Have the Chicago Bears and Caleb Williams turned the corner with new Offensive Coordinator Thomas Brown? Who will bolster their playoff case as Texas and Texas A&M face each other for the first time in 13 years? And how's the Heisman race shaping up? So many things to chew on and we...
1. True or false: Falcons have rounded wings and broad tails. False. Hawks have rounded wings and broad tails. Falcons have long, pointed wings and narrow tails. Read More: Hawk vs. Falcon: Spotting Differences Between Birds of Prey 2. What is the oldest known material formed on Earth?
HBO's "Game of Thrones" may have made dire wolves — or "direwolves," as the show spelled them — famous, but the show's "regular wolf but bigger" approach is quite different from the real thing. Dire wolves, you see, very much existed in the prehistoric times, though you might not...
“With no diaphragm, they rely entirely on motions of their ribs,” says John Capano (Brown University, USA), adding that the earliest snake ancestors must have overcome the challenge of breathing while squeezing and digesting dinner. But it wasn’t clear how modern snakes save themselves from...
could be transmuted into music the way sunlight transmutes chlorophyll giving life to all the plants," he says. "I've long been fascinated with the sun and the ways that we experience it. It's the source of our life. All life on Earth comes from the sun, and it's just a tremendous...
“If today is your last day, what will you do today?”You may still have a very long list to do, right? You may wish you can have plenty of time to finish the long list, however, you may not have enough time to finish everything today before today ends anyway. Have you ever ...
Not only have tardigrades existed since the Cambrian period 541 million years ago, but they may well go on to outlive us — and probably all other life on Earth, according to a 2017 paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. It found that if a cataclysmic event like an asteroid ...
If you can remember just one word of the title, use the search function on Goodreads or Library Thing to find long lists of titles with a particular word. Goodreads’ browse-able lists of titles that readers have shelved in unique categories, such as authors’ professions or decades of publi...
For a really long time after College, I kept paint and canvases at arms length. They are seriously expensive and I felt they were an unnecessary luxury for me to have, so I just stuck to sketchbooks. I doodled on and off, many times my doodles were pointless notes of how I wanted ...
"* The idea that Morgoth disposed of a 'host' of Balrogs endured long, but in a late note my father said that only very few ever existed - 'at most seven'." BoLT2, The Fall of Gondolin This seemingly direct statement, published in 1984, shaped the common idea that Balrogs were ...