Enjoy the beautiful astro-timelapse video below.

Here is another one of my favorite TED videos.

Pamelia Kurstin excavates a dusty artifact from the prehistoric strata of electronic music, and demonstrates how to squeeze soul from an instrument you can't even touch.

Dan Lewis has a wonderful blog called "Now I Know", where he shares something interesting everyday.

Today I learned the truth about baby carrots.

Americans eat roughly 10 pounds of carrots each year. And we are willing to bet that most of those carrots are of the two-inch long, sold by the bag, baby variety. These popular crunchy snack items are ubiquitous, with some grocery stores carrying (literally) a ton of them. They are relatively new, appearing in stores only since the 1990s. What genetic legerdemain has provided us with this tiny vegetable?

None. Baby carrots are just regular carrots, whittled down into tiny, two-bite sizes.