Twenty-two states have no national park (21, if you include the part of Yellowstone in Idaho). They include: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho (sorta), Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin. … [Read more...] about What’s the Difference Between a National Park and National Monument?
Is the Carolina Reaper the World’s Hottest Pepper?
A second group is made of the challengers — the people you see on YouTube or drawing a crowd at a fair. You'll often see them throwing up at the end of their videos. "What's making them sick is the gallon of milk they're drinking too fast, not the pepper," Currie said. "There's no actual heat in a pepper. The heat is a result of a chemical reaction that happens in your body, triggered by capsaicinoids in the peppers reacting with sensory neurons. Our bodies perceive the heat." … [Read more...] about Is the Carolina Reaper the World’s Hottest Pepper?
