What did you learn this week? Let us know in the comments or at education@ngs.org.
This week, we learned…
… that tea might be finished as the British national drink.
… how educators are reminding test-taking students that “there is no way to test all the amazing and awesome things that make you YOU.”

… that there’s a high school inside JFK Airport?!
… ancient trade routes are written in camel genes.

Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic
… it can be dangerous to do math on a plane.

Guido Menzio & Shouyong Shi, 2011. “Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle,” Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 119(3), pages 468 – 510.
… five islands have been lost to sea level rise, and a village has been buried in sand.

Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic
… that cake and pie can teach complex mathematical concepts.
… history isn’t dead. There is a lost colony of the Confederacy in Brazil, and secret messages are hidden in colonial handwriting.

… skywriting is a dying art form.
… that central Ohio is the best place to find great Japanese cuisine and grocers outside Japan.

Photograph by Daderot, courtesy Wikimedia. Public domain.
… what would happen if GPS failed.
… a weasel can take down CERN, a raccoon can take down Seattle, and the most terrifying animals in big aquariums are turtles.

Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic