penguingirl's tumbling thoughts

Effective practicing is an art.

Bitcoin itself may fail as a currency, but the underlying technology is beginning to suggest valuable new applications.

The Twitter co-founder, Evan Williams, reflects on what the social media service has wrought on society and how he is trying to change things with Medium, the publishing site.

It’s not every day one stumbles upon a 400 pound whale heart, but when you do, you put that shit in a museum. Thankfully, that’s exactly what the folks at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) did when they uncovered a dead blue whale in Newfoundland back in 2014. Since then, biologist Jacqueline Miller and her team at ROM have been working tirelessly to put the massive organ on display, and today, they finally did just that.

Using data from The Neighborhood Archive, Owen Phillips charted the color of every sweater Mister Rogers wore on his PBS televis

Peter Kidd, curator of

Governments around the world were slow to get to grips with HIV/AIDS. But a big change came when they started understanding it not just as a health issue but as a security threat too. Alexandra Ossola investigates.

It seems like everything on this trash planet is doomed to go extinct before humans do, much to my chagrin. The woeful tale of New Zealand’s yellow-eyed penguin is no different: the adorable bird—which even makes an appearance on the country’s currency—is dangerously close to extinction, at least at one well-monitored mainland breeding ground. And it’s (probably) all our fault.

It can help you process information more effectively.

Letting loose an obscenity can make you exercise harder and endure pain better. What other powers could four-letter words have?

Soaring revenue and cash flow, plus intentionally tiny profits.

You can work full time but not have the money to fix your teeth – visible reminders of the divide between rich and poor.

In 2014, Starbucks and ASU created a new way to get a college degree with zero college tuition debt. See how your support of Starbucks makes it possible.

Korean barista Kangbin Lee has introduced a delicious new art form called 'Creamart,' using coffee creamer to draw beautiful pictures in coffee.

Artificial intelligence could dramatically improve the economy and aspects of everyday life, but we need to invent ways to make sure everyone benefits.

Grab me up a bag of cement, and a bucket of paint, and make it snappy.

Sperm need calcium ions to drill into an egg and fertilize it. Compounds that muck up ion transport could create a new class of male birth control.