Sabrina Imbler

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Sabrina Imbler

NowBoy Accidentally Orders 70,000 Lollipops on Amazon. Panic Ensues. Holly LaFavers said she was eventually refunded $4,200 for her 8-year-old son’s order of Dum-Dums candy. On Sunday morning, as Holly LaFavers was preparing to go to church, a delivery worker dropped off a 25-pound box of lollipops in front of her apartment building in Lexington, Ky. And another.

1 month ago | defector.com | Sabrina Imbler

The way Amanda Cronin sees it, her environmental education began at the farmers' market in her hometown in New York's Hudson Valley. She marveled at the sheer abundance of produce, so much so that, at age 11, she became the market's on-camera personality.

1 month ago | defector.com | Sabrina Imbler

In the light of the moon glimmering over just six square miles of a mountain range on O‘ahu, a little egg waited to hatch. One Sunday morning the sun rose over the mountains and—pop!—out of the egg came a tiny and very grisly caterpillar. For now, the caterpillar looked as innocent as any other larva. But unlike 99.87 percent of the nearly 200,000 species of moths and butterflies that eat leaves, this caterpillar was carnivorous, meaning the only thing he hungered for was flesh.

1 month ago | defector.com | Sabrina Imbler

As a child, Claire Sneed had a morbid fascination with natural disasters. In first grade, she followed NOAA's online storm tracker. Later she witnessed Hurricanes Irene and Sandy sweep past her home in the Philadelphia area. On visits to Santa Fe to see her grandfather, Sneed marveled at the dramatic cliffs of Bandelier National Monument, which were formed by staggering volcanic explosions a million years ago.

1 month ago | defector.com | Sabrina Imbler

Madyson Miller's Florida childhood was almost like a crash course in marine biology. She grew up going to the beach and going with her grandparents to see Shamu—"which I obviously realize now is not the kind of value system I have when it comes to animal care," Miller caveats. But she wasn't sure if she wanted to pursue science—she dreamed of being on Broadway—until a teacher told her she had what it takes. Miller, a first-generation college student, initially struggled in university.