This week, we learned …
… the commencement speech of the year was delivered by soccer icon Abby Wambach. Resource of the week!
Listen to a mash-up of other great commencement speeches.
… all about the rise, fall, and resurrection of the Los Angeles River.

Photograph courtesy USC Libraries Special Collections and Wikimedia. Public domain
How have other cities used land near rivers?
… citizen seals are helping collect climate-change data.

What other seals have done data-collection duties?
… an armada of saildrones could conquer the ocean.

Photograph courtesy NOAA. Public domain
Learn why underwater drones are cheaper, easier, and more accessible than ever.
… most maps of the new Ebola outbreak are wrong.

… how the Japanese keep the trains running so smoothly.

Photograph by Chris 73, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0
How do cities manage public transportation?
… how an inner-city Minnesota high school built a badminton dynasty.

Learn how Title IX helped make the dynasty possible.
… that 130 years after plundering the Arctic, a German anthropology museum is returning grave goods to Alaska Natives.

Photograph by Erika Larsen, National Geographic
… how Muslims on opposite poles observe Ramadan. (Icelanders have it tough.)

Photograph by Kitra Cahana, National Geographic
Hey, Muslims in the U.S. can get ready for Eid with Party City.
… what books Bill Gates recommends for summer reading.
What books are our explorers reading?
… what languages are the most difficult for English-speakers to learn.
