Hawaii battles strong winds and rain as Hurricane Lala threat looms

Gorging on bearcam: the livestream of big beasts eating that draws millions

Environment | The Guardian · 1d ago

People form judgments about a stranger’s trustworthiness and competence after seeing their face for just one-tenth of a second — and Princeton researchers found that more viewing time did surprisingly little to change the impression, mostly making people more confident in it.

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We tend to picture the Sahara as an eternal desert, but sediment cores and cave paintings show that as recently as 6,000 years ago it was a green savanna crossed by rivers and lakes, populated by hippos, crocodiles and cattle-herding people whose rock art still survives on the walls of Tassili n’Ajjer

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Quote by Viktor Frankl: Between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space is our power to choose our response, and in our response lies our growth and our freedom

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We assume the deepest parts of the ocean are dark and empty, but the walls of the Mariana Trench hold snailfish drifting five miles down under pressure equivalent to a car pressing on every square centimetre of skin, their bones half-dissolved into cartilage so they can bend instead of shatter

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In 1859, a geomagnetic storm now called the Carrington Event lit up auroras bright enough to read a newspaper by in the Caribbean, set telegraph offices on fire from Boston to Paris, and let operators send messages after unplugging their batteries because the wires themselves were carrying the current

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