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Daily Edition • July 21, 2025 SUPPORTED BY You may know about the waterfalls of Yosemite or the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon, but U.S. national parks are home to a whole host of fascinating natural phenomena and little-known mysteries. Smithsonian Magazine recently rounded up a list of seven, from the lost colony of Roanoke, Virginia, to the potential meteorite site in Utah. If you feel inspired after reading the list, consider supporting the parks by donating to our summer fundraiser with the…Read more
- New geoparks are worth adding to your travel list
Daily Edition • April 11, 2024 SUPPORTED BY It’s National Pet Day, an opportunity to celebrate all the joy our furry friends bring into our lives (and post adorable pictures of them on social media, of course). In honor of the occasion, we have a pet-related story that’s sure to tug at any animal lover’s heartstrings: Mishka, the beloved family dog of the San Diego-based Houmans, ran away from home last summer. After they spent months searching and hoping, though, the terrier mix was found in...
- New regulation will curb pollution — and hopefully cancer
Daily Edition • April 10, 2024 SUPPORTED BY You’ve heard of dystopias and utopias, but what about protopias? A protopia is a positive, realistic vision of the future — the opposite of a dystopia, and a step down from a utopia, which is impossibly idealized. Activist and philanthropist Kathryn Murdoch thinks we need to be seeing more media content demonstrating how we can achieve a better tomorrow, which is why she executive-produced a new PBS show, A Brief History of the Future, that aims to...
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Daily Edition • April 9, 2024 SUPPORTED BY It’s no secret that the U.S. housing market is tough right now, especially for first-time buyers. But there are some spots across the country where homeownership is easier to achieve, according to a new ranking from Zillow. The company used four metrics — rent affordability, available inventory, ratio of affordable for-sale inventory to renter households, and the share of households ages 29-43 — to come up with a list of the 10 best markets for...