分类目录归档：body
In the space that used to house one transistor,
we can now fit one billion.
That made it so that a computer the size of an entire room
now fits in your pocket.
You might say the future is small.
As an
Here's a question for you:
how many different scents do you think you can smell,
and maybe even identify with accuracy?
100?
300?
1,000?
One study estimates that humans can detect up to one trillion d
I'm quite comfortable sitting here.
Don't get me wrong,
my heart's beating so loud I'm surprised you can't hear it.
There's a lightness in my head,
and my hand is a little sweaty.
Luckily, I'm not onl
[SHAPE YOUR FUTURE]
(Slam) Ow!
As anyone who’s stubbed a toe in the dark
or spent an hour searching for their keys knows
we're often limited by what we can or cannot see.
In fact, even our own bodies
In 1962, a cave explorer named Michel Siffre
started a series of experiments where he isolated himself underground for months
without light or clocks.
He attached himself to electrodes that monitored
Look at your hand.
How do you know it's really yours?
It seems obvious, unless you've experienced the rubber hand illusion.
In this experiment, a dummy hand is placed in front of you
and your real han
Hunger claws at your grumbling belly.
It tugs at your intestines, which begin to writhe, aching to be fed.
Being hungry generates a powerful, often unpleasant physical sensation
that's almost impossi
A pungent blend of onions, cheese, and cat urine with hints of...
is that…wet goat?
Most of us don’t need more than one whiff
to identify that generally unpleasant, characteristic smell we call body
Cigarettes aren’t good for us.
That’s hardly news--we’ve known about the dangers of smoking for decades.
But how exactly do cigarettes harm us?
Let’s look at what happens as their ingredients
make t
In the summer of 1895, crowds flooded the Coney Island boardwalk
to see the latest marvel of roller coaster technology:
the Flip Flap Railway.
This was America’s first-ever looping coaster
– but its