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• A Japanese study finally explains in detail how cats almost always land on their feet, and the secret lies in a very specific, flexible part of their spine
• Albert Einstein, scientist: “Education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school”
• The diet of hunter-gatherers in Europe thousands of years ago was far more varied, rich, and appetizing than we had been led to believe for decades
• A 333-meter aircraft carrier and a missile destroyer arrive in Panamanian waters with thousands of U.S. sailors, and the stop comes as Washington moves one of its most visible naval symbols through Latin America
• What appeared to be a simple “snot” toy that captivated children in the 1980s and 1990s was, in fact, a fluid that stretches, wrinkles, and hardens, and is capable of behaving like both a liquid and a solid at the same time
• Psychology asserts that children of the 1960s and 1970s did not become emotionally strong thanks to better parenting, but because they grew up with enough daily neglect to learn to self-regulate, solve problems on their own, and develop a resilience that modern comforts make difficult to build
• If spiders suddenly disappeared from Earth, the initial relief many people would feel would be short-lived, as the ecological and biological void they would leave behind would be quite severe
• After 14 years in space, a NASA probe is about to return to Earth in the least graceful way possible, but there is no real cause for alarm
• For the first time, scientists have managed to restore electrical activity in a frozen mouse brain, and that single sentence is enough to spark curiosity, a sense of wonder, and many questions
• Stephen Hawking, scientist: “I don’t think humanity will survive the next thousand years, at least not without expanding into space”