Experimental Musings

In a cool turn of events, Facebook “liked” us! The social media giant just announced it will be building its newest state-of-the-art data center in Virginia! Data centers require a lot of energy, but Facebook has some cutting-edge plans.

One of the ingredients of humanity is bipedalism or the ability to walk upright on two appendages. For some time now, scientists have been exploring Africa looking for our most ancient ancestors to further the story of human evolution. However, a new discovery is questioning our slow bipedal evolution.

Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico decimated in September 2017. While recovery efforts are underway, the island still faces many challenges to truly get things up and running. Google has offered to help bring the hurricane-battered island some help in their communication infrastructure using a pretty awesome approach.

The Museum just installed Richmond’s newest piece of equipment capable of making observations of the area’s weather – and it’s already broadcasting the data over the internet for us all to observe!

This year’s hurricane season has been quite intense, to say the least! Hurricane season is not even over and we've already seen some big storms that have broken records, one after the other.