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All those frozen days melt away when you see the face of Princess Puffy.

“Spring is here, finally! Princess Puffy, the baby box turtle, emerged from her hibernation today and woke up HONGRY! Here she is nomming on egg white and salad. It’s her first meal in 5 1/2 months.
I sure did miss my little Princess.” -Linda

 

Order in the Court!

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World Not Ready for Climate Change, New Report Says

The United Nations-affiliated IPCC is an association of thousands of scientists from around the world that was founded in 1988. Since then it has released a report on the current state of scientific knowledge about climate change roughly every five years.Leaked versions of the new IPCC report warn that the world is close to missing a chance to limit the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a goal that world leaders had previously agreed was an important target. Beyond that point, "impacts will begin to be unacceptably severe,"
 the authors wrote. 

 

Young Sheepherder in the Andes

Photography by Jay Koppelman

 

Watch Bill Murray's Karaoke Cover of 'House of the Rising Sun'

Bill Murray is a man of many talents, and we all know that sweet vocal stylings are among them. The actor was down in St. Augustine, Florida recently for the annual Caddyshack Charity Golf Game when he took the stage at his Murray Bros. Caddyshack Restaurant to deliver a masterful karaoke set, captured in all its glory by TMZ.

 

Historical Place

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So What are Your Plans After Annexing Crimea?

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Are you not eating that?

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When it comes to pizza, either go big or go home!

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Perfect Barf

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

 

Mariza- Ó gente da minha terra

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Stylish Little Dude, Siggy.

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Back in the USSR

The world was stunned when Russia invaded Crimea, but should it have been? Author and journalist Oliver Bullough says President Vladimir Putin never kept secret his intention to restore Russian power - what's less clear, he says, is how long the country's rise can continue.

 

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The Hidden Dinosaur of Ta Prohm Temple

Stegosaurs roamed Europe and North America during the late Jurassic period, roughly 150 million years ago. Judging from a small carving in an Angkor temple, one or two may have spent some time in Cambodia, too — in the 12th century AD. A carving on the wall of the Ta Prohm temple, built in the late 1100s, bears more than a passing resemblance to the round-backed dinosaur. Since a 1997 guidebook first pointed out the strange carving, creationists have held up the Ta Prohm dinosaur as proof that humans and stegosauruses once co-existed in Cambodia. There is even a replica of the carving on display at the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas. While the carved animal does seem to have a row of plates along its spine, it's not the most compelling argument for revising the prehistoric timeline. The bas relief could be a depiction of a rhino or chameleon, with the "plates" forming a stylized version of foliage. But the curious carving adds another element of intrigue to the gorgeously ruined Tomb Raider temple.
 Visit Atlas Obscura for more on the dinosaur of Ta Prohm.

 

Why We Cheat

We may be in a golden age of marriage, when elites at least are more likely to report that their marriages are “very happy” than ever before. But the tight, companionable, totally merged nature of the modern marriage is one of the factors pushing people in happy marriages to have affairs, according to therapist Esther Perel.

 

Same Here

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Gotta call for a tow!

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Move over, Saturn—rings aren't just for giant planets anymore.

Saturn has rings, of course, and so do the other gas giants of our solar system—Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune—albeit wispier ones than Saturn's. But until now it seemed that only giant planets had the gravity to hold on to the billions of bits of orbiting ice and dust that make up a ring. In a paper published today in Nature, astronomers report the discovery of two icy rings around a small object named Chariklo that orbits between Saturn and Uranus.

 

A Long Look at Chernobyl

Gerd Ludwig ventured deeper inside Chernobyl's reactor than any other Western photographer.
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It's chemistry, baby

It is evening at Stories, a bar in east London, and here men and women are huddled around a table full of plastic bags stuffed with t-shirts. They are taking out the shirts, pressing them to their noses - and sniffing them. Welcome to an event organised by the dating firm Pheromone Parties.
 Could pheromone dating help people find their perfect match?

 

Forget Your Hydration Rules, Just Drink When You’re Thirsty

How much water should you drink? Eight glasses a day? Ten? The Mayo Clinic says that men should drink thirteen cups "of total beverages" every day, and women nine. But, really, you should just drink when you’re thirsty. It turns out your body is pretty good at judging when it's low on water. In fact, drinking when you’re not thirsty might even confuse your brain.

 

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Happy Birthday, Leonard Nimoy!

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