This week, we learned …
… why Los Angeles doughnut boxes are pink. Read of the week!

Photograph by Shutterstock
Revisit our favorite geographic doughnuts, beignets.
… the world is running out of sand.

Photograph by Kitra Cahana, National Geographic
Learn more about sand dunes with our reference resource.
… there are genuine nut jobs in California.

Photograph by Rebecca Hale, National Geographic
How are nuts—even hijacked nuts—a part of globalization?
… how the war changed Ramadan in Baghdad.
… scientists extracted the first genome from an Egyptian mummy.

Photograph by Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic
What’s the newest view of the most famous Egyptian mummy, King Tut?
… the hangar opened for the world’s biggest airplane, and construction started on the world’s biggest telescope.
How did man-powered flight get started?
… organic cotton might be worse for the environment than regular cotton.

Photograph by Kimberly Vardeman, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-2.0
What’s the water footprint of cotton and other key crops?
… a former FBI agent is tracking down lost apples of the Pacific Northwest.

Photograph by Rebecca Hale, National Geographic
How did “Johnny Appleseed” contribute to the dwindling varieties of apples in the U.S.?
… 17-year cicadas are waking up four years early.

… voting might make us stupid.

… Bloom’s digital taxonomy verbs.

Awesome Post! Cant stop thinking about those doughnuts…