Life on Earth: "Yup, it's pretty much a giant accident," says recent study.
Natural selection is neat
For 1,000 years people have seen strange lights on the Moon
According to the science of transient lunar phenomena, observers have reported brief lights, colors, and hazes on the Moon for at least a thousand years, and astronomers still cannot fully… READ THE REST
A volcano froze crops worldwide in 1453
According to the record of the 1452/1453 mystery eruption, a volcano erupted somewhere on Earth powerful enough to inject about 11 megatons of sulfur into the stratosphere — "roughly one-third… READ THE REST
Deaf kids in 1980s Nicaragua created a language from thin air
In 1977, a special-education center opened in Managua with 50 deaf children. Enrollment reached 400 across two schools by 1983. Teachers drilled the students in spoken Spanish and lipreading, "with… READ THE REST
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