While reading Thomas Holliday’s Otherlands, I wanted to know if there were any animations of the Zanclean Flood, and found this video on youtube.
Zanclean Flood
Category: Science
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
Eclipse
Seeing totality with the 2017 eclipse was awesome. https://xkcd.com/2914/
Lightning
Continental Drift
This animation from the Open Culture site shows the development of modern continents starting with the Pangea super-continent.
Hummingbirds
An lone restoration of a vintage catalog of hummingbirds from Open Culture.
xkcd: Degree-Off
http://xkcd.com/1520/
Source: xkcd: Degree-Off
Google Flu Trends
Does it seem like a lot of people are complaining about being sick? What do you know: the flu is worse this year according to Google Flu Trends.
Journey to the Center of the World
The Big Pictures shows photographs documenting an active volcano in Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World.
Tinnitus: “Ringing in the Ears” Actually Goes Much Deeper Than That
This Discover article, The Brain: “Ringing in the Ears” Actually Goes Much Deeper Than That discusses current research on tinnitus, which evidently occurs in the brain, not the ear.