When Summer Never Came: The Global Chill After Mount Tambora’s Cataclysm
— April 28, 2026In 1816, much of the world experienced a year so strange and unsettling that…
The jumping spider is not content to sit idly in a web waiting for some hapless insect to stop by like so many other spiders. It wanders around actively looking for insects to eat, and can jump on them while trailing a safety line of spider silk behind them. Eight eyes make their field of vision nearly 180 degrees, so they don’t miss out on much. They can typically jump up to 20 times their own length. Just imagine what life would be like if these things were the size of Volkswagens. Now that’s the stuff nightmares are made of.
In 1816, much of the world experienced a year so strange and unsettling that…
On a chilly November morning in 1970, a 45-foot, eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore…
In the rolling hills of Bath County, Kentucky, an ordinary spring day in 1876…
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