Mon. 02/01 - February's Mars Invasion

Cool Stuff Daily · Feb 1, 2021 · 19m

Sharing some thoughts from Langston Hughes on this first day of Black History Month, and questioning what makes someone a hero in our history books. Plus, the discovery of a new blue pigment. And all the Mars news for February.

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We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on Race in a Rare Recording (Brain Pickings)

Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes (Open Culture)

How We Celebrate Black Heroes Can Obscure How Change Happens (NY Times)

13TH (Netflix)

For the First Time in 200 Years, a New…