Rebecca Escamilla
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Kalamazoo Wings Hockey Player Ray Kaunisto Plays the ‘Super Troopers’ Cat Game During an Interview
Self-described proud Yooper and Kalamazoo Wings hockey player Ray Kaunisto dropped seven “meows” into a 40-second interview during intermission of a game in an homage…
‘My Mom Is an Airplane’, An Animated Short About a High-Flying Mother by Yulya Aronova
“My Mom Is an Airplane” is an animated short film by Russian artist Yulya Aronova. The film carries a charming, sincere tone and tells the…
New Analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, An Ancient Greek Analog Computer, Brings More Mystery Into Light
The Antikythera mechanism, recovered in 1901 from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, is an ancient analog computer that is believed to have…
500,000-Year-Old Shell Engraving by Homo Erectus Is Oldest Known ‘Art’
image by Wim Lustenhouwer, VU University Amsterdam In the 1890s, Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist Eugène Dubois collected fossils in Trinil, Indonesia. Among his findings were…
‘The Oxford Comma and Other Academic Punctuation Marks’, A Comic About Punctuation by Jorge Cham
Everyone’s heard of the Oxford comma, but what if you went somewhere else for college? Jorge Cham of PHD Comics created a clever comic about…
The Darwin Manuscripts Project, An Ongoing Effort to Transcribe & Share Scientific Work of Naturalist Charles Darwin
The Darwin Manuscripts Project at the American Museum of Natural History has released “the world’s first and only large collection of full color, high-resolution images…
The 2014 Chemistry Advent Calendar, Festive Flasks to Celebrate a Different Molecule Each Day Until Christmas
Chemistry blog Compound Interest has released the 2014 Chemistry Advent Calendar, a tree-shaped calendar made of flasks that celebrates a different molecule each day leading…
Neal Cassady’s Long-Lost Letter to Jack Kerouac That Inspired the Literary Style of ‘On The Road’
This is the long-lost letter that inspired Jack Kerouac to change his writing style. pic.twitter.com/ZAhYjEfuCL — NPR (@NPR) November 24, 2014 Jack Kerouac already…
‘Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl’, Haunting Drone Footage of a City Evacuated After the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
While working on an episode of the CBS television news show 60 Minutes in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine, filmmaker Danny Cooke captured drone…
Budsies, Plush Toys Based on Children’s Artwork
Budsies are custom handmade plush toys based on drawings and photos of children’s artwork submitted by customers. Once a customer places an order with attached…