2. Which Spring Flower Are You?
Spring Planting at White House Kitchen Garden in 2014
The Destruction of Herculaneum: Vesuvius Claimed More Than One Victim
The First Georgians: Art and Monarchy – Queen’s Gallery
Bunnies, Eggs, and Goddesses: Is Easter a Pagan or a Christian Festival?
Tambora 1815: History’s Largest Eruption and the “Year Without a Summer”
William Hogarth and The First Georgians: Social Commentary On Show
Kids, Technology, and Moderation: Developing People Smart Skills
3. Start-Up Business Activity and the Health
of the U.S. Economy
Good Moon Risin’ – Red Moon At Night,
Everyone’s Delight
Hornworts Loan Genes to Ferns for Shady
Environments
Runaway/Throwaway Children: Predictors
and Preventions
Post-It-Notes For Feet: Sticky Protein
Enhances Starfish Stride
Weather Around The World This Week:
Pick Your Poison
Major Earthquakes in the Western Pacific
and Nicaragua: 11-17 April 2014
New Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa:
Who’s in Danger?
Mexico’s Good Friday Earthquake: M7.2, 18
April 2014
Solar System Chemistry: Snow Line,
Thermodynamics, and the Proto-planetary
Disk
Relative Social Status by Gender and
Intimate Partner Violence in India
Kepler-186f: How Astronomers Discovered
an Earth-Sized Planet in a Star’s Habitable
Zone
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4.
5. Which Spring Flower Are You?
APRIL 13, 2014 BY DECODEDPLANTS
Picture by Decoded Plants.
6. Spring Planting at White House Kitchen
Garden in 2014
APRIL 16, 2014 BY CHRIS EIRSCHELE
The First Lady waters in seeds with Silas Stutz of Bancroft
and Dynasty Meade from Friendship. Copyright image by
Chris Eirschele, all rights reserved.
7.
8. The Destruction of Herculaneum: Vesuvius
Claimed More Than One Victim
APRIL 14, 2014 BY NATASHA SHELDON
View of Herculaneum from the former sea front. The
suburban baths and beachside arches are in the
foreground, overlooked on the terrace above by seaside
villas. Copyright image by Natasha Sheldon, all rights
reserved.
9. The First Georgians: Art and Monarchy –
Queen’s Gallery
APRIL 15, 2014 BY FRANCES SPIEGEL
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, London: The
Thames from Somerset House Terrace towards
Westminster, c. 1750. Royal Collection Trust/c Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II 2013 used with permission. All rights
reserved.
10. Bunnies, Eggs, and Goddesses: Is Easter a
Pagan or a Christian Festival?
APRIL 17, 2014 BY NATASHA SHELDON
Symbol of the resurrection of Christ from a Fourth
Century Roman sarcophagus. Photo credit: Jastrow
11. Tambora 1815: History’s Largest Eruption
and the “Year Without a Summer”
APRIL 18, 2014 BY JENNIFER YOUNG
Indonesia’s Mount Tambora produced the largest
volcanic eruption of historic time. Image: NASA
12. William Hogarth and The First Georgians:
Social Commentary On Show
APRIL 20, 2014 BY FRANCES SPIEGEL
William Hogarth’s Trade Card, 1760.
Image by Frances Spiegel, taken with permission from
The Queen’s Gallery. All rights reserved.
13.
14. Kids, Technology, and Moderation:
Developing People Smart Skills
APRIL 17, 2014 BY JULIE LEMMING
The amount of time spent with different kinds of screens
can impact kids’ ability to effectively communicate. Image
by Fidler Jan
15.
16. Start-Up Business Activity and the Health
of the U.S. Economy
APRIL 14, 2014 BY WALTER MCLAUGHLIN
President Obama meets with small business owners in
the Roosevelt Room, recognizing that start-up
businesses are an important barometer of the overall
economy. Image by Pete Souza
17. Good Moon Risin’ – Red Moon At
Night, Everyone’s Delight
APRIL 14, 2014 BY JON PLOTKIN
The totally eclipsed moon looks blood red. Photo
courtesy of NOAA
18. Hornworts Loan Genes to Ferns for Shady
Environments
APRIL 14, 2014 BY VIJAY SHANKAR BALAKRISHNAN, PHD
How did ferns evolve the ability to utilize low levels of
light? Image courtesy of Fay-Wei Li
20. Post-It-Notes For Feet: Sticky Protein
Enhances Starfish Stride
APRIL 15, 2014 BY VIJAY SHANKAR BALAKRISHNAN, PHD
Starfish walk by moving their tiny “tube feet” which
resemble minuscule elephant feet. Image by Jade.
21. Weather Around The World This Week:
Pick Your Poison
APRIL 15, 2014 BY JON PLOTKIN
Winter Storm Zephyr, now just a cold front along the
eastern seaboard, left cold temperature records in Her
wake. Courtesy of NOAA
22. Major Earthquakes in the Western Pacific
and Nicaragua: 11-17 April 2014
APRIL 17, 2014 BY JENNIFER YOUNG
Earthquakes 11-17 April 2014. Image credit: USGS
23. New Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa:
Who’s in Danger?
APRIL 18, 2014 BY JANELLE VAESA, MPH
This slide shows the changes in the tissue due to the
Ebola Virus, as well as the presence of the virus. Image
by the CDC.
24. Mexico’s Good Friday Earthquake: M7.2, 18
April 2014
APRIL 18, 2014 BY JENNIFER YOUNG
The location of the M7.2 Good Friday earthquake, 2014.
Image credit: USGS
25. Solar System Chemistry: Snow
Line, Thermodynamics, and the Proto-
planetary Disk
APRIL 18, 2014 BY JOHN JAKSICH
Our solar system is visually-striking, but what is the
chemistry behind it? Image courtesy of NASA
26. Relative Social Status by Gender and
Intimate Partner Violence in India
APRIL 20, 2014 BY JENNIFER DUBOIS
Education, employment, and intimate partner violence
are all related. Image by singhajay
27. Kepler-186f: How Astronomers Discovered
an Earth-Sized Planet in a Star’s Habitable
Zone
APRIL 20, 2014 BY PAUL A. HECKERT, PH.D.
This is an artist’s depiction of Kepler-186f , the first
validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the
habitable zone. Image Credit: NASA Ames/SETI
Institute/JPL-Caltech
