This week, we learned …

… the last five years were the hottest ever recorded.

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… what’s happening with the four 2014 finalists for National Teacher of the Year.

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… the most massive living thing on Earth is struggling to survive.

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… what cities have the most dangerous roads for pedestrians.

Where are pedestrians most dangerous?

 

 

… grizzly populations around Yellowstone have recovered, and ranchers are frustrated.

What other regions are bearing some grizzlies?

 

 

… the Akkadian Empire may have been felled by dust.

What secrets may have been obscured by the fall of the Akkadian Empire?

 

 

… where people are getting arrested.

Why do law enforcement officials discourage overuse of crime statistics?

 

 

… what great role models can look like.

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… a single study in rural Nebraska has documented the entire process of natural selection.

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… giant pandas may not have had a bamboo diet for as long as we thought.

What other adaptations have giant pandas developed in order to live in their cold, wet habitat?

 

 

… what the population at Mount Vernon looked like in 1799.

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