Brain Post: Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall? It was officially the first day of fall this week, which can only mean one thing; winter’s coming! And as the temperatures drop and the seasons change, we get to revel in the beauty of the fall colors. The mixtures of red, purple, orange and yellow are the result of processes that take place in the tree as the seasons […] Brains The Brains | September 22, 2022 2 Comments
Brain Post: How Much Time Does the Average American Spend Outdoors? People often think that the reason we get colds and flus more often in the winter is because it’s cold out. False. We get colds and flus more often in the winter because we are inside more often and exposed to more higher concentrations of airborne pollutants including cold and flu viruses. […] Brains SnowBrains | June 2, 2022 191 Comments
Happy Earth Day! | NASA’s Best Photos of Earth: Nasa is marking Earth Day by releasing some of its best images of our planet taken from space – by its satellites, its research aircraft and astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) – in the past year. A Sky View of Earth From Suomi NPP. This composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership spacecraft on April 9, 2015, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. Tropical Cyclone Joalane can be seen over the Indian Ocean. Sea Ice Off East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast. On April 5, 2015, the […] SnowBrains | April 22, 2020 0 Comments
Brain Post: 17 Interesting Facts About Mount Everest Everest climbing season is here. Summits are about to be had. Lives are about to be changed forever… for better or for worse. MOUNT EVEREST FACTS 1. Everest grows 4mm higher every year due to geologic uplift. 2. 1 in 10 successful summits ends in death. 3. Over 4,000 people have attempted to climb Everest. 4. George Everest, Surveyor General of […] Brains SnowBrains | May 3, 2019 101 Comments
Brain Post: How Big is Your Blind Spot? We all know cars have blind spots. Some larger than others, but that’s no new news. The question here is: Do skiers and snowboarders have blind spots? And if so, where? The answer lies not in the gear, or the thick layers of fleece, down, and Gore-Tex apparel. Nor does it have anything to do with those nice new, brightly colored, reflective […] Brains Bevan Waite | October 16, 2018 3 Comments
New Hi-Res NASA Photos & Video of the Mountains of Pluto are Stunning NASA’s piano-sized New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the sharpest ever views of Pluto’s mountains obtained on it’s July flyby. Humans may not see photos this close-up of Pluto again for decades. “These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high resolution window into Pluto’s geology.” – New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. […] Brains The Brains | December 5, 2015 0 Comments
Brain Post: 8 Signs You’re Smarter Than Average Business Insider has put together this simple list of things smarter than average people do. It’s pretty fascinating. How many do you do? What do smart people have in common? Researchers have seen patterns in everything from choice of pet to height. Check out the graphic below to see what other things they have in common. (Note that correlation does not imply […] Brains The Brains | November 30, 2015 0 Comments
NASA: “Pluto Has Big Mountains Made of Ice” Unless you’ve been under a rock recently, you know that NASA sent its New Horizons spacecraft 3.6 Billion miles to Pluto and it flew past the former planet two days ago. It flew within 7,700 miles of Pluto’s surface while flying 28,000 mph and took some killer photos. Our first ever high resolution photos of Pluto. The first thing scientists noticed about Pluto is that it has big mountains. “They would stand up respectably against the […] Brains SnowBrains | July 17, 2015 0 Comments
NASA: Turkey’s Glaciers Have Shrunken by Half NASA just wrote this article today about Turkey’s shrinking glaciers. Yes, Turkey has glacier and high peaks and their glacier half lost half of their collective mass since 1970. Turkey’s highest elevation is Mt. Ararat at 16,859′. Turkey had 14 main glaciers in the 1970s and 5 of them have completely disappeared. The skiing […] Brains SnowBrains | July 2, 2015 0 Comments
How Bad is the California Drought? Possibly the worst in over 1,000 years… As just about everyone knows by this point, the West is within the grips of a severe drought, California in particular. However, California has had a long history of drought and water issues, so really how serious is this drought that has seen the first ever mandatory water restrictions […] Brains Jesse Cassidy | May 12, 2015 1 Comment
