🌈 Only you can see this | Bulletin #151

This week: a student who made history 📖

April 08, 2026

Siam Park City 📍 Bangkok, Thailand 📸 Paul Hiller

Did you know everyone sees a different rainbow? Even if you’re standing next to each other looking at the same sky, each arc depends on the sun's angle and the exact position of your eyes. The longest recorded rainbow lingered for nearly 9 hours over Taiwan, which means every observer saw their own unique, nine-hour colorful light show. 🌈

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THIS WEEK IN AWA AWESOMENESS

🇮🇳 Images of India
⛷️ A disappearing ski resort
📚 A library that changed the law
🐧 Penguins get engaged

There’s still so much to unpack from our Adventure to India - perfectly pink palaces, monkey temples, and some of the best chai we’ve ever tried. Here are just a few of the stories we stumbled upon with our friends at Skyscanner…

Chacaltaya 📍 Milluni, Bolivia 📸 Matthew Komorowski

THE WORLD’S HIGHEST SKI RESORT RAN OUT OF SNOW

In 1939, the world’s highest ski resort was born in the mountains of Bolivia thanks to a car engine being repurposed as a rope tow. For decades, Chacaltaya drew skiers from around the globe to test themselves on thin air and a notoriously difficult lift. The mountain's name, translated from Aymara, means "cold bridge,” fitting for a peak crowned by an 18,000-year-old glacier. But by the 1990s, the cold bridge had a problem...

Bizzell Memorial Library 📍 Norman, Oklahoma, USA 📸 Abdullah Çetinkaya

THE LIBRARY THAT DIDN’T STAY QUIET

In 1948, 61-year-old George McLaurin was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma, not for his qualifications, but because of his race. Yet, he refused to walk away. What followed sparked a legal battle that would reach the Supreme Court of the United States. His case became a quiet turning point in American history and is one that helped unravel segregation years before it officially fell…

A PENGUIN’S PROPOSAL

Did you know Gentoo penguins propose with pebbles? Males select the perfect stone and present it to a potential mate - if she accepts, she adds it to their nest. Recently, young patients supported by Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity gave the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo something new to consider: hand-painted pebbles in every color imaginable. The budding artists decorated dozens of stones, and a live camera now lets them watch as the penguins waddle past, pause, and occasionally select one for their own romantic offerings. The kids get to see their artwork become part of a penguin love story - and the penguins get options they'd never find in the wild. Doesn’t this idea rock?

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