him in a bee costume and people melt.

But look closely at some of these photos. In the pet’s eyes you might see a note … Read the rest

‘It Is Pure Hell Here’: Videos From Bahamas Show Devastation Left by Hurricane Dorian as Category 5 Storm Heads Toward US Coast

Videos posted online late Sunday and early Monday provided the first glimpse of the scale of destruction Hurricane Dorian—a historic Category 5 storm—left in its wake in the Bahamas as it slowly moves toward the southeastern coast of the United States, forcing nearly a million residents of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas to evacuate.

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Robert Downey Jr. Was Once Busted For Smoking Weed At Disneyland

Robert Downey Jr. joins Andrew Garfield as Marvel superheroes who love getting high at Disneyland. Robert Downey Jr. has reinvented himself as a family-friendly, franchise-behemoth superstar over the past decade, thanks to playing the role of Iron Man in various Marvel movies. To commemorate this success, Disney bestowed Downey the honor of becoming a “Disney … Read the rest

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Why a US city is searching for mass graves

Nearly 100 years ago, a white mob destroyed an American neighborhood called “Black Wall Street,” murdering an estimated 300 people in Tulsa, Oklahoma. That incident — known as the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — has been largely left out of US history books. Today, a century later, the city still has a lot of questions. … Read the rest

How to build a solar microscope

How to build a solar microscope. Today, we take for granted the instruments that let us look at tiny things in great detail. But back in the 18th century, the microscope was the hottest party trick in town.

Back in those days, English intellectuals would throw friendly social gatherings known as science parties. In genteel

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How to tell if your computer has been tampered with

Whether you’re in an open office where colleagues regularly wander past, or live somewhere—like a college dorm—where you may feel comfortable leaving your laptop unattended in the presence of relative strangers, it can be all too easy for someone else to sneak a look at your computer.

If you want to keep your device secure

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