18-Year-old Uses Her Tracking Skills to Guide Hikers on Wildfire Evacuation Route
nnOut from the ash and flames of the wildfires that scorched Canada’s Jasper National Park comes the story of a heroic 18-year-old who saved over a dozen people.nnWorking as a volunteer firefighter and kitchen aide at a lodge, Colleen Knull received an evacuation order on a Monday in late July. Stepping outside she saw smoke […]
Hobbyist Hedgetrimmer Transforms His Street into Green Sculpture Gallery in Memory of Beloved Wife
nn”We’re a tourist attraction on Google Maps now,” local Londener Polly Barker told CBS News, gesturing to her garden hedge—trimmed immaculately so as to depict Henry Moore’s famous sculpture Reclining Nude. nnCBS was in Barker’s neighborhood to talk to the sculptor himself: a man named Bushe.nnTim Bushe has been trimming hedges for 15 years. It’s his […]
Seven-Foot Mammoth Tusk Unearthed in Mississippi Creek Belonged to Largest Species in North America
nnA fossil hunter in Mississippi recently unearthed an intact mammoth ivory 7 feet long.nnBelieving it was the tusk of a mastodon, a far more common proboscidean in the area, Eddie Templeton was nevertheless ecstatic to find one that wasn’t fragmented.nnBut it was only after scientists arrived from the Mississippi Museum of Natural History and were […]
The World’s Largest 3D Printer Is Building Cozy Homes from Wood
nnAt the University of Maine, one of the world’s largest 3D printers is using sawdust from the state’s lumber industry to 3D-print cozy 600-square-foot wooden cabins.nnIt’s part of a move towards making 3D printing faster and more sustainable in a state where the housing shortage that has metastasized in most states around the country is […]
An image of the fire seen from the Valley of the Five Lakes, Jasper National Park. Parks.gov.ca
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Good News in History, August 16
49 years ago today, Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically handed over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave Hill walk-off, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia. Though initially interpreted merely as a strike against working and living conditions, the primary demands of the 200 or so […]