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6 Historic Events That Were Nothing Like You Picture Them - The Spit Take

Tiger’s reaction to getting tooth pulled via /r/aww http://ift.tt/2nsAlFe

Happy birthday to Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary! This Southern California sanctuary protects an area with remarkable biodiversity: here, you’ll find deep sea corals, lush kelp forests, and more.

Huge Magma Bubble May Be Rising Under New England

If the findings hold up, the northeastern U.S. may be more geologically active than anyone realized.

The findings, recently published in the journal Geology, suggest that New England may not be so immune to abrupt geological change.

Drilling Through Ice in the Hunt of Celestial Life

Hawaii Becomes the First State to Pass a Bill in Support of Universal Basic Income

Hawaii's government is going to evaluate UBI.

As the threat of automation grows, governments will have to deal with growing unemployment. UBI is growing in interest, and while there’s still research to be done, I’m glad that people are at least having the conversation.

Also, since automation is coming for middle and upper class jobs too, I expect to see progress to be made a bit more quickly. Hopefully.

BOMBTURBATION

Yes, it’s your new word for the day and a real phenomenon studied by today’s geoscientists – bombturbation.

Essentially, it reflects the change in a geomorphologic surface due to bombing. Whether by cannon balls or A-bombs, whenever the surface of the Earth is blown up, there is a tendency to create craters. Bombturbation was initially applied to the disturbance of soil due to warfare (Hupy and others 2006): a bomb or some sort of artillery explosion excavates a crater, ejecting soils out into a surrounding rim of mixed material. Bombing can have the effect of creating entirely new geomorphological environments as seen in photos of Omaha Beach (#37 at http://tinyurl.com/nyhdu8), US Civil War Battlefields (http://tinyurl.com/kamaebd), or as in the present photo, the Nevada nuclear test site.

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