FRESHEST 103.5

MOST IMPORTANT STATION ON THE NET

Current track

Title

Artist

Background

maps

Earth is headed toward unrecognizable changes. According to researchers at Curtin University in Australia and Peking University in China, the world will experience a geological reconfiguration caused by the Pacific Ocean’s inevitable disappearance. The study, published by the National Science Review, highlights the fact that the globe’s oldest and largest ocean began shrinking during the dinosaur era, and continues to lose a few centimeters […]

Nine years after a group of researchers from Yale put together the “Map of Life,” which provides a database that pins where known species live across the globe, they have now put together a map that attempts to locate areas where yet-to-be-discovered species may reside.  The goal, according to the guy who spearheaded the project (Yale ecology and […]

When it comes to refreshingly mild attempts at a jovial April Fools mini-prank, Google is currently in the lead. Overnight, Google tucked a version of the vaguely vintage game Snake into its Maps app, most assuredly as a way of ringing in the first of April. They also launched a standalone site for anyone whose […]