Experimental Musings

A recent study has determined the rise and fall of the Roman Empire by studying the ancient climate in ice cores. How cool is that? Ice cold, of course.

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.

This recipe is a classic Tuscan Minestrone soup, very similar to what da Vinci would have cooked as he spent much of his life in Tuscany.

Let’s close out 2016 by doing the big year-end wrap up of milestone science stories.