Rare genetic mutations turn out to not be quite as rare as we previously thought.
Rare is relative
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
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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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