More information and podcast https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/under-the-moonlight/ I especially like the description of the way the lights revealed everyone's facial blemishes and how the ash from the electrodes would fall so people had to be sure not to stand right under the lights.
How about cicada as a flavour. Yes, when the ten year brood came around one year, a local ice cream maker, Sparky's, created cicada ice cream and it sold out.
As the probe leaves the solar system, taking Tombaugh's ashes with it, and in 4 billion years when our sun swells and envelops the planets, Clyde Tombaugh will be one of the few human remnants to exist unless we have migrated to the stars as well.
Over a certain velocity of a car or aircraft, birds cannot distinguish the speed of a vehicle in order to get out of the way.http://wtop.com/science/2015/01/birds-badly-misjudge-speed-cars-planes/ However, other research had determined that they were able to learn that certain highways have higher speeds and so they take off further away from cars in these areas in order to account for their lack of interpretation of the car's speed.
Radiolab had a segment recently about Pinta Island tortoises and it had been discovered that on another island the Pinta island genetic markers existed within that island's tortoises. It is possible to bring back the Pinta Island tortoise by selectively breeding each generation for an increase of the Pinta Island genome.
However, other research had determined that they were able to learn that certain highways have higher speeds and so they take off further away from cars in these areas in order to account for their lack of interpretation of the car's speed.
http://www.npr.org/2013/12/02/248190117/teller-breaks-his-silence-to-talk-tims-vermeer
Science Friday podcast
http://castroller.com/podcasts/NprScienceFriday/3930291/download.mp3
http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all