Brain Post: These Animals Have Gone Extinct in the Last 35 Years Climate change is very real – and it’s changing the population of our planet Earth. Check out this video to see the long laundry list of animals that have gone extinct in the last 35 years. “Extinct in a Millennial Lifetime” depicts animals that have passed into extinction since 1980. The sadness of the subject matter is compounded by rough animation and narration by a child who will never get the chance to see these animals. It’s a poignant call to action to protect biodiversity for future generations. Film created and produced by […] Brains ameliatraynor | April 23, 2015 1 Comment
Brain Post: Amazing Video Showing How Wolves Change Rivers [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q"] ameliatraynor | January 29, 2015 0 Likes 0 Tweets 1 Comment
Brain Post: 5 HIstorical Concepts That Simply Aren’t True There are many concepts from history that we simply accept as true. They’ve been perpetuated in movies, on TV, in books, in songs, on billboards, everywhere. So, they must be true, right? Wrong. An abundance of these type of “facts” exist in our everyday pop culture and we are deceived by them daily. CGP Grey gives us a solid and entertaining rundown of 5 historical myths that simply aren’t true and why the aren’t true. Interesting stuff, for sure. […] Brains SnowBrains | June 25, 2014 0 Comments
Brain Post: A Spider That Cartwheels & Flips to Travel A new species of spider has been discovered in Morocco that can flip and cartwheel as a form of locomotion. A spider has never been seen to behave in this manner. It’s a remarkable way to get around and very efficient, if not dizzying. This spider propels itself by rolling onto it’s side and flicking it’s legs to cause it to flip. It then lands on […] Brains SnowBrains | May 1, 2014 1 Comment
Brain Post: The Top 15 Deadliest Animals On Earth The reason this is a brain post is because this one actually makes you think. Before you see the answers to this question you instantly search your brain for plausible answers. You think of common horror movie animals like bears, wolves, tigers, sharks, and pterodactyls. […] Brains SnowBrains | April 30, 2014 0 Comments
Brain Post | Measuring Mountains How do we know how tall mountains are? Two answers: in modern times GPS measurements can be made to an accuracy of a few centimeters. Before GPS, trigonometry (just like in high school) was used to estimate the height of peaks. Not surprisingly, the British, measurers, organizers, and classifiers of […] Featured Article Chaz Diamond | March 25, 2014 0 Comments
The First Skiers: Deep in Time, Deep in the Altai Skiing is claimed to have originated in Russia, Norway, and the Altai Mountains of Northern China simultaneously. While modern skiing may draw its roots from Scandinavia, the roots of skiing may originate in the Altai Mountains at the end of the last ice age. China claims to have invented skis in this region nearly […] Featured Article Chaz Diamond | March 17, 2014 1 Comment
Brain Post: “The 5 Jobs Most Likely To Make You Sick” Many jobs put us in situations that can make us sick. Some more than others. Men’s Health has put together a list of the jobs most likely to make you sick. The only problem is that most all of us fall into one of these 5 types of jobs… Talk about an occupational hazard: 40 percent of Australian workers may be exposed to chemicals that boost their risk of developing cancer, according to a team of Aussie researchers. Solar radiation, tobacco smoke, and diesel engine exhaust topped the list of the most common disease-causing culprits. While some jobs, such as logging and power line […] Featured Article SnowBrains | February 21, 2014 1 Comment
Brain Post: “How to Keep Batteries From Dying in the Cold?” Batteries are notorious for dying in the cold. They get cold, their life decreases dramatically and the device they’re powering dies and you’re screwed. Some of the things batteries power are crucial to mountain survival: avalanche beacons and headlamps come to mind. With this in mind, we need to do what we can to make batteries last as long as possible, especially when in the backcountry. Outside Magazine has some great tips that we’ve borrowed here: […] Featured Article SnowBrains | February 14, 2014 1 Comment
Brain Post: Volcano Emits Electric Blue Flames | This is NOT Lava… No filters were used in these photos of Kawah Ijen, a volcano on the Indonesian isle of Java. The glow radiating from the volcano in this photo comes from the combustion of sulfuric gases emitting from the volcano itself. “This blue glow—unusual for a volcano—isn’t, of course, lava, as unfortunately can be read on many […] Brains SnowBrains | February 3, 2014 0 Comments
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