From The Pope’s Mouth
0.0 00 Pope Francis accidentally cursed in Italian while delivering his weekly blessing at the Vatican, using the word cazzo, the equivalent to the F-bomb, rather than caso, which means “example.”
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Inequality in Wealth
0.0 00 What’s most important—and troubling— is the decades-long, systemic expansion of the economic distance between the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor, and the long, backward slide for the majority of those in-between.
Read moreGirls Outperform Boys
0.0 00 Percentage of countries worldwide in which girls outperform boys in academic achievement: 70
Read moreThe Healthiest Fruit
1.0 01 All fruit isn’t created equal when it comes to preventing diabetes. A Harvard University study that tracked the diets of more than 185,000 people over 12 years shows that eating strawberries, oranges, peaches, plums, and apricots has no impact on a person’s likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes. But grapes, apples, grapefruit, and blueberries do help ward off […]
Read moreOh, That Smell
0.0 00 A specimen of the world’s largest flower, the titan arum, is about to bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. To attract carrion insects, the flower emits a stench botanists likened to “a very dead elephant.”
Read moreMilitary Golf Courses
0.0 00 Number of golf courses worldwide operated by the U.S. military: 151
Read moreWhy There’s a Skyscraper in the Amazon
0.0 00 The $9 billion, 1,000-ft. (305 m) Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory—now the tallest structure in South America—recently entered the final stages of construction. It will be inaugurated in August and fully operational by 2017. Here’s what Brazil and Germany, which co-funded the project, are hoping it will accomplish: Gather data The tower’s height and state-of-the- art instruments will enable […]
Read moreGreat Art
5.0 01 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum is already home to an artist’s rendition of da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” made from burned toast, and now comes a recent version by Laura Bell of Roscommon, MI — da Vinci’s masterpiece made with clothes-dryer lint. Bell said she did about 800 hours of laundry of various-colored towels to obtain lint […]
Read moreWhat Is Executive Brain Function?
0.0 00 Like many brain deficits, ADHD affects frontal lobe executive functioning, which coordinates everything we do by processing and organizing information.
Read moreGLACIAL RETREATS IN ANTARCTICA
0.0 00 British teams of scientists, using satellite tracking, have found that 10.7% of glaciers in Antarctica are starting to retreat at an alarming rate of speed. Much faster than had been expected for average melts. The warm water from the oceans has contributed to the rise in sea levels.
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