We know continents shift around like furniture in a room. But can you believe that Australia is on the planet's fastest moving tectonic plate and it's moving on the scale of inches per year? Far enough and fast enough that GPS tracking had to be updated.
Nation Geographic article with more deets: Nat Geo
Letting you know straight out the gate that the sound quality of this episode is...eh. We had some remote recording issues again--thanks Covid--but (get...
I've heard so many of these from my Dad around the kitchen table, we should call these "dad-isms" instead of aphorisms. Those pithy phrases...
Brunetto Latini’s Li Livres dou Tresor via British Library There are over 70 examples of knights fighting snails in illuminated manuscripts from the 1300s....