What did you learn this week? Let us know in the comments or at education@ngs.org.
This week, we learned…
… that there are two competing sites of the “Garden of Eden” in Iraq.
… 62 years after Brown v. Board of Education, a Mississippi school district was ordered to desegregate.
… the most successful female Everest climber of all time is a Connecticut housekeeper.
… why we court death by GPS.
… women won big at science fiction’s premiere party, the Nebula Awards.
… the changing habits of the American diet … when we started thinking of the cupcake as a “female” food … and why we should be eating roadkill, anyway.
… digital education may be a double-edged sword.
… a mug in Auschwitz held a secret treasure for 70 years.
… what chemical ingredients make you YOU, how much they’re worth, and whether your microbes outweigh you.
… the future of Quakerism is in Kenya. And it’s noisy.
… how to work with the excitement of the upcoming summer break, not against it. Bring the Summer Olympics to the classroom, of course!
… pigeons make beautiful art.
What did you learn this week? Let us know in the comments or at education@ngs.org.
Nice list of things you learned on this weekend, I enjoyed reading