American scientists have proposed a new method for recruiting trillions of microscopic sea creatures and their insatiable appetites for the fight against climate change. The technique harnesses the animals’ daily habits to essentially accelerate the ocean’s natural cycle for removing carbon from the atmosphere, which is known as the biological pump,…
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Not far off the Kenyan coast, maritime archaeologists believe they have found the wreckage of a galleon belonging to Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator who found the route to India around Africa. While the true provenance of the vessel is unclear, the discovery would be of monumental importance to the…
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122 years ago today, Theodor Mommsen received the Nobel Prize for Literature, with a special mention for A History of Rome, a history so well-researched, so precise, measured, and yet also expansive in its scope, that it remains critical to contemporary historical research today even 170 years after its publication. READ what Mark…
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Thanks to the kindness of a generous donor, children 12 and under will now be able to visit the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) for free. The gift of $3.5 million was given anonymously but with instructions to establish an endowment supporting child attendance at the museum. The donor “shared fond memories…
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If you have 2 minutes to be charmed, watch the video of this Dr. Livingston in the making, who can name all 195 flags of the world at just 4 years old. Arthur Weekley has been interested in flags since he was 3 after his dad Bobby bought him a puzzle…
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5 years ago today, the residents of Bougainville, an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea, voted in a 98% majority for independence of their small island region. Unlike the Tigray independence movement in Ethiopia which just a few months later sparked a terrible civil war, the government of Papua New Guinea…
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In Zambia’s Kafue National Park, a conservation organization specializing in wildcats has reported that the number of leopards there has tripled. With an increase of 2.9, there are now 4.4 leopards per 100 square kilometers of terrain, which is much more than it sounds when you consider just how big Kafue…
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