This week, we learned …
… you should really think before posting that selfie of you volunteering abroad. Read of the week!
Get some ideas about volunteering in your own community here.
… a lot of scientists think glitter should be banned.

Photograph by maryamassimi, courtesy Pixabay. Public domain
… natural history is making a comeback on college campuses.

Photograph by Marco Grob, National Geographic
Conduct a micro-expedition in natural history.
… what prison food is like around the world.

Photograph by David Boyer, National Geographic
So, we know what prison lunches are like. What are school lunches like?
… the complex legacy of Pan Pan, who fathered more than 130 of the 520 pandas in zoos today.

Photograph by Rebecca Hale, National Geographic
Use Pan Pan as the case study in our activity on captive breeding.
… astronauts still identify landmarks the old-fashioned way.

Randy Bresnik/NASA
… scientists found the motherlode of pterosaur eggs.

Photograph from “Egg accumulation with 3D embryos provides insight into the life history of a pterosaur”
BY XIAOLIN WANG, ALEXANDER W. A. KELLNER, SHUNXING JIANG, XIN CHENG, QIANG WANG, YINGXIA MA, YAHEFUJIANG PAIDOULA, TAISSA RODRIGUES, HE CHEN, JULIANA M. SAYÃO, NING LI, JIALIANG ZHANG, RENAN A. M. BANTIM, XI MENG, XINJUN ZHANG, RUI QIU, ZHONGHE ZHOU
SCIENCE01 DEC 2017 : 1197-1201
… Nigerians love Norwegian fish.

Photograph by Petr Šmerkl, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0
Could African nations produce stockfish in their own lakes and ponds?
… there is no happy ending for the vaquita.

Photograph by Paula Olson, courtesy NOAA
… the U.S. military helped invent Cheetos.

Photograph by SCEhardt, courtesy Wikimedia. Public domain
Do Cheetos deserve a junk food tax?