We have some questions for the guys and gals in lab coats. How do bees pick a queen? Are there really parallel universes? And where did all of the windmills go? Please let us know if you have the answers to these things. Another million-dollar question not on that list is this: How do we take the heat from a 95-degree summer day in Florida and turn it into electricity? You can thank Professor Zhou Yang and team for cracking the code to that one with a brand new energy-harvesting material. Respectfully, Professor Yang can’t take all of the credit, though — the researchers took a page out of nature’s playbook, largely inspired by the way a plant transports nutrients through its stem. The result? A fancy new concrete that can harvest and store energy more efficiently than all the other concretes. According to the scientists, the design will be a big help in making our urban spaces smarter and greener as we head towards the future. But the lesson here is about more than saving energy — it’s proof that sometimes Ms. Mother Nature really is the best teacher. She’s a pretty neat lady, that one.
Too Cool for School
Imagine being nominated for a Nobel Prize. Now imagine winning that Nobel prize. Now imagine not knowing you won that Nobel Prize because you’re living your best life, hiking off-grid for the foreseeable future. Imagine that.
This Week in Buried Treasure
The divers who discovered $1 million worth of gold and silver coins in a shipwreck off the coast of Florida must have been pretty jazzed they didn’t sleep in that morning. You know what they say — the early diver gets the historical fortune.
Bodaciously Brickell
Our first event at Flow Brickell is shaping up to be a party. Which makes sense since it’s literally a disco-festival-meets-wellness experience. This Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Don’t forget your leg warmers.
Other Good News & Happenings
Fifty pianos walk into a bar…
The Anti-Bare Walls Club.
It’s mushroom peeping season, aka time to redownload iNaturalist.
Somewhere to go. A poem for a loaf, take it or leave it.
Hello, this is Ms. Sparrow speaking?
