You might think 30 seconds is pretty short. Your body doesn't though. In order to keep everything running, there's a lot of things going on in those 30 seconds. Like you'll make 72 million red blood cells! And shed 174,000 skin cells! And have 25 thoughts. The human body, what an amazing piece of machinery. [BuzzFeed Video] Read More >>
Featured comment by Hrusai:
"the human body contains about 250 grams of ATP, and turns over its own body weight equivalent in ATP each day
for reference ATP is the bodies energ..." More »
Prepare to be grossed out. You know how you go to the bathroom every day, cut your nails every few weeks and cut your hair every month? Did you ever think about what all that totals up to? What about all those times you've cried or drooled or worked up a sweat? It adds up to an embarrassing amount of fluid! Read More >>
Jiggle. Blubber. Bounce. Gravity's a bitch. It's especially unforgiving if you jump up and down naked while getting filmed at 2000FPS. That sort of slow motion camera work exposes all the extra meat we carry on our bodies. LA video artist Michael Haussman captured naked people in slow motion to show you what you're missing. Read More >>
Ever wondered why your fingers and toes magically look like a wrinkly prunes when you're in the bath? Apparently it's all to do with gripping slippery objects. Oh, and it's nothing to do with absorbing water, either. Read More >>
Featured comment by Vedder:
"I seriously don't understand this. My science teacher told me why our feet and hands go wrinkly well over 20 years ago. Why has it suddenly become n..." More »
Human beings, I love ya, but man are we disgusting. This video by Aaron Rogers lists and animates all the scientific grossness of being a human and it gets pretty gnarly. Like how many hot tubs our saliva can fill and what our eye boogers are made from and all the other nasty stuff that comes with our human body. It's an eye opener. [Vimeo] Read More >>
Using a Panasonic GH2, Dutch filmmaker Jeroen Wolf captured people ranging from 1 year young to 100 years old. It's simple—the person stares at the camera at states their age—yet incredibly touching to see the growth and experience you earn as the years add up. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"Reminds me of the "Noah Everyday" video on youtube. Starts in 2000 and ends in 2006 but apparently he's still doing the photos, they're upon his blog...." More »
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"Reminds me of a Textbook we had when I was studying French at school. Part of the book had a picture of a cow in a field with a speech bubble saying "..." More »
Simple -- evolution of course. But new research now suggests that the reason humans and apes don’t look alike in the face is down to facial expressions. We have plain faces, without varying colour and with less hair poking out everywhere, because it helps us track the complex facial contortions we use for communication. Read More >>
Featured comment by Magic Robot:
"Maybe so... but I know people who look like furniture or cars even, Monkeys and Apes also. Remember Phil Cool?... he could do a very believable liknes..." More »
The world's 7 billionth person was a tiny little girl named Danica May Camacho who was born today in Manila, the Philipines, and weighed just 5.5 pounds (she was one month premature). Read More >>
Featured comment by Vish:
"Hello, Great article Kristen. I'm Liking the slight eminem "The Real Slim Shady" bit going on there "Will the real 7 billionth baby please stand up? O..." More »
Do you know where you fit in chronologically with the seven billion or so human folk running around sweet Terra? BBC has a really cool tool that lets you plug in your birthday to get an approximation of which number human you were to sprout up on the planet. Read More >>
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