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I spent this rainy Vancouver morning with a cup of coffee and the latest issue of National Geographic, and wow. I’ve always been fascinated by Pompeii, but I thought I knew the whole story. Turns out, I didn’t. The idea that we can now use AI to read charred, 2,000-year-old scrolls is just wild. It … Read more

I’m a total sucker for anything involving ancient history, so I finally curled up to watch that new Pompeii documentary with Tom Hiddleston. The whole premise is that his version of Loki, the God of Stories, is here to set the record straight on the eruption of Vesuvius. It’s a really fun way to look … Read more

I came across this video the other day and I just can’t get it out of my head. It shows an orca literally smashing a sunfish to bits. One holds it by the tail, and the other just rams it at full speed. The real puzzle here is… why? Sunfish are the heaviest bony fish … Read more

I was scrolling the other day and this little guy completely stopped me in my tracks. I just had to share it. There’s something so captivating about watching a red panda navigate the world—that bright orange fur against all the green is just stunning. This one is at a zoo in Darjeeling, India, and seeing … Read more

I was scrolling the other day when this photo from Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark completely stopped me. Just look at this juvenile Andean fox. My first thought was just about how cute he is, but then I read the caption and learned something incredible. We usually think of foxes as just predators, right? And this … Read more

Sometimes nature just stops you in your tracks. I mean, look at this sun glass frog. Its skin is literally transparent. You can see right through to its bones and organs. It’s a wild, beautiful, and slightly bizarre reminder of how complex even the smallest creatures are. #PhotoArk

I keep coming back to this photo of Alex Honnold on El Capitan. It’s one of those images that just stops you in your tracks. To see a single person on that 3,000-foot wall of granite, with no ropes or safety gear, is just staggering. What photographer Jimmy Chin captured isn’t just an athletic achievement; … Read more

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole the other day and learned something that just blew my mind. I had no idea that some sharks can navigate across entire oceans, covering distances pretty much comparable to the Earth’s circumference. It’s wild to think about. They have this amazing sensory system in their snouts … Read more

I was scrolling through the news the other day and a headline just stopped me in my tracks. It was about the new changes being proposed to the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and my heart just sank. This act has done so much good, saving nearly 300 species from being lost forever since the 70s. … Read more

For a long time, I thought the problem was me. I’ve been navigating chronic pain for years, and the constant cycle of trying treatments that didn’t work was so incredibly frustrating. You start to feel like you’re making it up, or that you’re just not trying hard enough. Then I started digging into the research … Read more