Beavers Build Dams That Can Last Centuries, Maybe Even Millennia
Beavers are some of the greatest builders on earth, and, as some scientific research has shown us, they build for the long term.
Novelty Maker S.S. Adams Put The Joy In Joy Buzzers
Today in 1879, the birthday of S.S. Adams. If you don’t know the name, you know the products: joy buzzers, sneezing powder, the dribble glass and hundreds of other novelties known all over the world all started with the S.S. Adams Company.
Guy Goma Became An Internet Expert By Accident On Live TV
Today in 2006, IT job candidate Guy Goma rose to the occasion when a BBC TV producer mistakenly brought him onto a live show to talk about the internet, even though they were actually supposed to interview a different Guy on the air.
The Outer Limits Of The U.S. Are Really Out There
It's Geography Awareness Week, so we wanted to find the furthest points in each direction that are part of the United States, along with the geographical center.
The Parachuting Beavers Of ‘48
On this day in 1948, Idaho Fish and Game moved beavers to a new habitat in a very unusual way: they had the beavers parachute into the wilderness! We'll explain how they did it.
How To Find Where You Are In Just Three Words
The app what3words breaks down all the spaces on earth into 3 meter by 3 meter squares and assigns each of those squares a unique set of three words.
Point No Point And Other Amazing, Actual Places
The website and book Sad Topographies teaches us that our planet is home to some unusually-named places, like Gloomy Lake in Ontario, Divorce Beach in Mexico, New Jersey’s Shades of Death Road (!) and a spot in Washington state known as Point No Point.