According to the weekly news (ending 28 September, 2013) from Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet (featured on our web site), migrating Monarch butterflies are disappearing at an alarming rate: “Clusters of colorful monarch butterflies are now in the midst of their marathon migration southward across a broad swath of North America, but observers warn their numbers have plummeted again this year. The organization Journey North helps...
Read More“The inhabitants of Easter Island consumed a diet that was lacking in seafood and was, literally, quite ratty.” Owen Jarus, writing for Livescience.com, points out the implications in an article titled “Diet of Easter Islanders Revealed: Rats!”: The island, also called Rapa Nui, first settled around A.D. 1200, is famous for its more than 1,000 “walking” Moai statues, most of which originally faced...
Read More“Crystal Bae came to UC Santa Barbara from Washington, D.C., but she didn’t travel here the conventional way (by car, bus, plane or train). Bae bicycled here, part of a summer bicycle tour with her partner in which she cycled 4,651 miles, with 88 days on the road riding a daily average of 61 miles. Over the summer, the couple consumed 11 jars of peanut butter, 43 scoops of ice cream and countless pancakes. They applied 32...
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