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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Ice
Despite more than 150 years’ worth of study and experimentation, no one really knows why ice is slippery. More speed skating world records have been broken in Utah Continue reading
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How Not to Get Stuck in a Tar Seep
13. Learn how to identify one. Nicknamed “death traps,” tar seeps are ghostly pools of raw oil that creep up from tectonic fractures and spread across the earth like tacky flypaper. Continue reading
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6 Words I’m Trying Not to Use to Describe Land
Primeval Something about the land, usually a forest—giant trees dripping with moss, crusted with lichen, a tangled understory dense with growth—conjures the word primeval. But I have learned this is inaccurate. Continue reading
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21 Roadside Spills
A semi driver swerves around a herd of deer, and just like that, molasses oozes onto the streets of Wagontire, Oregon. A truck turns over in Continue reading
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9 Rules for the Woke Birdwatcher
Lower your binoculars. See bird and person in the full context of their being, feathers or skin. Continue reading