Eyeless spiders don't sound like the sorts of things you'd want to seek out, but when you find them in the Dominican Republic — well, that's something to celebrate.
Two previously unknown species of blind cave spiders were discovered two years ago in Cueva Seibo, a cave in the Dominican Republic's Parque Nacional Del Este, or East National Park. They're described in a paper published online July 30 by the Journal of Arachnology, with Lewis and Clark College research assistant Trevor Bloom as the lead author. Read More...
Before he got engaged to Princess Diana, Prince Charles proposed to another woman, Amanda Knatchbull.In Battle of Brothers: William and Harry – The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult, royal historian and biographer Robert Lacey explains that Amanda rejected Charles' proposal because she didn't want to live with the public scrutiny of a royal.The rejection stuck with Charles and reinforced his belief that no one should have to deal with the pressure of marrying into the Windsor family. Read More...
[Carmen Sandiego image courtesy producer Howard Blumenthal]
By Ade D. Adeniji Sesame Street. Magic School Bus. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Reading Rainbow. Millennials and Gen Xers were lucky enough to come of age during the prime of public educational television. But while many of us might also take this kind of programming for granted today, there was a time when educational broadcasting on both television and radio didn’t have much legs. Read More...
