News Mash-up: Ancient Animals Posted September 3, 2021 Keeping up with T. rex was easy: researchers Unlike its popular movie incarnations, Tyrannosaurus rex — …
Armchair Traveler: Bogazkale (Turkey) Posted September 2, 2021 More than 3,600 years ago, the mighty Hittite Empire ruled the Western Asian land of Anatolia. Its capital, Hattusa, flourished for around 500 years in what is no…
Israel narrowly swears in new coalition, ending Netanyahu’s historic 12-year rule Posted September 1, 2021 Israel’s parliament narrowly approved a new coalition government June 13, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sending the po…
News Mash-up: Social Media Posted August 31, 2021 Facebook to launch Clubhouse-style rooms Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on April 19 the company planned to launch…
Dog ejected from car found herding sheep Posted August 30, 2021 A pet dog who vanished for two days after being ejected from a vehicle during an accident has been found apparently doing the job it was …
A rediscovered forgotten species brews promise for coffee’s future Part 2 Posted August 29, 2021 Continued from Part 1… “For the longer term, stenophylla provides us with an important resource for breeding a new generation of climate-resilient coffee crop plants,…
A rediscovered forgotten species brews promise for coffee’s future Part 1 Posted August 28, 2021 In dense tropical forests in Sierra Leone, scientists have rediscovered a coffee species not seen in the wild in decades — a plant they say may help secure the future of a valuabl…
Town accidentally sells municipal water tower Posted August 27, 2021 A small town in Florida accidentally sold its water tower in a blundered real estate transaction. A businessman purchased a municipal building…
Death toll hits 11 in Florida condo collapse as rescue teams search through rubble Posted August 26, 2021 Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more sets of remains from the concrete-and-steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower Jun…
Successful children’s authors Posted August 25, 2021 Last month, Eric Carle, the beloved children’s book writer and illustrator, died. His most famous book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar — about a caterpillar…