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Congratz America, you’re an outlier.
Relatively Interesting - It seems that if you plot the belief in evolution versus national wealth, the United States of America is an outlier – by a long shot. The graph shows the % of adults that...
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Behind the brands you buy at the grocery store
Relatively Interesting - You just went shopping at the grocery store and picked up some Tropicana Orange Juice, Doritos and Rold Gold pretzels, a box of Life cereal, a bag of Spitz sunflower seeds, and...
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Meet the Electric Eel: Nature’s Taser
Relatively Interesting - First thing’s first, the electric eel is not an eel but is actually a variety of knifefish (related to catfish) found in the muddy rainforest waters of South America. Secondly,...
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Here’s why you should never trust a map.
Relatively Interesting - You have been lied to your entire life. Every map that you’ve ever looked at (which uses the Mercator projection, anyways) gives a false impression of a country’s actual size....
View ArticleElon Musk’s Revolutionary Home Battery
Relatively Interesting - March 30, 2015: Elon Musk, billionaire entrepreneur and celebrity of western nerdom, sent out a teaser Tweet: “Major new Tesla product line — not a car — will be unveiled at...
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How the Panama Canal Works
Relatively Interesting - The Panama Canal, built from 1881-1914 (with the French trying first, then Americans), connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, taking only 20 or 30 hours for ships to...
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Maho Beach: Enjoy the thrilling view of planes landing directly overhead
Relatively Interesting - Where in the world can you sunbathe, swim, sip cocktails, and enjoy the thrilling view of an airplane as it comes in for a landing just a few feet over your head? Maho Beach,...
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Eye Myths: Fact or Fiction?
Relatively Interesting - Reading this, no matter how close you sit to the screen, can cause nothing more than eyestrain and possible neck pain. Contrary to what our parents may have told us growing up,...
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Pseudoscience and conspiracy theory are not victimless crimes against science
Relatively Interesting - Eduardo Nicolas Schulz, University of Birmingham News of anti-vaxxer movements, demands to teach creationism in schools as science, and dubious claims for the health-giving...
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Our One and Only Pale Blue Dot
Relatively Interesting - Set to the words of Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot is an animation that situates human history against the tapestry of the cosmos. Using a eclectic combination of art styles woven...
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How Mining the Moon Could Work
Relatively Interesting - Across history, human development has relied upon the finite resources available on Earth. But the moon – a seemingly barren rock – may actually be a treasure trove of rare...
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Earth’s 6th Mass Extinction Has Begun, New Study Confirms
Relatively Interesting - James Dyke, University of Southampton We are currently witnessing the start of a mass extinction event the likes of which have not been seen on Earth for at least 65 million...
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50 Facts About Your Largest Organ: Your Skin
Relatively Interesting - The largest organ in the human body is the one you can see most easily: the skin. The skin is considered an organ because it has very specific functions — like maintaining body...
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12 Amazing Women of Science
Relatively Interesting - Imagine what the world’s progress could be if 50% of the human population was not suppressed throughout history… Where could we be today? Here are just 12 amazing women who...
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The pacific ocean is so big that…
Relatively Interesting - … No, it’s not a “momma” joke, because that wouldn’t be appropriate for a website like this. But the Pacific Ocean really is huge. So huge, in fact, that you could fit all of...
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Cloning in Pop Culture – What’s the Reality?
Relatively Interesting - “Our experiences have told us that, with a little work, we humans can clone just about anything we want, from frogs to sheep—and probably even ourselves.” Not true. According...
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So much sand, so many uses
Relatively Interesting - Who knew sand could be so interesting? Typically, we tend to only care or think about sand when it’s beneath our feet as we’re relaxing on the beach soaking in the Sun’s rays....
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How Many Times Can You Really Fold a Piece of Paper in Half?
Relatively Interesting - A popular myth exists that one can only fold a single piece of paper in half, seven, maybe eight times at most. To squelch this popular myth, the folks over at Mythbusters did...
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Optical Illusions: How Our Eyes Trick Our Brains
Relatively Interesting - Over 50% of the cortex, the large outer layer of the brain, is devoted to vision. Optical illusions illustrate that the mind makes assumptions about the world – it is the...
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El Nino, La Nina, and Chris Farley
Relatively Interesting - Every three to seven years, variations in tropical winds and pressure shift warm ocean water east to the South American coast causing an El Nino event. 2015 is one of those...
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