What did you learn this week? Let us know in the comments or at education@ngs.org.
This week we learned …
… an American won the Man Booker prize. Congratulations, Paul Beatty!
… what wind, currents, and geography tell us about how people first settled Oceania.

… the ancient Romans were brutal.

Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic
… what President Obama’s education legacy really is.
… the awesome origins of the High Five, just in time for the World Series.
… why Russia didn’t become a free-market democracy after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Map by National Geographic, of course
… how this volcano stopped an earthquake in its tracks.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey
… we should remember H.G. Wells for his social predictions, not just his scientific ones.
… spiders can “tune” their webs.

Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic
… diamonds are forever, and your data might be, too.

Photograph by Victor R. Boswell, Jr., National Geographic
… we live in the age of funfetti.

Photograph by Tiia Monto, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0
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