“Are you feeling virtuous about your healthy breakfast of wholegrain cereal washed down with a glass of orange juice? After all, it’s better than an artery-clogging fry-up. In terms of fat, at least. But few of us realize that a bowl of Bran Flakes plus juice will account for half our recommended daily amount of sugar. We all know the dangers of too much salt, fat and calories in our diet, but health professionals warn that not enough of us stop to consider our sugar intake… We set out to find out how much sugar is lurking in our favorite foods and drinks — including those many would consider healthy. The results, shown below, were shocking.” w/ photos

“The moon may be 1.3 light-seconds away, but why on earth do we measure distances using time?” — minutephysics

“The two photons… still a better love story than Twilight.” — leahyrainx

“Instead of concrete jungles could our cities become urban forests of wooden skyscrapers? Swapping cement and steel for timber is the vision of a number of environmentally-minded architects who are planning high-rise buildings across the world. Architect Michael Green has plans for a 30-story wooden skyscraper in Vancouver, while plans are afoot in Norway and Austria for 17- and 20-story buildings that use wood as the main building material, eschewing steel and concrete. “We think we can go higher than 30 stories,” says Green. “We stopped exploring wood around 100 years ago (with the advent of steel and concrete); now we’re looking at a whole new system using mass timber products.” w/ photos

“Eyes That Tell Stories’ is a photographic exhibition photographed and digitally edited by Jorg Sunderman for the Singapore Eye Research Institute. SERI is a non-profit charitable organization that aims to create awareness about eye research and conducts research into vision and eye diseases in Singapore. The project captured 14 well known people from Singapore ranging from a filmmaker, Olymipic swimmer, and news presenter, among others and shared each person’s story.” w/ photos + video

“Manson and I actually have similar thoughts on religion, religion is the tainted, disgusting, and manipulative form of something that was once pure and true. The church uses lies to gain trust. They use fear such as threats of an inferno if you do not worship them and god to maintain control and loyalty, after all these years, they ‘rewrote’ the bible to benefit themselves. I am a man of Faith, not religion, I feel like I can sit down and easily talk with Manson for hours about almost anything.” — LiveLetDie21

“You can eat them, melt them, play with them, sculpt them, age them, decorate them and name them. They are the subject of urban legends, Pinterest posts and craft contests and have been featured on ‘Good Morning America,’ ‘South Park’ and ‘Jeopardy,’ to name a few. They are Peeps, and they’ve evolved from a classic Easter candy to a beloved cult classic… But how did that happen? Time to find out.” w/ photos

“Did you know that Beer was critical to the birth of civilization? That’s right – Beer. Scientists and historians line up to tell the amazing, untold story of how beer helped create maths, poetry, Pyramids, modern medicine, labor laws and America.” — NLsko

“New videography techniques have opened up the oceans’ microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys has used footage from a pioneering project to create a film designed to ignite wonder and curiosity about this hidden world that underpins our own food chain.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a fast internet connection must be in want of some porn… While page views are a fine starting point, they only tell you that X porn site is more popular than Y non-porn site. Four billion page views sure sounds like a lot, but it’s only when you factor in what those porn surfers are actually doing that the size and scale of adult websites truly comes into focus. We’ll start by laying the ground work…” w/ photos