Why did millions of ladybugs all migrate at once?
By Laura Goldman From Care2 What at first appeared to be a rain cloud above Southern California on the National Weather Service’s (NWS) radar June 4 turned out to actually be a huge swarm of ladybugs flying south. How huge? The…
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Cayman Islands MRCU and Cayman Prep partner for maths class
A Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) employee, listening to the radio on her way in to work, was thrilled to hear a student at a school she had recently visited get all the questions right in a quiz on…
He Jiankui: Baby gene experiment ‘foolish and dangerous’
By James Gallagher From BBC The first people to be gene-edited – a pair of baby twin girls – may have been mutated in a way that shortens life expectancy, research suggests. Prof He Jiankui shocked the world when he…
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This ladybird-bike is a moving children library
From Designer Daily When closed, this bike looks like the random food-selling street carts you can see everywhere in China. However, when the ladybug opens its wings, something magical happens: it’s a tiny library! Made of abandonned bikes and discarded…
Spectacular music scores
The Spectacular Music Scores of George Crumb From Daily Designer George Crumb is an Avant-Garde composer who became famous for his music (obviously). However, his music scores could also have been at the root of his fame, the composer takes a…
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Exploring the toxic world of ‘female privilege’
By Rachel Thompson for The Face from Mashable It was early on Saturday morning when I crossed the threshold into a quarantined community. I was entering r/TheRedPill, a subreddit dedicated to radical misogyny. This breeding ground of anti-women invective and conspiracy…
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Destinations of the week
Seriously weird places around the world By Rachel Mills From Rough guides The world is a weird (and wonderful) place. And from a rose-coloured lake to a Japanese island ruled by cats. 1. Spotted Lake, British Columbia, Canada Spotted Lake has long been…
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Scientists create a four-winged robot insect that flies with grace
By Jon Fingas From engadget It’s difficult to make an insect-like flying robot — realistic four-winged bots are typically too heavy, while lighter two-winged models tend to fly erratically. USC researchers have edged one step closer to the dream machine, however. They’ve created Bee+,…
Sea floor explorers startled when tubeworm ‘popped out like a jack in the box’ off N.C.
By Mark Price The Charlotte Observer (TNS) From The Dispatch One of the most forbidding ocean-floor environments off North Carolina — a methane gas seep — has been found to host a type of foot-long tubeworm never before seen along…
Somehow a Starbucks coffee cup appeared on ‘Game of Thrones’
By Johnny Lieu From Mashable News from Winterfell. The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. #Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea. From the Battle of Winterfell, we saw a true hero emerge in Arya Stark. In Game of…
