Monthly Archive: September 2018
Kimberly Lin – The Moeraki Boulders are huge spherical rocks on Koekohe Beach on the Otago coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Appearing like a congregation of planets, the stones, with their sheer size and nearly perfect shapes, give birth to an …
A recent study illustrates the connection between consumer demand in the U.S. and increased furniture production in China, which is, in turn, fueling logging in Central Africa. By John C. Cannon – Sustainable logging in Cameroon. (Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images) Logging to feed …
Darren Quick – A new study has shown sugar pills can be effective pain relief – for those with the right brains (Credit: kavusta/Depositphotos). Researchers at Northwestern University have shown that sugar pill placebos are as effective as any drug on the …
Wise giving after a hurricane September 12, 2018 – by Colleen Tressler – Consumer Education Specialist, FTC – The 2018 hurricane season is upon us. If you haven’t made storm preparations, now is the time. The FTC has information to help you …
Recently, Irish fishermen pulled up the skull and horns of an extinct great elk, which could have 12-foot-wide antlers. By Jason Daley – Smithsonian.com – (Pat Grimes/Ardboe Heritage). Recently, fishermen Raymond McElroy and Charlie Coyle were out on Lough Neagh, a lake near …
by Robby Berman – Is someone firing a microwave weapon as U.S. embassy workers? (Peter Kim) It’s clear that something odd happened to the three dozen/plus U.S. embassy workers and family members in Cuba and China. Initially, victims’ reports of experiencing loud sounds …
By Doug Criss, CNN – (CNN) Make Pluto great again? That seems to be the aim of a new study that urges Pluto be returned to its former planetary glory. . The research, published in the scientific journal Icarus, says Pluto never …
by Mike Colagrossi – According to a recent European study, Finland is the country which has best school results in Europe thanks to its teaching system. AFP PHOTO OLIVIER MORIN. Time and time again, American students continually rank near the middle or bottom …
by Matt Davis – Big Think illustration / Actor Peter Gallagher attends the 24th and final ‘A Night at Sardi’s’ to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 9, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodríguez/Getty …
“In general, insect metabolism is temperature dependent.” By Dana Dovey – Climate change is already threatening our food supply by raising temperatures and causing wildfires, but as a new study in Science suggests, all this heat is speeding up insect metabolism, making them …
