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Aussie Rules Football
How many times have you walked away from Monday Night Football musing, "If only this game were more violent..." Meet Australian Rules...
Read & DiscussDodgeball
Anyone who remembers childhood as a time of innocence and joy was never on the wrong side of a dodgeball. If you ever packed a few extra...
Read & DiscussEco-Gym
Chances are you go to the gym because it makes you feel good. But nothing kills that post-workout buzz like contemplating the environmental...
Read & DiscussSatellites
There are more than 3,000 satellites orbiting earth. While we go about our daily lives, these contraptions are hard at work in our...
Read & DiscussThe Hidden Cost of War
In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10...
Read & DiscussSalar de Uyuni
With an area about the size of New Jersey, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat is known as the flattest place on earth. So when NASA needs to...
Read & DiscussLords of the Rings
The Japanese have a yen for the gold medal in Judo. Fencing has been an idée fixe for the French. In honor of the XXIX Olympiad, we take a...
Read & DiscussRooftop Bees
With space at such a premium in Manhattan, New Yorkers are accustomed to thinking vertically when it comes to housing. Now bees are getting in...
Read & DiscussCambodian Sports
Decades of war and internal strife have left Cambodia with one of the highest proportions of people disabled by land mines in the world. The...
Read & DiscussUrban Aquaculture
Professor Martin Schreibman says our oceans have been overfished beyond repair. If we're going to keep eating fish and chips, tuna tartare,...
Read & DiscussLandmine Flowers
Scientists in Denmark have developed a plant that turns red when it comes into contact with trace amounts of TNT. If sowed over an area...
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