Think speed limits are set for safer driving? Find out what they’re really about.

I’m not a particularly fast driver (well, not unless I’m listening to NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross), but even I wonder whether our current limits do more harm than good. I love it when videos like this shatter my intuitions about things I take as normal.

Parenting

Mom leaves note in daughter’s lunchbox after teacher divides her lunch into ‘good/bad food’

Conservation

Beavers were brought to the desert to save a dying river. Six years later, here are the results.

Parenting

Ex-teacher reveals the 4 important things she couldn’t tell parents until after she quit

Conservation

22-year-old forgoes buying a home and spends his life savings on a chunk of raw Colombian jungle