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This week, we learned . . .
. . . that cephalopods can make a great escape!
. . . how the soundtrack from the musical Hamilton can be used to teach any subject you can think of—yes, it really is that good.
. . . about the Rocket Girls—unheralded women scientists who furthered space exploration.

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
. . . that trees are part of a fungal “wood-wide web.”

Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic
. . . speaking of trees, we learned we are but a minor branch on the bacteria-dominated Tree of Life.

Illustration by Credit Jill Banfield/UC Berkeley, Laura Hug/University of Waterloo, “A new view of the tree of life,” Nature Microbiology Article number: 16048 (2016)
. . . how one school built an interdisciplinary curriculum based on dementia.

Photograph by Rebecca Hale, National Geographic
. . . that science fairs may be an “exercise in privilege,” but we can make them better.

Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy
. . . that professional trackers can read a lot into trails left in the wilderness . . . and by our ancestors in time.

Photograph by Robert Clark, National Geographic
. . . how to talk to students about terrorism.

Map by Maggie Smith, National Geographic