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In this video i breakdown the kemetic tree of life, Including the gods, what they represent, and how it relates to our current struggle. I would highly recommend the …

This year we pushed the boundaries of science to new extremes. We saw new levels of supercomputer performance, peeled the plastic off the biggest telescope and solar plant on earth, did the first-ever spectroscopy on antimatter, and even made liquid light. To start with, we put spinners on the world’s …

Science fiction lost one of the pioneers of the kick-ass woman when Carrie Fisher passed away on Tuesday. Sure there were plenty of tough women before Princess Leia was introduced to the world in 1977 in Star Wars, but no one did it better. She was feisty, headstrong, and even though …

Photo: Twenty20 It’s a holiday tradition to make a list of all the goals you want to accomplish in the New Year: Lose weight. Mediate more. Eat more chia seeds. But it’s almost become a national pastime to diss our collective aspirations. Your sister snidely remarks, “You’re going to train …

The FTC is playing whack-a-mole with pseudoscience again, and this time it’s targeting homeopathy. Their latest comments contend (PDF) that the standard disclaimer isn’t enough to dissuade consumers from buying this crap, so now not only do homeopathic products have to carry the standard disclaimer, they also have to say …

NASA has a new giphy channel, and it’s like drinking from a fire hose of win. The whole page is crammed full of things that immediately made me open a new browser tab and start googling — which, as a scientist, curious person, space enthusiast, and all-around nerd, I consider …

Photo: Pond5 In today’s fast-paced world, we’re all looking for quick ways to take charge of our health. That’s probably why biohackers are willing to drink butter for breakfast in the name of superhuman energy and… fat loss? And why the Quantified Self movement — or the practice of studying …

BuzzFeed has a new vice president leading its data science team. Gilad Lotan has a long résumé in the field, having most recently served as chief data scientist at New York-based startup studio Betaworks, and before that working in data-related roles at SocialFlow, Microsoft and Endemol. Publisher Dao Nguyen told …

The idea of a “science toy” sort of breaks down below a certain age. A toddler who cannot yet read does not need a scientific calculator, for example, and even the most science-oriented second-grader might struggle to make it through the collected works of Stephen Hawking. If you’ve got a …