This week, we learned …
… how to map 1.7 billion stars. Resource of the week!

Photograph by ESA/Gaia/DPAC
… ice-road truckers in Siberia are saying ‘Brother, we need Greenpeace out here.’

Photograph by SimonBoschmann, courtesy Pixabay
Russia isn’t the only landscape that’s melting.
… how to navigate the ‘third space’ of grocery stores.

Photograph by George F. Mobley, National Geographic
What are the regions of a grocery store?
… how to hunt a giant sloth.

Illustration courtesy NPS
Would you bring back giant sloths? Would you hunt them?
… deep-water trawling has caught more fish than anyone ever thought.

Photograph by Nick Rahaim, courtesy Flickr. CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0
What is the footprint of global fisheries?
… indigenous scientists are re-evaluating the concept of invasive species.

Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, National Geographic
… Alaskans are asking what happened to winter.

Photograph by Andrew Gray, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-4.0
Learn how M Jackson explores the complex relationship between communities and ever-retreating ice.
… archaeologists discovered what may have been the largest ritual of child sacrifice in history.

Where else are our explorers discovering evidence of grisly ancient sacrifice?
… humans have been upstanding citizens for more than 3.6 million years.

Photograph by Robert Clark, National Geographic
Why is bipedalism one of the characteristics that “make us human”?
… ancient Mesopotamians probably got high.

Photograph by Steve Raymer, National Geographic
Where else have psychotropic drugs played a role in spirituality?
… what life was like in New York City in 1911.
What was life like in the Arctic in 1911? What about the Antarctic?