Wednesday Wanderings: 12 Old/New Words, New (Cute) Mammal Discovered, Book Lovers Will Understand, Rogue Planets, and That Fresh After Rain Smell

~ M.A. Kropp

Here are twelve words that just might be older than you realize. Just one more example of what goes around, comes around:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51150/12-old-words-survived-getting-fossilized-idioms

A new mammal species was discovered recently. Oddly enough, there was one in a zoo for a long time, but zoologists thought it was one of a different (known) species. The article is interesting, but, really, just look at that face. Awwww:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/olinguito-new-mammal-species_n_3761649.html

For all the book lovers out there, here are seventeen problems that (perhaps) only you will understand. IF so, don’t feel alone. I suffer, too:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/harpercollins/17-problems-only-book-lovers-will-understand-9npd

Rogue planets. Just floating away in space. There’s gotta be a story in there somewhere:

http://io9.com/rogue-planets-can-form-without-a-parent-star-1172463053

Love that amazing after rain smell? Me, too. Now they are going to burst my bubble as to what really causes it. I can’t have any nice things anymore, can I?:

http://io9.com/what-really-causes-that-amazing-after-the-rain-smell-1167869568

And that is what I found interesting this week. I hope you enjoy, also!