Switch Explorer website helps college students transfer from highschool to CUNY

Twin enrollment gives college students the chance to earn faculty credit whereas nonetheless in highschool. Over the past decade, the variety of college students who’ve participated in dual-enrollment programs has practically doubled, with no indicators of slowing down. Nationwide, 82 p.c of highschool college students attend a faculty that provides twin enrollment, and by commencement, about…

The Mushroom Shade Atlas: An Interactive Internet Web site Lets You Discover the Unimaginable Spectrum of Colours Created from Fungi

Enter the Mush­room Col­or Atlas, and you may dis­cov­er the “beau­ti­ful and sub­tle col­ors derived from dye­ing with mush­rooms.” Fea­tur­ing 825 col­ors, every asso­ci­at­ed with dif­fer­ent forms of mush­rooms, the inter­ac­tive atlas allows you to appre­ci­ate the broad spec­trum of col­ors latent within the enjoyable­gi king­dom. The shades, tints, and hues will sur­prise you. Julie…

The Web Archive Rescues MTV Information’ Net Website, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Once more

Picture by way of Inter­internet Archive Final month, MTV Information’ site went miss­ing. Or a minimum of nearly all of it did, includ­ing an archive of sto­ries going again to 1997. To a few of us, and espe­cial­ly to these of us sufficiently old to have grown up watch­ing MTV on actu­al tele­vi­sion, that received’t…

2000-Yr-Outdated Bottle of White Wine Present in a Roman Burial Web site

Picture through Jour­nal of Archae­o­log­i­cal Sci­ence: Experiences Again in 2017, we fea­tured the previous­est unopened bot­tle of wine on this planet right here on Open Cul­ture. Present in Spey­er, Ger­many, in 1867, it dates from 350 AD, mak­ing it a ven­er­a­ble vin­tage certainly, however one latest­ly out­accomplished by a bot­tle first dis­cov­ered 5 years in…