Experimental Musings

There are hundreds of thousands of planes taking to the air at any given time to get us to our vacation destinations, family, meetings, and whatnot. We are all well aware that the Earth's climate is changing, but can that impact airplanes?

According to the Neilson ratings, in the first three days of November, 15.8 million people watched the first episode of the Netflix original Stranger Things! Fictional shows are all well and good, but the science world has some pretty strange facts to offer as well.

One of the ingredients of humanity is bipedalism or the ability to walk upright on two appendages. For some time now, scientists have been exploring Africa looking for our most ancient ancestors to further the story of human evolution. However, a new discovery is questioning our slow bipedal evolution.

Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico decimated in September 2017. While recovery efforts are underway, the island still faces many challenges to truly get things up and running. Google has offered to help bring the hurricane-battered island some help in their communication infrastructure using a pretty awesome approach.

The Museum just installed Richmond’s newest piece of equipment capable of making observations of the area’s weather – and it’s already broadcasting the data over the internet for us all to observe!