Everyone wants to know if they’re compatible with their significant other. Let’s face it…we all want to know if the person we are with is the person we’re meant to be with. Well, the comparison between your zodiac sign and your partners could be the missing link, or the answer you were looking for.

Astrological Signs:

Your Astrological sign, also known as your sun sign, or star sign, references the position of the sun in your horoscope at the moment of your birth. The complete horoscope includes the planets, the astrological houses, and the angles between planets.

Compatibility Between Signs:

Each sign has its own set of characteristics. For instance, Gemini’s are often associated with quick wittedness and expressiveness, while Virgos’ are associated with modesty and reliability.

Compatibility predictions require the full horoscope birth charts of the individuals who are involved.

Before you get too overly invested keep in mind that a comparison between your zodiac signs is not perfectly precise. Instead, it gives a general sense and some general clues. Continue reading →

 In 2012 the U.S Department of Agriculture states that the average American consumed 71.2 pounds of red meaty and 54.1 pounds of poultry. It is now the norm for people to have meat with every one of their daily meals, but past generations survived by eating meat just once or twice a week.

This over consumption and dependence on meat has lead researchers to ask the question: Are human beings actually meant to be herbivores? This thought stems from the damage that meat processing does to our environment and bodies.

Humans:

1. We chew side to side. Similar to other herbivores like cows, and unlike omnivores who cannot break down their food this way.

2. Bad Cholesterol only comes from eating animal-based products.

3. Human’s tongues don’t have fat or meat receptors. This means that we cannot taste much of anything when we eat raw meat. We do taste salt and plant seasonings, but neither of those are animal products.

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Loneliness is an encompassing, entrapping and all consuming feeling. It’s like a spiral of darkness you can’t pull yourself out of, someone else needs to be the one to do it. The feeling of connectivity is why we’re all here, to experience life together.

Research from Brigham Young University is showing that the feeling of loneliness and isolation are just as bad as smoking 15 cigarettes, and is a major threat to our longevity.

The lead author of the study remarks that “We need to start taking our social relationships more seriously.”

Being lonely and isolating yourself socially are two very different things. You can be in a crowd of people and still feel alone, yet others will physically isolate themselves because they want to be alone. The health effects of both scenarios still produce the same thing.

The likelihood of feeling lonely is actually greater in young people than in the older generations. As our society is littered with distraction, social media and things that are suppose to connect us, we are more disconnected than ever.

Tim Smith, a co-author of the study notes that, “Not only are we at the highest recorded rate of living alone across the entire century, but we’re at the highest recorded rates ever on the planet,” Continue reading →

Did birds look similar to how they do now 99 million years ago? Most people would assume no, but this recent finding is proving otherwise! When it was first found that feathers could survive fossilization, it turned everything upside down. It was assumed that only hard tissue like cartilage and bone could survive for millions of years.

A recent paper published in Nature Communications, discovered that two bird wings had been preserved in non other than amber! These wings date back to a staggering 99 million years old – so how is this possible?! Previous findings said that wings are preserved in 2 dimensions, like the bone and soft tissue. An odd feather or two had been found in fossilized amber before, but an entire intact wing like this is unheard of!

It has been found in the Burmese amber deposits which date to the mid-Cretaceous. Within these amber deposits, there are been an array of different bugs, flora and animals that have all been perfectly preserved. This tree resin has allowed things like entire lizards to stay frozen in time, over millions of years.

Maciej Winiarczuk was quite surprised when he managed to successfully capture the light show he’s been trying to film for the past three years. An Aurora Borealis lapse of the Milky Way occurred and it is absolutely stunning!

Better known as the Northern Lights, named after the Roman Goddess of dawn, Aurora, as well as Boreas, the Roman God of the wind.  For ages, this occurrence has fascinated humankind. Where does it stem from?

Starting with our own star, the sun, solar wind is the primary cause. The sun ejects particles of plasma which usually bypass our planet as the earth’s magnetic filed deflects them. This however pulls the plasma to the poles. Particles like Nitrogen, Oxygen and Hydrogen collide with these solar winds, causing these marveling colorful appearances throughout the sky.

Depending on what you seek, they occur year round, but April-August possess the longest days throughout the year, making them less visible. Most frequent during Autumn and Spring, September and March are usually their peak season. Winter can also be a great opportunity – the nights are longer and darker, this makes the colors really pop against a satin sky. Bare in mind, you are never guaranteed a show. The weather dictates this.

Thank you to The Rain Forest Site for this magnificent footage.

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