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4 of the World's Weirdest Weather Phenomena


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Learn about how babies' random choices become their preferences, why modern agriculture requires “migratory beekeeping” — basically, taking honeybees on road trips, and four of the world’s weirdest weather phenomena.

Just like adults, babies' random choices become their preferences by Kelsey Donk

  • Babies’ random choices become their preferences. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/jhu-brc100120.php
  • Silver, A. M., Stahl, A. E., Loiotile, R., Smith-Flores, A. S., & Feigenson, L. (2020). When Not Choosing Leads to Not Liking: Choice-Induced Preference in Infancy. Psychological Science, 095679762095449. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620954491

Why modern agriculture relies on driving honeybees around the country by Ashley Hamer

  • Ferris Jabr. (2013). The Mind-Boggling Math of Migratory Beekeeping. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/migratory-beekeeping-mind-boggling-math/
  • Rosner, H. (2013). Return of the Natives. Scientific American, 309(3), 70–75. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0913-70

4 of the world's weirdest weather phenomena by Reuben Westmaas

  • Wikipedia Contributors. (2020, October 26). Blood rain. Wikipedia; Wikimedia Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_rain
  • McKie, R., & Gentleman, A. (2006, March 5). Red rain could prove that aliens have landed. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/mar/05/spaceexploration.theobserver
  • Gangappa, R., & Hogg, S. I. (2013). DNA unmasked in the red rain cells of Kerala. Microbiology, 159(Pt_1), 107–111. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.062711-0
  • Lluvia de Peces (Rain of Fish). (2010, June 28). Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lluvia-de-peces-the-rain-of-fish
  • Giant “Bugnado” Swarms In America’s Heartland. (2011, August 20). NPR.Org. https://www.npr.org/2011/08/20/139815838/giant-bugnado-swarms-in-americas-heartland
  • Andrea Thompson,Climate Central. (2014, August 11). How Do Dust Devils Form? Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-dust-devils-form/
  • Observer-Reporter - Google News Archive Search. (2010). Google.Com. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19940820&id=bZtiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8HcNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3943,6442421
  • Strange & Unexplained Things in Science: Star Jelly. (2015, April 27). Futurism; Futurism. https://futurism.com/strange-unexplained-things-science-star-jelly

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