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Drop what you're doing — this is more important. Oregon sculptor Jud Turner has built a life-sized model of a Columbia mammoth skeleton, he's done it with 95% recycled materials (mostly old farming equipment and agricultural tools), and it's probably the most jaw-droppingly bad-ass thing I've ever laid my eyes on. More »
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There is nothing better than a detailed visual aid to help me really understand what a UFO looked like. Here you can see what one person witnessed, over an Oregon town. Some, the artist admits, is extrapolation. More »
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In 1999, an accidental shotgun blast severely damage the face of 16-year-old Chrissy Steltz. 11 years later, Steltz was fitted for a prosthetic face that allows her to go out in public without wearing her usual cloth facial mask. More »
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Known for spewing liquid rock, ash clouds, and noxious gases into the atmosphere, volcanoes seem unlikely candidates for solving Global Warming. But the rocks the fiery mountains leave behind may be exactly that, according to scientists at Columbia University. They say that sequestering carbon dioxide in volcanic rocks beneath the ocean may be the best way yet to socking the CO2 away, out of the atmosphere, and making sure it never haunts us again. More »
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