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Memorial Day - Digital Nomad

digitalnomad.nationalgeographic.com — At the very moment of the final top ten round of the the 25th anniversary National Geographic Bee (congrats Sathwik Karnik!), yours truly was sitting on a stool in a glass-walled television studio at 30 Rockefeller Place undergoing a more gentle interrogation on the Today Show.
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Longest Burmese Python Found in Florida

newswatch.nationalgeographic.com — A Florida man recently found an 18.8-foot-long (5.7-meter-long) Burmese python-the longest ever found in the state. That's exactly a foot longer than the former record-holder, caught in August 2012, which measured 17.7 feet (5.4 meters).

Dissolving electronics - medical sensors that disintegrate

By Ed Yong
phenomena.nationalgeographic.com — When I last spoke to John Rogers from the University of Illinois, we talked about his new " electronic skin" - a patch that can be applied like a temporary tattoo, that monitor heartbeats and brain activity, and that flexes and bends without breaking. We talked about his curved camera, inspired by the human eye.