WEIRD FACTS
US employees are concerned about safety, others have caregiving responsibilities and some are using their job loss as an opportunity to find other work. Business owners claim the expanded benefits of $300 a week are keeping people at home instead of behind cash …
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% …
Financial bubbles are frequently depicted as manias. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images – By Gayle Rogers, Professor and chair of English, University of Pittsburgh 2021 Apr 30 – In the late 1990s, America experienced a dot-com mania. In the 2000s, the housing …
The Green New Deal, formerly seen as radical, is now in mainstream debate. And renewable energy becomes more efficient every day. Power-generating windmill turbines at sunset near Larnaca, Cyprus. Photograph: Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters – By Rebecca Solnit Last modified on 2021 May 01 – …
A novel lawsuit is taking advantage of a local ‘rights of nature’ measure passed in November in an effort to protect wetlands. The Florida lawsuit is part of a growing trend around the world of laws protecting rights of nature. Photograph: Jupiterimages/Getty Images …
Companies could soon tailor what they try to sell you based on the mood conveyed by the sound of your voice. CSA-Printstock via Getty Images – By Joseph Turow, Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Media Systems & Industries, University of Pennsylvania 2021 Apr …
Scheme involving ‘ bee hotels’ and ‘bee stops’ reaps rewards as census shows no strong decline in urban population. A ‘bee hotel’ in a city park. The structures have helped urban bee populations to thrive by providing cavities for solitary bees to nest. …
KARS929/TripAdvisor – By Courtnie Erickson Posted by Only In New Mexico – At Kokopelli’s Cave Bed and Breakfast just north of in Farmington, New Mexico, you will feel like you’ve stepped into an episode of “The Flintstones.” This bed and breakfast is not …
Tomatoes drawing by Lucille Clerc, from Around the World in 80 Plants. Photograph: Lucille Clerc – Did you know that tomatoes respond to a high C note? Or that the prickly pear made red fabric popular, and yams helped create the contraceptive pill? …
Cloudscape of Haikou is situated on the coastline in Hainan Province, facing the South China Sea. Archexist View 11 Images – By Adam Williams 2021 Apr 23 – MAD Architects wowed us with its initial concept for the Wormhole Library and happily the finished …
