“ The‘ if it bleeds ’ rule works for mass media, " says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania." They want your eyeballs and don ’t care how you're feeling. But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react. You don't want...
Death Valley National Park is in the zone between the Great Basin Desert and the Mojave Desert… …and has both the second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere at Badwater Basin, and is the hottest place on Earth, and the driest place in North America. Furnace Creek in Death Valley hold...
My husband once admitted that he thought that was the objective of planting - not to let any dirt - excuse me - SOIL - show. (It's soil when you plant in it. It's dirt when you track the same stuff all over the clean kitchen floor.) Now I have seen gardens where each plant i...
For example, their maps show cocoa growing across Ghana despite this crop in reality being excluded from the arid northern two-thirds of the country. Therefore we used the Global Agro-Ecological Zone climatic suitability maps (IIASA/FAO, 2012) to clip the Monfreda maps to define the likely ...
Downtown Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after the disastrous flood of 1889. Photo courtesy NOAA Photo courtesy NOAA In addition to destroying Johnstown, the wall of water also flooded towns farther "downstream," including Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy NOAA Photo courtesy NOAA Dam Failure Sometimes...
Know your planting zone:View your plant hardiness zone Map for gardeners and growers to determine which plants are most likely to thrive in their community. (U.S. Department of Agriculture / FOX Weather) HOW WEATHER AFFECTS WHAT’S ON THANKSGIVING’S MENU ...
Sept. 12: Pennsylvania man charged with drugging and raping women he met on dating site Sept. 13: ‘The Roaring Lion’ portrait of Winston Churchill stolen from Canadian hotel is found in Italy Sept. 14: Inside Japan’s biggest prison: home to yakuza… and hundreds of old men Sept. 26:...
“Design Zone” is a highly interactive, hands-on exhibit where visitors explore creative concepts to learn the processes and tools needed to create a successful design. “Design Zone” is organized into three thematic zones, all highlighting the importance of science and mathematical thinking in ar...
2018 is the “Year of the Dog” according to Chinese zodiac. 37th Annual Chinese New Year Celebration On January 27, there will be a special event in Philadelphia to welcome in the “Year of the Dog” when the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (33rd and Spru...
And now she wants a no-fly zone in Syria. [Clip: “I’m going to continue to push for a no-fly zone and safe havens within Syria.”] That means lots of women and children dying. [Clip: “What about the option of controlling the air space so that barrel bombs can’t be dropped...