Curiosity

Every month, the Museum's Curator of Fishes, Dr. Chris Thacker, takes you behind the scenes at NHMLA to meet our scientists.

"Mental Floss delivers smart, fun and shareable content in an upbeat and witty environment.

An encyclopedia of everything, we answer life’s big questions and uncover stories so interesting our readers absolutely must share them."

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).

"TodayIFoundOut.com was founded on January 1, 2010, based on the idea that it is always good to learn something new every day.  It was originally inspired by the wonderful sub-reddit “Today I Learned“, which is one of our favorite subscriptions on reddit.  There also seemed a decided lack of “interesting fact” style websites out there where the facts presented were well researched."