John Franklin Enders was born on February 10th, 1897, at West Hartford, Connecticut. He is known for culturing polio virus, isolating the measles virus, and developing the measles vaccine. Enders’ studies were interrupted by World War I, where he served as a pilot, but he returned to Yale to earn his Bachelor’s Degree and then
A parasite called rat lungworm, which gets into people’s brains, has infected more than a dozen people including toddlers in the continental United States in recent years per federal officials. And more cases may have gone unreported, because the parasite often does not cause severe symptoms, and it’s been found across several states. Rat Lungworm
Is the Big One coming? An earthquake erupted in June 2020 northeast of Bakersfield with a magnitude of 5.8 that had physicists and geolists claiming ‘we are way overdue’ for a cataclysmic seismic event. Although California, which sits within the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, is frequently hit by earthquakes, many people fear a cataclysmic event, or
Sir Isaac Newton was realistic in his summation of how much we understand the universe, but thanks to his scientific contributions, that drop multiplied. Newton was born prematurely in England on January 4, 1643. Newton’s father died before he was born, and he was raised largely by his maternal grandmother because he disliked his stepfather.
Lệ Mật is a village in Viet Hung Ward, Long Bien District. It is northeast of Hanoi by about 7km and is nicknamed “Snake Village.” The village is famous for its snake catching and specialty snake meat processing. As Anthony Bourdain found out on behalf of CNN you can also eat the still beating cobra heart from one of its
Clown Face Spiders
Yes Virginia, they’re really are arachnids that look like clowns. Clown Face Spiders, or the Theridion grallator, more commonly known as the “happy face spider” are colorful spiders native to Hawaii. Paradise’s Clown Face Spiders Four Hawaiian islands (Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Hawaii) host the Clown Face Spiders, where it is known in the local language as
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