A lost wallet found more than 30 years later, fun online game of artifacts, and solar energy beating coal production in the US for the first time are a few of the interesting stories I’ve enjoyed in the past month.
I hope you enjoy them, too!
What I Found Interesting
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Excellent news to read about clean energy in the US during spring 2026: solar generation beat coal power production for the first month in May 2026. Solar energy is now the third-biggest source of electricity in the United States.
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Twenty-year-old Harry Ewing is part of a group of young adults with learning disabilities planting trees and clearing brambles to help them find jobs in the green sector.
I feel very happy – the trees are growing already. It’s really nice seeing it when it starts.
Training with the Harington Scheme charity, Ewing and his fellow co-workers are helping the London Tree Ring create corridors of plant and animal life to improve biodiversity around London, England.
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Looking for a fun online daily game to play?
Hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Anthropeum features ten artifacts from the museum’s collection.
Each day you’re asked to identify the place where they came from as well as their approximate age on a timeline. You can earn up to 5,000 points each for location and date.
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Mark Dexter, a former sports journalist, didn’t remember losing his wallet more than 30 years ago.
But when his wallet was recently found in Rawden in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, Dexter took a trip back memory lane as he remembered his life in the 1990’s.
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Folks who use eBird checklists to report their bird sightings are familiar with Macauley Library, where each checklist’s photos, videos, and audio recordings are archived.
Now eBird is offering the option to assign a Creative Commons license for media contributions.
Choosing a Creative Commons license is optional. Unless you choose a Creative Commons license that permits it, your media won’t be used by third parties for commercial purposes.
