What did you learn this week? Let us know in the comments or at education@ngs.org.
This week, we learned …
… the surprising story of the Muslim tamale king of the Old West.

… it’s Sami v. Somaliland in a World Cup for the stateless.

… that Maori ’emotiki’ will soon join the emoji crowd with emoticons to express cultural concepts like the ritual haka warrior dance.
… there’s an interactive to determine if you’re Middle Class, depending on where you live.

… how one Michigan school district’s data mining reduced chronic absences.
… the longest rail tunnel in the world opened beneath the Alps.

… what cities of the future may look like.
… that living in this world without eating pho is foolish, according to one Vietnamese poet and satirist.

… this engrossing visual search tool for satellite imagery has applications for teachers, journalists, and curious people of all kinds.

… King Tut’s dagger was made from a meteorite.

… the hidden cost of the college dream is low graduation rates.

Love pho! <3