What did you learn this week? Let us know in the comments or at education@ngs.org.
This week, we learned …
… that breakfast is not the most important meal of the day.
Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic
… how a secret forest grew without anyone noticing.
Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic
… that railway stations are the architecture of democracy, and airports are just out-of-town sheds.
Photograph by Spoorjan, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
… how Silicon Valley is reimagining office space.
Photograph by Mark Mahaney
… Vladimir Nabokov did more American road-tripping than either Jack Kerouac or John Steinbeck. (But this, of course, is Kerouac, with a peerless assist from Steve Allen.)
… what it’s like to be 13.
Photograph by Sultry, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-2.0
… South America’s largest subway system might be powered by solar and wind.
Map by B1mbo, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-2.5,2.0,1.0
… the proposed new rules for judging schools.
Photograph by William Albert Allard, National Geographic
… that both how duckpin bowling and Persian carpets are becoming lost arts.
Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic
… why Hindu groups are against a California textbook change.
Photograph by Steve McCurry, National Geographic
… an elephant can speak Korean.
… the floppy disk is not dead.
