WEIRD FACTS
Deer cross roads whenever they wish, but some time periods are higher risk than others. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images – By Tom Langen, Professor of Biology, Clarkson University 2021 Sep 21 – Autumn is here starting Wednesday, and that means the risk …
Cassandra, Evelyn de Morgan, 1898 – By Lawrence Wittner Dr. Lawrence Wittner is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press). 2021 Sep 19 News at Home – In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra was a priestess …
A pedestrian walks by a help wanted sign posted in the window of hardware store on 2021 Sep 16 in San Francisco, California. Unemployment claims inched up to 332,000 from a pandemic low of 312,000 a week before. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) …
Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering, and his students have created the whitest paint on record. – By Doyle Rice 2021 Sep 17 — The whitest paint in the world has been created in a lab at Purdue University, a …
Tools and bones in Moroccan cave could be some of earliest evidence of the hallmark human behavior. The Contrebandiers Cave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, where the bone tools and bones were found. Photograph: Contrebandiers – By Nicola Davis Science correspondent @NicolaKSDavis …
A farmer walks through a rice paddy in India’s northeastern state of Assam. Buu Boro /AFP via Getty Images – By Xiaoming Xu, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Atul Jain, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of …
These 19 extraordinary errors will make you feel better about your next slip-up. By Kerry Wolfe 19 Places Everybody makes mistakes. Some go relatively unnoticed—fleeting blips soon forgiven and forgotten. But others last, adding a quirky kind of charm to the attractions they …
Heat and dryness are leaving high mountain areas more vulnerable to forest fires. David McNew/Getty Images – By Mojtaba Sadegh, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University and by John Abatzoglou, Associate Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced and by Mohammad …
For centuries, societies have used visions of the afterlife to discipline people’s behavior. DEA / G. Nimatallah/De Agostini via Getty Images – By Meghan Henning, Associate Professor of Christian Origins, University of Dayton 2021 Sep 08 – In the opening of Netflix’s popular …
Peter Gleick argues there’s an urgent need to reshape our relationship to water: ‘There is enormous untapped potential for conservation’ The Enterprise Bridge crosses over a section of Lake Oroville in Oroville, California. Water levels at the lake have dropped to 42% of …
