Pocket Archive: Inspiration & Cool Stuff

We can’t see them, but they are all around us. On us. In us. Our personal microbes have us outnumbered by orders of magnitude, but scientists are only beginning to understand how they influence our health and other aspects of our lives. It’s an increasingly hot area of science, though, and this past year saw lots of interesting developments. Here are some of the highlights.

Beth Moon, a photographer based in San Francisco, has been searching for the world’s oldest trees for the past 14 years. She has traveled all around the globe to capture the most magnificent trees that grow in remote locations and look as old as the world itself.

Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko go on record: “Korrasami is canon.”

Night was once the only thing that put the human agenda on hold.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Arcadia could bring a world of new apps to Windows

There are moments that will stay with you, words that will stick. You cannot let these define you – they were simply moments, they were simply words.

Richard Dawkins reads from his book 'Unweaving the Rainbow'"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because...

People who do this experience a feeling of euphoria. And this happiness "high" has tremendous health benefits, as well.

By Claire Boyce