This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit
Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, uses “chip grafting” to create trees that each bear 40 different varieties of stone fruits, or fruits with pits.
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How Blind People See Beauty
Can you see beauty around you?
From DNA to Silly Putty, the diverse world of polymers
You are made of polymers, and so are trees and telephones and toys. A polymer is a long chain of identical molecules (or monomers) with a range of useful properties, like toughness or stretchiness — and it turns out, we just can’t live without them. Polymers occur both naturally — our DNA is a polymer — and synthetically, like plastic, Silly Putty and styrofoam. Jan Mattingly explains how polymers have changed our world.
Ridiculous things that people believed as Kids (17 pictures)
Funny and bizarre selection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were kids. It will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts.
Sumo Wrestling – Japan’s most beloved traditional sport
Girth, grit and training can bring victory in Japan’s most beloved traditional sport. Sumo wrestling dates back to Shinto ceremonies more than 1,000 years old; its traditions dictate everything from pre-show rituals to the wrestlers’ diet.