Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala. EDIT PLACE ADD PHOTO BEEN HERE? 3 WANT TO VISIT? 5 The plaque was presented by California Avocado Society in 1946. RUDYGIRON (ATLAS OBSCURA USER) 369 In 1946, the California Avocado Society presented a plaque to the city of Antigua Guatemala. The gift was a gesture of gratitude for the
By Joe McCarthy| May 23, 2017 Twitter screenshot A lot of people take part in community clean-up efforts — spending a Saturday morning picking up litter in a park, mowing an overgrown field, or painting a fence. But not everyone has the drive to do what a young lawyer and environmentalist in Mumbai recently accomplished. In 2015, Afroz Shah moved to an apartment near Versova beach, an ignored strip of ocean near slums. He was shocked
AUTHOR: SAMANTH SUBRAMANIAN.SAMANTH SUBRAMANIAN SCIENCE DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.02.17.05.02.17 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 6:00 AM.6:00 AM ON THE OUTSKIRTS of Bangalore one morning last summer, a sullen young man named Manjunath stood high atop a cocoa-colored 1,850-gallon tanker truck, waiting for its belly to fill with water. The source of the liquid was a bore well, a cylindrical metal shaft puncturing hundreds of feet down
