Here’s how far Mainers live from their mothers, and what researchers think it says about us
This has a lot to do with education, economics and opportunity, experts say.
Here’s one crazy way to reduce deer-car crashes: Coat their antlers with reflective paint
That’s one way to make the roads safer. Finnish reindeer herders paint the animals’ antlers with reflective paint so drivers will hopefully hit fewer of them, according to the website Atlas Obscura. In the Lapland region of the country, there are tons of reindeer just roaming around, including on the roads. That’s probably a pretty impressive […]
How Friday’s forecast compares with the record highs and lows of Christmas past
Who remembers how cold Christmas was in Bangor in 1980?
What a Bowdoin researcher has learned about the tiny mites crawling on your face
It turns out that no one really knows much about these mites.
It’s always sunny in York County… relatively speaking. Interactive map shows sunlight across Maine
As fall turns to winter, Mainers are reminded just how precious sunlight is. Whereas in July, we could linger in the sun’s rays until after 8 p.m., in December it’s dark out before we leave work each day. In a color-coded, interactive map currently being discussed on the chat board site Reddit, the average daily […]
How archaeologists followed the clues of a mystery shipwreck from New Jersey to Maine
Piecing together the clues to determine a ship’s identity nearly a century after it wrecked can be tricky business.
As Maine went? Map shows how the state lost its place as a presidential predictor
This map is making the rounds on the discussion board site Reddit — the credits can be found in the bottom right corner — and shows how frequently each state voted for the eventual winners in the presidential elections over the last century. As you can see, despite the old political adage “As Maine goes, […]
Watch the shapes of Maine and the rest of the states evolve over 400 years
What we think of today as Maine lacked its top half until the 1760s, and was of course a part of Massachusetts until 1820.
Can’t get there from here: Century-old map shows how much more remote Maine used to be
It took about a week to get to Maine from London, for instance.
The time a young legislative aide from Maine uncovered a Soviet Cold War spy circle
Bath native Marc Zimmerman was a legislative aide for then-U.S. Rep. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, in 1983 — still about eight years before the end of the Cold War — when he received a seemingly innocent request from a Soviet fertilizer researcher and tour guide. Connected through a mutual friend, Zimmerman agreed to meet with Alexander Nikolavevich […]
