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The Monarch Butterfly Population Just Jumped 64 Percent
Every winter, millions of monarch butterflies make one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world, traveling up to 2,800 miles from Canada and the United States to cluster on oyamel fir trees in the mountains of central Mexico, their wings blanketing the forest in a sight unlike anything
She Beat Cancer And Then Adopted A Hawk
When the first Covid lockdown arrived, most people tried baking sourdough or following along with an exercise video. Candida Meyrick did something rather more unusual: she adopted a Harris Hawk fledgling, and the decision changed her life in ways she is still discovering. Candida, who had come through breast cancer
Dog Finds A Message In A Bottle That Crossed The Atlantic From Canada
On a wildly stormy morning on a beach in northeast Scotland, a dog named Maggie was doing what dogs do best: sniffing everything in sight. Her owner Mike Scott, a photographer who walks his dogs at St Cyrus in Aberdeenshire almost every day, noticed Maggie circling a dark glass bottle
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Ancient Handprints Found To Be The Oldest Known Art On Earth
Somewhere on the limestone walls of a cave on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, a human hand was pressed against stone more than 67,800 years ago and traced in pigment, leaving behind what is now confirmed as the oldest known piece of art ever created by our species. An
Pen Pals Evolved, How Sending A Letter Is Changing Lives
In an age when so much human connection happens through screens, a small charity in Shropshire, England is doing something refreshingly old-fashioned: handwriting letters. The Omega charity’s Letterbox program has now exchanged more than 15,000 handwritten letters between volunteers and people who are elderly, vulnerable or socially isolated, marking a
A New Lord Of The Rings Movie Is In The Works, Written by Stephen Colbert
This is not a drill. Warner Bros. has announced that Stephen Colbert, one of the most famously devoted Tolkien fans on the planet, is developing a brand new Lord of the Rings film alongside his son and screenwriter Peter McGee. The announcement dropped in a video that opened with director
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Happy Health
The Biggest Baby Study Ever Just Put A Major Parenting Worry To Rest
One of the most common questions among parents choosing vegetarian or vegan lifestyles is whether it is truly safe to raise a baby without animal foods, and a new study of nearly 1.2 million children just provided the most reassuring answer yet. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Israel analyzed national
A Teen Just Solved A Huge Microplastic Problem
Mia Heller is 18 years old, lives in Warrington, Virginia, and has invented a water filter that removes 96 percent of microplastics from drinking water using a magnetic oil and a clever self-recycling system she built herself in her garage and kitchen. The idea started when her local newspaper reported
She Beat Cancer And Then Adopted A Hawk
When the first Covid lockdown arrived, most people tried baking sourdough or following along with an exercise video. Candida Meyrick did something rather more unusual: she adopted a Harris Hawk fledgling, and the decision changed her life in ways she is still discovering. Candida, who had come through breast cancer