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Relief for Northern California-Floodways Fill After 3 Dry Years

Acquired March 18, 2015:Water flowed into Yolo Bypass, a floodway between Davis and Sacramento, for the first time in three years. Acquired March 17, 2016: Source: Northern California Floodway Fills : Image of the Day

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Scans show ‘90% chance’ of hidden chambers in Tutankhamun tomb

For at least 3,339 years, nobody has seen what lies behind the west and north walls of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun.  But this secret of three millennia might not last much longer. On Thursday, Mamduh al-Damati, the Egyptian antiquities … Continue reading

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The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World | Cracked.com

A good example of this list comes from Bulgaria: “Let a hungry Carpathian long-haired she-wolf blow your dick, fuck” (Gladna Karpatska valchitza s dalag kosam minet da ti prai deeba) Who Said That? Bulgarians. Dear God Why? Bulgarian cursing is based … Continue reading

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A 35,000 y.o. bird representation and its relevance to the origins of figurative art in Europe

PARIS.- In advance of the construction of the eastern Bergerac bypass route (Dordogne), the preventive excavation realized by Inrap at the open-air doline site of Cantalouette revealed prehistoric occupations from the Middle Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. Iluminada Ortega and Laurence Bourguignon of Inrap, … Continue reading

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“Upside Down & Inside Out,” the First Music Video Filmed in Microgravity

“Upside Down & Inside Out”   Read about the creation and production of this video on Smithsonian’s Air & Space Magazine. But here’s a brief video from the band about it:  

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Embattled SeaWorld to end breeding of killer whales

Theme park operator SeaWorld said on Thursday it will stop breeding killer whales, bowing to years of pressure from animal rights activists. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc’s decision came after it pledged in November to replace its signature “Shamu” killer whale shows … Continue reading

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Cult TV Hero Xena ‘Warrior Princess’ Finally Comes out of the Closet 

For almost anyone who watched the iconic “Xena: Warrior Princess” during its late-’90s-era run, the idea that Xena and her young comrade Gabrielle were more than buddies registers mostly as a big fat “no kidding.” But while the original series … Continue reading

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More Wet Mammals

And a few other aquatic beasties…

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Surviving Shakespeare script “The Book of Sir Thomas More” urges empathy for foreigners

LONDON– The only surviving play script including William Shakespeare’s handwriting, and containing a passionate speech against xenophobia, is being put online to mark the 400th anniversary of the bard’s death, the British Library announced Tuesday. The script is a section from … Continue reading

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Aurora or Patronus?

A Patronus Aurora over Iceland  Image: Hallgrimur P. Helgason; Constellation Annotation: Judy SchmidtExplanation: By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet night last September, much of that night’s auroras had died down. Suddenly though, a new burst of particles streamed down from space, lighting up the Earth’s … Continue reading

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