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The Gulf of Ob is a remote Siberian reach of the Russian empire, and its beaches are covered in gigantic snowballs up to a meter across. The BBC reports that they're the result of a "rare environmental process where small pieces of ice form, are rolled by wind and water, and end up as giant snowballs." (Photo: SERGEI BYCHENKOV)

QB Confidence Index: Rating all 32 NFL QB situations

A local Philadelphia iteration of Skippy And Goatface’s Morning Sports Holocaust on 97.5 The Fanatic has an infamous caller: “Dwayne From Swedesboro.” Dwayne’s schtick is that he’s black, horny for white women, and runs into all sorts of paternity-test problems. According to an exhaustive, truly impressive investigation from our friends at Crossing Broad, Dwayne is really just the alter ego of a white 97.5 producer, Pat Egan.

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We've previously written about "Primitive Technology," the amazing YouTube channel chronicling a guy (who never identifies himself) navigating the wilds of Far North Queensland, Australia with nothing more than what he fashions with his own hands. Those hands seem to have nearly magical powers as he confidently conjures what he needs to survive from the very elements around him (while capturing it all on a future phone). As part of my work, I spend a big chunk of my day watching DIY videos of every kind of "It" you can imagine. This YouTube channel is one where I anxiously await new content.

In this latest video, the mystery man that some have dubbed "Prim" builds himself a bow-drill blower and clay forge near the entrance to his tiled-roof mud hut. With his blower and forge in working order, he then collects orange iron bacteria (iron oxide) from the creek (that baby shit-brown substance at 3:14), mixes it with powdered charcoal (carbon for reducing oxide to metal), and wood ash (flux to lower meting point). He forms all of this into a cylindrical brick and fires it in a charcoal oven. The result is a melted iron ore slag with tiny, 1mm-sized specs of iron in it.

Congratulations, Prim! You just entered the Iron Age! On his blog, he explains that wasn't really his intent:

My intent was not so much to make iron but to show that the furnace can reach a fairly high temperature using this blower. A taller furnace called a bloomery was generally used in ancient times to produce usable quantities of iron and consumed more charcoal, ore and labour.

Even though he says that smelting iron wasn't his goal, now that he can, it would be fun to see what sorts of things he can do with this new technology. So, with iron smelting, we're up to I think GURPS Tech Level 3. With this guy's virtuosic maker chops, he might reach TL 9 (the AI/VR age) before the rest of us do!

You can see all of "Prim's" videos, with some background explanations and tech details, on his blog.

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Sources: Cavs, Lue agree on 5-year extension

Stephanie Condon, writing for ZDNet: Government requests for user data from Google hit an all-time high in the second half of 2015, the internet company revealed on Monday. Through July to December 2015, governments from around the globe made 40,677 requests, impacting as many as 81,311 user accounts. That's an 18 percent spike from the first half of 2015, when government requests for data impacted 68,908 users. By far and away, the most requests came from the United States, which made 12,523 data requests for this reporting period. The requests impacted 27,157 users or accounts. Google reports the number of user data requests it has received every six-month period going as far back as the second half of 2009. It started detailing the number of users and/or accounts impacted in the first half of 2011. "Usage of our services have increased every year, and so have the user data request numbers," the company noted. Since the second half of 2010, Google has reported the percentage of user data requests it at least partially complies with. For the second half of 2015, the company produced at least some data for 64 percent of requests. That figure has been about the same since 2013, but it's been trending slightly downward. Google complied with 79 percent of requests from the United States.

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Are they back? Hype for Huskies and Vols eerily similar

Dennis heads into Stage 13 time trial warily

Cuban: 'Villain' Warriors good for NBA business

Oreovicz: Kentucky race a big unknown

Markazi: Jones' biggest opponent is himself

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MLB Week 11 Power Rankings: Giants gaining ground on Cubs?

The United States Men’s National Team will open the Copa America Centenario—a wonderfully entertaining Frankentournament that the U.S. is hosting only through sheer force of corruption—with a match against Colombia tonight in Santa Clara, Calif. Colombia is the shit. They could have taken down Brazil at the last World Cup, and they have a roster full of technically-gifted players strewn across the Champions League and Europe. Los Cafeteros are ranked No. 4 in the world for good reason, and they brought an A-team to the United States.

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Hirsute pursuit: Best playoff beards

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Julian Edelman, Danny Amendola team up as humorous Boston 'Cops'

Should NFL teams worry about Robert Nkemdiche?

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