The total number of people who’ve been born… ever.

With three common houseplants.

Something you can do today while sitting on your couch.

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They describe it as a “Mouthbrush,” which is pretty damn accurate. Available in both right and left handed options. 

Use these tricks in your daily life

The only story about earwax that you’ll hopefully read today.

Humanity.

Apparently kids these days are going to live 5 years shorter than their parents.

Designed to Move is a website about it

via, doobybrain

The Ostrich Pillow.

An enigma to most

The Director of the Center for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory makes a good case for it.

(Gonna have to resonate on this late tonight)

In 2 minutes

A short film by Cyrus Sutton “about having fun in a less than perfect world.”

Count the amount of fingers between the sun and the horizon, each finger is roughly 15 minutes.

via, lifehacker / groovy matter

Massive.

Watch a history of the Sutro Baths after the jump

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All shapes and sizes

via, gawker

This past Saturday, a medium-sized solar flare erupted on the sun. Today at around 11 am on the East Coast, the weak wave of plasma and charged particles will approach the Earth’s atmosphere. “Polar geomagnetic storms are possible.”

“If you thought Jimi Hendrix was cool, you were probably down with us” – Zephyr

“SUNSHINE REBELS tells the story of a clan of inner-city teenagers who in the 1970′s came together in New York City’s Central Park and in the process left an indelible stamp on world culture through startling innovations in street art, alternative music and extreme sports.”