Amanda Ogle December 10, 2018 Share this article Forest bathing: It’s more about mental and physical restoration than it is shampoo and rubber duckies. Amanda Ogle dips her toes into this Japanese-born phenomenon. I’m holding a sprig of cedar and a small note in my hand as I stand at the edge of a dense […]
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How to Have a Drink at 1,588 Feet in the Highest Hotel Bar on Earth
How to Have a Drink at Ozone: The Highest Hotel Bar in the World Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they […]
Samsung’s 860 QVO brings multi-terabyte SSDs down to Earth
To date, buying a multi-terabyte solid-state drive has usually meant paying through the nose. It hasn’t been uncommon to spend $ 1,000 or more to get a drive with capacity matching hard disks costing far less. That gap hasn’t completely closed yet, but it’s getting much narrower — Samsung has unveiled its promised multi-terabyte SSD […]
A ‘dark matter’ hurricane that we can’t see or hear is blasting past Earth, and it’s one of the universe’s biggest conundrums
A fast hurricane of dark matter is approaching Earth at 310 miles per second, according to astronomers. Very little is known about this occurrence, since the lightweight dark matter can’t be seen nor felt. Scientists can only prove that the dark matter exists based on the movement and placement of a stellar stream, which has […]
Visiting South Africa? Don't Miss the Most Botanically Biodiverse Place on Earth
A tiny, iridescent orange-breasted sunbird vies with a pair of larger Cape sugarbirds for the nectar buried in the fist-sized crimson blooms of the suikerbossie, aka sugarbush. A few yards away, on the banks of a cola-colored stream, a forest of marsh butterfly lilies and their foot-long golden flower spikes sways pendulously in the breeze. […]
Why does flat Earth belief still exist?
Reality vs. belief about the shape of the Earth. Click for a full transcript. There’s no shortage of strange beliefs out there, and not all of them involve having a firm grip on reality. But it’s truly bizarre to see one from the latter camp have a sudden surge in popularity and attention millennia after […]
Why the Search for Aliens Could Unite Us Here on Earth
Jill Tarter and Maggie Turnbull discuss Trappist-1, the Fermi paradox, and Fast Radio Bursts at Wired25 https://media.wired.com/photos/5bc91673ac2ca0419fb3c21f/master/pass/W25SAT-JillTarter-MargaretTurnbull-AmyLombard-w.jpg
Unlike Some Automakers, BMW’s Keeping Its Visions of the Future in (Very) Low Earth Orbit
A big question mark hanging over the auto industry concerns the rate of electric vehicle adoption, but BMW — unlike some of its rivals — isn’t prone to wild predictions about the public’s enthusiasm for clean, green EVs. Despite rolling out a global plan earlier this year for 25 plug-in hybrid or electric vehicles by […]
The Good Place Season 3 Premiere Recap: Earth Lives Ain't Easy
All four humans are back on Earth as The Good Place kicks off Season 3… so where the fork do they go from here? Thursday’s one-hour premiere begins with a flashback to Michael explaining his “experiment” to a less-than-amused “Doorman” (played by Glee alum Mike O’Malley) before he’s allowed to pass through a magical golden portal […]
Asteroid the size of Great Giza Pyramid making a ‘close approach’ to Earth
An asteroid listed as “potentially hazardous” by NASA and estimated to be about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza is hurtling toward Earth at 20,000 mph – but don’t cancel your end-of-August plans just yet. The giant space rock, known as 2016 NF23, measures between 230ft and 525ft in diameter and is expected […]