IN A NUTSHELL 🌲 The checkerboard pattern in Idaho’s forests is a result of 19th-century forestry practices that balanced timber harvesting and regeneration. 📷 Captured from space, the pattern is most visible under snow and spans approximately five miles, illustrating the long-term impact of human land use. 🚤 The Priest River was historically used for log driving, a practice replaced …
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We are regularly bombarded with information about a steep drop in attention spans. Based on its own data in 2015, Microsoft reported that the average attention span had dropped from about 12 seconds for millennials to eight seconds for gen Z. And as the new Premier League season kicked off, UEFA introduced a new “eight seconds rule” stating a goalkeeper …
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Earth’s history is divided up into different geological wedges of time, wedges we like to call things like epochs, periods, and eons. They’re defined by events that shaped the planet (think big extinctions and biodiversity booms), and it’s generally been accepted that the boundaries between them are randomly distributed. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign …
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