Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.

An interactive review of the periodic table -- composed of 119 haiku

You’d better train your index finger before taking this challenge. Don’t hurt yourself. The 100 Meter Scroll is the brainchild of designer/developer Michael Vestergaard, and just could be the most fun thing you do today.

Take charge of a NLOS Cannon to destroy enemy targets with indirect fire. Learn about NLOS Cannons with the Cannon Challenge Game.

GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.

Summing up years of work in one sentence.

Poker players might call it the “tell” — it’s the idea that your body language tells your questioners if the words you’re saying are actually true or false. These subjects in a University of Chicago study on body language and lying were asked several general questions — and then told off camera to lie or tell the truth when answering. Can you tell truth from falsehood?

Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City was the densest place on the planet before it was torn down 20 years ago. In this Wall Street Journal interactive, you can take a trip through the city, explore its history and hear from the people who lived there.

Popular names follow a familiar cycle: They become increasingly common as new parents jump on the bandwagon, only to peak and decline as everyone on the playground starts answering to the same name. Some old standards lie dormant for half a century before gradually returning–hello, Evelyn. Others skyrocket and decline in a few years (that’s you, Miley).

Let the author and bartender Rosie Schaap make you a custom summer cocktail.

A ground-breaking milestone in the study of peace. For the first time, an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identifies some of the drivers of that peace.

No one ever really knows when they have had "one too many" but you may now at least have a chance to keep better track. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has created what they are calling the "cocktail content calculator" in an effort to let drinkers know just how much alcohol is in that drink they are about to gulp down.

Are you a movie fanatic? Prove it with this quiz!

Daily diets vary considerably around the world.

Real time stats about your life so far and the world around you

4Real creates 4 virtual worlds for Teengirl's fantasy new EP!

With so much focus in the publishing world on e-books, you might have missed the recent explosion in the popularity of audio books. They've become a billion-dollar industry with huge annual sales growth, in part because anyone with a smartphone can now also pocket an audio book. Alexandra Alter of the Wall Street Journal writes that the audio surge is changing the very way people read, "creating a new breed of literary omnivores who see narrated books and text as interchangeable."

Buckle up and ride a rocket through our interactive view of the Solar System to explore our cosmic neighbourhood

Amazon is set to open distribution centers at two large US colleges and offer students next-day delivery of textbooks and other items through co-branded websites. The universities of Massachusetts Amherst and Purdue say that the deal means students will save nearly $400 annually on textbooks. Amazon is also giving the schools a 0.5-2.5 percent cut, which will net at least $1.7 million in revenue for Purdue and $1.5 million...

Thundersnow and Weather Bombs: Unusual terms explained

During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class’s three female professors. “I think you need to see this,” she said, tapping the icon of a furry yak on her iPhone. The app opened, and the assistant began scrolling through the feed. While the professors had been lecturing about post-apocalyptic culture, some of the 230 or so freshmen in the auditorium had been having a separate conversation about...

A shocking amount of what we’re reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms. Can you tell the difference? Take the quiz.

Virtual reality is posed to become one of the next big things in the tech world, and YouTube is preparing itself for that future. The video hosting service announced today that it is starting to support 360-degree video uploads to allow for immersive video experiences. The video above is one of the first 360-degree videos available. Watch it in Google’s Chrome browser or through the YouTube app on Android for the full experience.

If museums face an uncertain future, you wouldn't know it from “Henri Matisse: The Cutouts,” which recently drew 664,000 to the Museum of Modern Art. The show was so thronged that MoMA kept its doors open round-the-clock on the closing weekend last month.

Google has opened the doors to Abbey Road Studios! Explore, discover and play inside the iconic British recording studio.

New York City's urban forest provides numerous environmental and social benefits, and street trees compose roughly one quarter of that canopy. This map shows the distribution and biodiversity of the city's street trees based on the last tree census.

From the album “Physical Graffiti”

Revolutionary technology sparks first official video for Bob Dylan's “Like a Rolling Stone”

“If you don't hear from me in 6 minutes, please call mommy or grab an axe and help me!”

Do Not Track, a personalized web series about privacy and the web economy. Directed by Brett Gaylor, coproduced by Upian, Arte, ONF & BR.

Computers mimic human reasoning by building on simple rules and statistical averages. Test your strategy against the computer in this rock-paper-scissors game illustrating basic artificial intelligence.

Ambient coffee shop sounds from all over the world (France, Germany, England and Netherlands) to give you an easy creative boost.

From a formula for Sod's Law provided by British Gas: ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10))

Draw a freehand circle, then analyze to see how close you got to a perfect circle

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