What did you learn this week? Let us know in the comments or at education@ngs.org.
This week, we learned …
… Star Wars is really about feminism … and Jefferson … and Jesus.

Photograph by Voltordu, courtesy Pixabay. Public domain.
… nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson will step up to the periodic table.

Graphic by Sandbh, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0
… how monsoon rains returned to lift India’s spirit and economy. (One assumes it played out like SRK, Madhuri, and the random singing children here.)
… the one simple question most people get wrong about college graduates.

Photograph by Kit, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-2.0
… how Muslim scholars are in search of the Ramadan moon. (Let Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam tell you about it.)
… LeBron James and Serena Williams have nothing on Cristiano Ronaldo, the world’s highest-paid athlete. (Watch this video to understand why.)
… before there were hobbits, there were smaller hobbits. (Not these hobbits.)
… an unsung hero of Western science speculated, two thousand years before Darwin, about “mutation according to place.”

Photograph by Tato Grasso, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-2.5
… black students are four times more likely than white students to be suspended.

… how and why British farming—unlike British manufacturing—survived globalization.

… the past is a foreign country to China’s memory manipulators. (Once Upon a Time in China … )
… South Korea is launching a “K-pop Academy.” In Mexico.
What did you learn this week? Let us know in the comments or at education@ngs.org.
Note: Current Event Connection is slowing down for the summer. Our column will continue to appear once or twice a week until mid-August. If you have an idea for a Current Event Connection, a recommendation for a good read, or want to share one of your MapMaker Interactive maps, let us know at education@ngs.org!
Congrats to Japan to be first Asian country which discovered an element. Hope for a good monsoon this year!!!!!!