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A New Zealand PSA of Unusual Rhetorical Power

Wow. This works on so many levels. It humanizes the strangers to one another; it points up our liabilities to impatience and misjudgments of risk and distance; and it vividly dramatizes the consequences of casual bad habits, distraction, and inattention. A … Continue reading

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Can You Survive a Free-Fall from 30,000 Feet?

According to Popular Mechanics, some people actually have, and so, if you ever find yourself in a similar situation, perhaps you can too. There are at least thirteen “confirmed or plausible” cases of free-fall survival from great heights, one of them being … Continue reading

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Talk about Alien Contact! UFO Crashes into UFO Museum!

I don’t know where this little museum and gift shop is in the world, but I thought the image was amusing.  

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