Category Funny Bone

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Anima-Toons: Koala Caper – Breaking Under

Could a team of Koalas be masterful drug lord criminals to put Breaking Bad Walter White and Jesse to shame? Well, no, that’s probably not in the cards for these daily 20 hour sleepers, but these animals could tamper with…

Carcinization: Evolution’s Favorite Shape is Crab

Evolution is a very complicated field – and one of the bigger long-standing questions is crabs! Specifically, why animals keep evolving into them! The phenomenon of animals, or specifically crustaceans, evolving into a crab-like shape has occurred so often it…

Why the tiny arms?

Why are small arms better? A question bugging palentologists for years: Why did T. Rex evolve to have short arms? Why was it beneficial for them to have shorter arms? Intuitively, one might think that longer forelimbs would be much…

Unusual Units of Measurement

Unusual Units of Measurement As early as kindergarten, we are taught to measure things here in the U.S. using inches, feet, and centimeters. Later we are taught that volume is measured in cubic meters (m^3), and that time is measured…

Neuromyths: What We Know, and What We Think We Know

Neuroscience is an ancient subject, but a very young science.  What I mean by that is, while people have been fascinated with the concepts relating to the mind and consciousness for as long as we have recorded records, the scientific,…

That sounds fishy…

While scrolling somewhere in the interwebs, I saw a post someone had made about trying to hold their breath during action movies whenever the characters went under water, to see how realistic/unrealistic the scenes really are. Someone responded with a…