A pigeon’s compass may sit in its liver
How a homing pigeon finds its way home across hundreds of unfamiliar miles has puzzled scientists for more than a century. A surprising new study points…
Category: Seasonal
A frog rode the salad to the store
Talk about farm fresh. A shopper in Australia opened a bag of grocery-store salad in May and found an unexpected extra ingredient — a live frog, tucked…
Signed in August, not July
Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence on July 4. But according to the National Archives, most of the 56 delegates did not sign the famous…
Your Wi-Fi may learn to recognize you
Here is an unsettling thought for the connected home: the same Wi-Fi signals that carry your video calls may also be able to tell who is standing in the…
What a kitchen fire spray can and can’t do
The little aerosol fire spray in the kitchen drawer may not last as long as homeowners expect. According to Consumer Reports, the cans carry only about a…
Grow More Vegetables
Many gardeners plant extra vegetables with the intention of sharing their harvest: There are a number of things yOu can do with overabundant vegetables…
Tall ships return to New York Harbor
For one week in July, New York Harbor will look the way it did 250 years ago. According to America250.org, the official 250th anniversary commission has…
Even the nails came on a ship
The houses in colonial America were built by local hands, but with hardware from somewhere else. According to multiple maritime histories, nearly every…
America 250
Ocean ships at the front door In colonial Virginia, you did not need to live near a port. The port came to you. According to Virginia Places, the deep…
What Frederick Douglass asked of America
In the summer of 1852, the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society invited the country’s most famous former slave to deliver what has come to be called the…