Experienced a week in the Amazonian Jungle.  Drove in the most dangerous road – Death Road in Yungas. Accessed Rosalila temple in the undergrounds of the Mayan Ruins built 6^th century. Traveled to the End of the World in Patagonia. Gave a glass of wine to the deceased Queen of England.

On August 6, 2014, the Rosetta space probe reached a Comet 67P after a 10 year journey through space. In order to reach the velocity needed to catch up with 67P, Rosetta performed 3 gravity assisted flybys (like a slingshot), 2 by Earth and 1 by Mars. Rosetta travelled a total of 4 billion miles to reach Comet 67P, which at that time was travelling 34,000 mph — but she was not done. Slowing down to a relative velocity of 2.2 mph (by completing 3 arc maneuvers), Rosetta began orbiting 67P and on November 12th dropped the Philae lander ON THE COMET from an approximate distance of 20 miles. Science is wild, y’all.

Columbia is one of only TWO southern cities with Class 4-5 rapids running through it. High-five Richmond, VA!

If not for the Fungi Kingdom, life as we know it would not exist. Almost every single aspect of our ancient and modern world revolves around our symbiotic relationship with fungi. Fungi are more closely related to humans than they are to plants – you could even say we are cousins. Some fungi even have the innate ability to clear up all man-made pollution, if given the time. A fungus among us, am I right?

You can sneeze faster than a cheetah can run. A sneeze clocks in at 100 mph and blasts about 100,000 germs. Please cover your sneezes, wash your hands, and mask up!

Your face is older than your feet. Einstein’s theory of relativity tells us that the closer you are to the center of the Earth, the slower time goes. Therefore, time is actually passing faster at your head, than it is at your feet. If you were to stand at the top of Mount Everest, a year would be 15 microseconds shorter than someone who is standing on the beach. All of this may be a moot point, however, as some physicists have proposed that time itself could be slowing, and in a few billion years everything as we know it today will be just like a picture – frozen in time.