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The great cold snap of 2019 has given us a ton of terms we didn't know we needed: Frost quakes, snow squalls, steam fog and now, ghost apples.

"With 25,000 euros and 1000 hours of work, Maurizio Cesprini and his partner Paola Gardin rebuilt a ruined home in the medieval village of Ghesc, Italy. They hope other young families will consider their example with a plentiful supply of medieval ghost towns. They also feel drawn to save the rich architectural heritage of artisanal stonework dotting villages throughout the Alps, and beyond."

This is a long video, but a relaxing and uplifting one to watch.  Even if you skip through with the slider, it will still be impressive.

A website known for promoting pseudoscience is about to get an even larger platform on Netflix.

The judge found that a 13- and 14-year-old girl were partly to blame for a sexual encounter with a 67-year-old man and reduced his prison sentence.

Nearly 35,000 pounds of drugs were seized on 21 separate boats over the past three months.

From the "MurderedByWords" subreddit, where there is a discussion thread.

The Roseville City School District has settled a lawsuit five years after it was brought on by three families.

More than 250 pounds of the synthetic opioid, which is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine, was found inside a truck carrying Mexican produce.

A Rube Goldberg apparatus is even better than a marble run.

See also:

A marble run incorporating a dozen antigravity mechanisms

A marble run accelerated by rubber bands

Reposted from last year to add this new video.  It's very seldom that such videos get me to laugh out loud, but I did - twice - while watching this.


Via Neatorama.

"I mean, what (happened) to America? We're getting soft, Terry. We're getting soft," Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said after dozens of school districts canceled classes due to dangerously cold temperatures.

LOTS more examples viewable with a simple Google Image search.

This photo via (original credit not given).

"Men don't understand what's so special about this picture, but women know immediately."

The explanation is at Neatorama.

Several states are working on legislation to allow Bible classes in public schools.

Stone was charged with seven counts.

How do you draw the letter X?

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"To know a person could do that to an animal is obviously disheartening to the entire human race."

One of the endangered animals photographed by Tim Flach in this remarkable gallery.

A classic Valentine’s Day candy will be missing from the shelves this year, but you can buy some online if you're willing to pay up.

“No, we are not a same sex couple, but we do share a daughter,” the soon-to-be-stepfather said, calling himself a “bonus dad.”

From 60 belly buttons, the team found 2,368 bacterial species...

Some belly buttons harbored as few as 29 species and some as many as 107, although most had around 67. Ninety-two percent of the bacteria types showed up on fewer than 10 percent of subjects—in fact, most of the time, they appeared in only a single subject.

One science writer, for instance, apparently harbored a bacterium that had previously been found only in soil from Japan—where he has never been.

Another, more fragrant individual, who hadn't washed in several years, hosted two species of so-called extremophile bacteria that typically thrive in ice caps and thermal vents...

Despite the diversity, themes emerged. Even though not a single strain showed up in each subject, eight species were present on more than 70 percent of the subjects. And whenever these species appeared, they did so in huge numbers.

"That makes the belly button a lot like rain forests," Dunn said. In any given forest, he explained, the spectrum of flora might vary, but an ecologist can count on a certain few dominant tree types.

More at National Geographic and Wikipedia. [The most prevalent organisms were Staphylococci, Corynebacteria, Actinobacteria, Clostridia, and Bacilli - pretty much like the skin in general].

See also omphaloskepsis, navel fetishism, and alvinolagnia.

"I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet."

Video of the dog being dragged went viral and sparked a backlash on social media.

A great white shark, believed to be one of the largest on the planet, has been spotted by divers as it fed on a whale carcass off the coast of Hawaii.

You'll be in stitches when you see all the photos.

She imperiled his State of the Union address. He denied her a plane to visit troops abroad.

Netflix also has a message to anyone attempting to do anything dangerous while blindfolded.

Police say a mass overdose at a house in Chico that killed one man and left four people in critical condition appears to have been largely caused by the dangerous opiate fentanyl, the Enterprise Record reports.

“Do we have to pick up the phone and then do it?” one of the 17-year-olds asked.

Almost a year ago, Swedish furniture giant IKEA signalled its intention to make people's homes smarter with the launch of its own intelligent lighting range. TRÅDFRI -- as we now know it -- has grown to include a variety of LED bulbs, motion se...