Extremely rare—and sacred—white buffalo calf born in Yellowstone
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Click Here to Read: Extremely rare—and sacred—white buffalo calf born in Yellowstone: “There are prophecies about white buffalo calves being born at a time of great change,” says one expert. How rare are white bison—and what does this birth mean? By Jason Bittel on the National Geographic website on June 13, 2024.

White Bison Image: eileenmak  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin
By Categories: Politics

Click Here to Read: Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin: YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It’s become “indispensable” to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage on the Wired website.

Vladmir Putin.  Image: The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The tragic backstory of one of the most haunted roads in America
By Categories: History

Click Here to Read: The tragic backstory of one of the most haunted roads in America: Generations continue to grapple with ghostly tales along the incomplete “Road to Nowhere” and its dead-end tunnel in North Carolina By Sara Murphy in the National Geographic on May 30, 2024.

Entrance sign to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Lakeview Drive (a.k.a. Road to Nowhere). Image: Washuotaku.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.