30 meters above the Ocean.
Lake Sorvagsvatn, located in the Faroe Islands between Norway and Iceland.
| April 13, 2015
30 meters above the Ocean.
Category: Geek
Qapla’! Duolingo will soon teach Klingon on its language-learning platform
| April 12, 2015
In loving memory of Leonard Nimoy who passed away earlier this year, it may be, ahem, logical to revisit old episodes of ‘Star Trek’ or brush up on your Klingon skills. tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhbe’ you say? Thankfully, Duolingo‘s here to help.
The app known for gamifying the language-learning process has announced that it will now help users learn how to speak Klingon thanks to its Language Incubator program.
A Towering Home in the Alaskan Wilderness Looks Like Something Right out of a Dr. Seuss Book
| April 11, 2015
As the story goes, the original owner of this unwieldy building located in Willow, Alaska built his house shortly after a forest fire with a clear view of Mount McKinley and Denali National Park. As the surrounding trees recovered, the pristine view was obscured and the owner decided to add few more stories, eventually spending a decade adding floors until it reached the 12-ish story tower you see today. Not surprisingly, locals refer to the building as the “Dr. Seuss House” as the design so closely mimics structures you might see in Theodor Geisel’s illustrated storybooks.
Every square centimetre of your face houses one or two tiny spiders.
| April 11, 2015
Consider the skin on your face. As smooth and peachy as it may look, every square centimetre houses around one or two “demodex spiders”. They mostly lie low, but once you’re asleep they crawl across your face to mate and lay eggs in your pores. Don’t feel too disgusted, though – in return for their food and lodging, these spiders clean away some of the harmful bacteria that might cause a dangerous infection.
The Millionaire Baseball Pitcher that Lives in a #Volkswagen Camper Van
| April 10, 2015
Daniel Norris signed a bonus worth just over $2 million to join the Blue Jays organization out of high school.
A self-driving car just made a 3,400 mile drive across the USA
| April 8, 2015
An autonomous car just drove across the country. Nine days after leaving San Francisco, a blue car packed with tech from a company you’ve probably never heard of rolled into New York City after crossing 15 states and 3,400 miles to make history. The car did 99 percent of the driving on its own, yielding to the carbon-based life form behind the wheel only when it was time to leave the highway and hit city streets.
This amazing feat, by the automotive supplier Delphi, underscores the great leaps this technology has taken in recent years, and just how close it is to becoming a part of our lives. Yes, many regulatory and legislative questions must be answered, and it remains to be seen whether consumers are ready to cede control of their cars, but the hardware is, without doubt, up to the task.
