NatGeo’s Weirdest Animal Stories of 2017

End of year lists can sometimes be predictable or simply dull, but that’s never the case with National Geographic’s Weird Animal Stories, which amazes and delights every year. From a lioness nursing a baby leopard in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area to a cardinal feeding a goldfish, an anaconda squeezing her mate to death and more, these tales prove that Mother Nature is just as magic …

NASA Discovered The Most Distant Black Hole

The farthest known supermassive black hole has just been discovered—and the “matter-eating beast” is some 800 million times the mass of the Sun. Because it grew to an immense size just 690 million years after the Big Bang, it’s challenging beliefs about how black holes are formed. Not only that, but this discovery will also be crucial for finding out more about the entire universe …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Colette's swan song, mining in space, the worst sex scenes in literature and more

1. Classes on Mining in Space At the Colorado School of Mines’ Center for Space Resources, a new class called Space Resources Fundamentals is underway, the first-ever academic program specializing in space mining. Christopher Dreyer teaches the course, which is presently in a test run, though potentially slated again for summer 2018. The class covers things like the Outer Space Treaty, which was developed by …