NASA’s Lucy mission will soon be in the sky, with a...
Enlarge / Atlas V with the Lucy spacecraft aboard an SLC-41 on the morning of October 15 as media set their sound-activated remote cameras.Trevor Mahlmann Less than five years have gone by since NASA selected the "Lucy" mission for development as part of its Discovery Mission program, and now the intriguing spacecraft is ready for…
15 Movies to Inspire Your Existential Travel Across the US When...
Chloé Zhao’s Academy Award-winning Nomadland is inspiring a new wave of tourism to unlikely locations in South Dakota, including the Reptile Gardens animal park and the cowboy-themed Wall Drug Store, both featured in the film.With all respect to those attractions, it’s less the sites themselves than the context that’s selling them: Nomadland paints a picture…
What to Do When You Encounter Racism in Your Kids’ Books
Photo: tookitook (Shutterstock)As parents become better informed about the racism present in media, they’re left with some tough choices—decisions they sometimes need to make in a split second’s time. One of the biggies is: What on Earth do you do when you’re reading a story aloud to a child and you come across something racist?Lindsay…
Early hominin skull completes “a significant space” in the fossil record
Enlarge / Yohannes Haile-Salassie poses in the field with the newly discovered skull. Photograph courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History A 3.8 million-year-old fossil skull is giving anthropologists their first look at an early Australopithecine, the hominin genus that eventually led to modern humans. The skull belongs to a member of a species…
