Plus, curbing cow burps, 9 epic train trips
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| | The water is streaming down on you. The dog is gliding along on the leash. Whether you’re in the shower or out for a walk, you often may seem to get a great idea, or come up with a long-sought solution to a problem.
Science has figured out why. Latest research says these breakthroughs occur during brain activity while “an individual is resting or performing habitual tasks that don’t require much attention,” Stacey Colino writes for Nat Geo. “It’s decidedly associated with mind-wandering,” psychological scientist Jonathan Schooler tells us.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MARIO TAMA, GETTY IMAGES | | Global warming game changer? The newly signed $369 billion Inflation Reduction Act includes a first-ever fee for organizations that spew methane gas—one of the biggest contributors to global warming—beginning in 2024. The law doesn’t address the cow in the room—agriculture, another big methane producer. Still, “I think this is huge and transformational progress,” Environmental Defense Fund’s Dan Grossman tells Nat Geo. (Pictured above, oil wells, a source of methane leakage, pump in McKittrick, California.)
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| New cave passages: Photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Robbie Shone knows his way around caves. In fact, he once had to climb for his life out of a flooding cave in the country of Georgia. In this post on our Instagram page, Shone shows a team of British explorers discovering a network of passages that spread for many miles within Mount Benarat, in Malaysian Borneo. Researchers here are attempting to reconstruct the tropical climate, going far back in time.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN PALMER, KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY | | A banana crossed with a pineapple and a mango? The pawpaw (pictured above) is America’s largest fruit. The creamy fruit tastes like these tropical treats, with notes of vanilla. Despite its delicious flavors, most Americans have never heard of it, Nat Geo reports. Try some for yourself this peak pawpaw season, from now to mid-October.
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Correction: In yesterday’s newsletter, we had the right direction but the wrong departure and arrival points for the particular Amtrak Zephyr in the image. The eastbound train was headed from San Francisco to Chicago. Thanks to readers Betsy Carr, Wallace Gibson, and Kevin Christiano for keeping us on our toes.
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