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Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching Summer
Amid a summer of crop failures, a spud-tacular potato harvest in Japan showed that banner years are still in the almanac…
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SERIES: ANATOMY OF NOISE – How an Informed Society Becomes Weakened 13:20
The Myth of “Total Transparency”: When Excess Information Obscures Human Rights In contemporary societies, the protection of human rights depends increasingly…
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A Farmer Didn’t Know His Cell Number Was on an Exam Question, Now Uses the Calls He Gets as Opportunities to Inspire
A young student has been accepted into a prestigious university thanks in part to an unusual source of inspiration: a strawberry…
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Romans Made Color-Changing Glass–and We’ve Just Replicated After 1,600 Years
The Romans were incredible materials scientists, having famously invented self-healing concrete that allowed their structures to stand for millennia. Yet for…
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Stunning New Opera House Opens With a Gravity-Defying Grand Staircase (LOOK)
Despite its curtain raising rather late in the year, Shanghai’s new opera house has elbowed its way to the front row…
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Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching Summer
Read More: Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching SummerAmid a summer of crop failures, a spud-tacular potato harvest in Japan showed that banner years are still in the almanac even as climate uncertainty continues to make farming…
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Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching Summer
Read More: Best Spud Harvest in a Decade Clears the Gloom of Crops Failing from Scorching SummerAmid a summer of crop failures, a spud-tacular potato harvest in Japan showed that banner years are still in the almanac even as climate uncertainty continues to make farming…
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SERIES: ANATOMY OF NOISE – How an Informed Society Becomes Weakened 13:20
Read More: SERIES: ANATOMY OF NOISE – How an Informed Society Becomes Weakened 13:20The Myth of “Total Transparency”: When Excess Information Obscures Human Rights In contemporary societies, the protection of human rights depends increasingly on the quality of the informational environment.The mere…
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A Farmer Didn’t Know His Cell Number Was on an Exam Question, Now Uses the Calls He Gets as Opportunities to Inspire
Read More: A Farmer Didn’t Know His Cell Number Was on an Exam Question, Now Uses the Calls He Gets as Opportunities to InspireA young student has been accepted into a prestigious university thanks in part to an unusual source of inspiration: a strawberry farmer he met because of a question on…
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Romans Made Color-Changing Glass–and We’ve Just Replicated After 1,600 Years
Read More: Romans Made Color-Changing Glass–and We’ve Just Replicated After 1,600 YearsThe Romans were incredible materials scientists, having famously invented self-healing concrete that allowed their structures to stand for millennia. Yet for some, it’s the glass that forms this one—yes,…
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Stunning New Opera House Opens With a Gravity-Defying Grand Staircase (LOOK)
Read More: Stunning New Opera House Opens With a Gravity-Defying Grand Staircase (LOOK)Despite its curtain raising rather late in the year, Shanghai’s new opera house has elbowed its way to the front row of international architectural debuts—thanks to a gravity-defying grand…
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Tiny Scottish Island’s Little Historical Society Makes Massive Discovery
Read More: Tiny Scottish Island’s Little Historical Society Makes Massive DiscoveryA Scottish island is now confirmed to have been one of earliest centers of Christian evangelism in the British Isles thanks to a small-town historical society. The massive discovery…
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53 Orangutans Rescued from Fires in Borneo, With Many Rewilded to Forest Preserves Across the Island
Read More: 53 Orangutans Rescued from Fires in Borneo, With Many Rewilded to Forest Preserves Across the IslandForest and peatland wildfires continue to burn across the island of Borneo, endangering the air quality for both humans and wildlife—and torching the food supply for critically endangered orangutans.…
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Brazil Ends Long Tradition of 6-Day Workweek via Constitutional Amendment
Read More: Brazil Ends Long Tradition of 6-Day Workweek via Constitutional AmendmentWith Brazil’s senate voting 75 to 1 in favor, one wonders what took them so long? The nation was one of the richest in the world that still had…
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Village Installs Knitted Traffic Cops to Slow Down Speeding Drivers
Read More: Village Installs Knitted Traffic Cops to Slow Down Speeding DriversVillagers have knitted speed cameras and life-sized traffic cops to fake-out reckless motorists, in a bid to slow down drivers. The locals in Fillongley, Warwickshire, dressed the mannequins in…
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Inches Below the Forest Floor, Archeologists in Germany Unearthed a Roman Temple to the War God
Read More: Inches Below the Forest Floor, Archeologists in Germany Unearthed a Roman Temple to the War GodAlong a series of Roman fortifications cutting across Germany just north of Frankfurt, archeological excavations have revealed extensive floorplans belonging to a temple, a military camp, and craft center.…