When you hear the words “rural America”, you probably imagine that picturesque scene from a Hallmark movie: a charming old farmhouse, a big red barn silo, and a herd of cattle grazing peacefully on rolling green pastures. While this scene may have been the case a hundred years ago, the current landscape is looking much…
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When you pick out your produce at the grocery store, you trust that it is safe for you to eat, and at least hope that it was produced in a way that is not harmful to the environment. Pesticides, of course, do not really fit within this narrative, and it turns out that while many…
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It doesn’t matter where you find love and true friendship. As long as it doesn’t eat you to pieces… In 2015, photographer Dolph Volker went viral when he uploaded a video of himself napping under a tree with a cute cheetah on YouTube [1]. On his vacation days from his job in the U.S., Dolph…
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If you’re in Port Macquarie, Australia today, chances are you’ve got a couple things on your mind: extreme high temperatures and a sky choked with bushfire smoke. On Monday, November 11th, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian declared a state of emergency [1] ahead of anticipated “catastrophic” fire danger conditions expected in the Greater Sydney,…
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On Tuesday night, the lagoon city of Venice in Italy was struck by a tide so high that most parts of the city are currently flooded [1]. So far, an elderly man has lost his life in the disaster. This will be the first time since 1966 that Venice has been hit by a flood…
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A shop on Anglesey street in Wales, UK is working to tackle the problem of plastic waste. Paul Ellis, and his partner Leonie Gaulton, his partner, run the shop, and together have installed a milk machine for customers to fill reusable glass bottles, themselves! So far this implemented self-service has become increasingly popular. Their customers…
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The first-ever photograph of the sun was taken in 1845 by Louis Fizeau and Lion Foucault, two French physicists [1]. The photo was black and white and not particularly high quality, but in the image, you can easily make out the sun’s round shape and several dark “sun spots” on its surface. Since then, humans…
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