The Monkeys and Parrots Caught Up in the California Gold Rush | Science
Exotic animals including parrots and monkeys served as pets and entertainment in California in the 1850s.…
Browsing Tag
california
Scars on Snails Offer a 100,000-Year Record of Crab Populations | Science
Black turban snails are small marine snails that make tasty prey for crabs. Failed crab attacks leave scars on a…
Fish Bones Found in Razed California Chinatown Reveal Complex 19th-Century Trade…
Researchers identified that these vertebrae belonged to giant snakeheads, freshwater fish native to Southeast…
The Bug That Saved California | Science
Orange and lemon groves as well as the residence of the citrus pioneer William Wolfskill, c. 1882.
California Historical…
What Does the Future Hold for the Joshua Tree? | Science
A starlit night at Joshua Tree National Park.
Getty Images
As the legend goes, it was…
Google.com was Registered 24 Years Ago Today
When 22-year-old Lawrence Page and 21-year-old Sergey Brin met for the first time at the Computer Science department of Stanford University, they disagreed with each other on almost…
Do we need humans for that job? Automation booms after Covid
“It doesn’t call sick," says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at its Arby’s franchise this year in Ontario, California. “It doesn’t get corona. And the reliability of…
How Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Offers Solutions to California’s Wildfires |…
Smithsonian Voices Smithsonian Center For Folklife & Cultural Heritage
How Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Offers Solutions to California’s Wildfires
July…
The Science of Predicting When Bluffs in Southern California Will Collapse |…
In August 2019, three women were strolling along the beach of Encinitas, California, north of San Diego, when the oceanfront bluff unexpectedly crumbled, showering…