Fables tell us that it’s really stupid to build a house on sand. In reality, you can build your house on sand—as long as you live in a tectonically stable part of the world. If you don’t, an earthquake will turn the sand into quicksand, and as a consequence, it will turn your house into history.
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Dinosaurs! No. Blue whales! No? Pandas? Ha. It really depends on what you consider a thing and what’s not a thing. And what’s actually living and what’s not traditionally considered living but is. And what’s on Earth and what’s inside Earth. Because if we’re counting any sort of organisms, it could very well be mushrooms and trees that take the world’s biggest title. [MinuteEarth]
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It’s easy to forget that almost nothing you eat was grown remotely near you and plenty of it wasn’t even grown recently. And for that miracle of modern day life, we have gigantic metal plates, frozen to subzero temperatures to thank. Or at least that’s how it all started. More »
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