tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29787040472705505182024-03-11T12:07:30.267-04:00Quigley's CabinetBeing a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990.
"Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."Quigley's Cabinethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06998042405160589696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2346125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978704047270550518.post-8590866087104177542018-01-27T17:27:00.000-05:002018-01-27T17:53:56.208-05:00Quigley's Final Cabinet<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Chris Quigley, Rest In Peace, 1963-2018</span></i></b><br />
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It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to Chris who "joined the great majority" on January 22 after a 30-year battle with MS from complications of pneumonia.</div>
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Chris was a unique person, delighting in the details of the morbid and curious, with blog posts that often made us laugh and often made us want to turn away before looking back and reading on. Her posts, viewed over 3 million times, left us fascinated with her endless love of the unique, weird and often misunderstood. In this way, she left us to feel that, in turn, perhaps all of us were worthy of such attention and love. We will miss her.</div>
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Chris and her mom, Donna</div>
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Chris surrounded by the oddities and curiosities that gave her such pleasure in her museum (apartment) </div>
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Chris and her dad, Jim, and nephew, visiting her museum (apartment)</div>
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<b><i>A Natural "Green" Burial, Back to the Land</i></b></div>
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Chris selected a natural (or "green") burial that uses biodegradable containers and avoids embalming fluids and vaults. She was wrapped in a family quilt, and buried with treats that would have put a smile on her face, at the peaceful Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery in Gainesville, Florida. Her immediate family was there to say their goodbyes. <br />
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Chris was the first person to be buried in this way by her funeral home, and Chris would have liked that she was a teaching tool for them to learn about this process.</div>
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Wrapped simply in a family quilt, and surrounded with treats such as notes from loved ones, both her pizza and Halloween socks and plenty of chocolate!</div>
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More information on green burials can be found at <a href="https://greenburialcouncil.org/home/what-is-green-burial/" target="_blank">https://greenburialcouncil.org/home/what-is-green-burial/</a> and Chris' final resting home at <a href="http://conservationburialinc.org/" target="_blank">conservationburialinc.org</a></div>
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For thoughts and remembrances, please visit Chris' Facebook page, where you can leave comments and photos <a href="https://www.facebook.com/christine.quigley" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/christine.quigley</a></div>
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Quigley's Cabinethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06998042405160589696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978704047270550518.post-36960132217868841312015-04-13T09:38:00.001-04:002015-04-13T09:38:42.930-04:00Quigley's Cabinet<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well, folks, it has come to this. The strength in my arms continues to </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">decline and it has reached the point where posting to my blog is hit </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">or miss. My strength begins to wane about</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;"> </span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">11 AM</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">, but trying to blog, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">to get outside before it gets too hot, to fit my occupational therapy </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">in, to accommodate nurses giving me meds and friends wanting to visit </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">has stretched me too thin in the mornings</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">. In addition, my roommate Ola </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">died at age 102 on March 17th. I miss her smile and her peacefulness, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">and now have the added stress of rehab patients cycling in and out of the room </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">and </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">the associated noise and interruptions. After 6 1/2 years blogging </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">daily, I am still compelled to share links to articles about weird </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">news, animals, fossils, and the rest of it. Friend me on Facebook or </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">follow me on Twitter. I will still try to wow you, faithful reasders!</span></p><div style="text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;" id="blogsy_footer"><a href="http://blogsyapp.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://blogsyapp.com/images/blogsy_footer_icon.png" alt="Posted with Blogsy" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;" width="20" height="20" />Posted with Blogsy</a></div>Quigley's Cabinethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06998042405160589696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978704047270550518.post-29186741872103758542015-04-08T09:39:00.001-04:002015-04-08T09:41:22.441-04:00Versus MRSA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scientists at the University of Nottingham have found that a 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon treatment for eye infections works as an antibiotic against one of today’s most notorious bacteria, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). After being introduced to cultures and infected mice, the recipe – which calls for 2 species of garlic and onions, wine, and bile from a cow's stomach brewed in a brass cauldron and let sit for 9 days – killed all but one in 1,000 bacteria. Says Viking scholar Christina Lee, "</span><a href="http://www.popsci.com/ancient-medical-remedy-works-against-modern-resistant-bacteria?dom=tw&src=SOC" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;" target="_blank" title=""><em>We were genuinely astonished at the results of our experiments in the lab</em></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">."</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Before Eli Thompson was born in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., his father joked that he hoped he wouldn't pass on his nose to his new son. Little did he expect that the child would be born with no nose whatsoever. Eli has a rare condition known as complete congenital arhinia and underwent a tracheotomy at 5 days of age. Surgeons will not be able to construct his nasal passageways until he is past puberty, but in his mother Brandi McGlathery'</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">s words, "We think he's fine the way he is."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have just conclusively proven that the 4.2 ounce (12 g) <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11508675/Tiny-songbird-can-fly-the-Atlantic-scientists-confirm.html" target="_blank" title="">white-throated, black-capped blackpoll warbler flies non-stop</a> the 1,700 miles (1056 km) from New England to South America during its autumn migration. Not only that, it can do so with a .02 ounce (.57 g) geolocator on its back. </span></span><br />
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"<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150325-ecuador-new-species-punk-rocker-frog-shape-shifting/?sf8265356=1" style="font-family: 'Chronicle SSm 3r', Georgia, serif; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.003em; line-height: 1.6;" target="_blank" title="">I was so mad at myself! I thought I had brought back the wrong frog</a><span style="font-family: 'Chronicle SSm 3r', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: 0.003em; line-height: 1.6;">," says biologist Katherine Krynak, who was surveying amphibian species in the </span><a href="http://reservalasgralarias.com/" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm 3r', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: 0.003em; line-height: 1.6; text-decoration: none;">Reserva Las Gralarias</a><span style="font-family: 'Chronicle SSm 3r', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: 0.003em; line-height: 1.6;"> in Ecuador. The marble-sized creature was spiky when she spotted it, but smooth when she examined it back at the labr. In fact, she had discovered the first vertebrate species known to change its skin texture.t</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;"> </span></div>
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NASA <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">astronaut Scott Kelly has just taken off for a <a href="http://www.popsci.com/record-breaking-nasa-mission-launches-today" target="_blank" title="">yearlong stay on the International Space Station</a>. He will perform sophisticated testing on himself and the results will be relayed so that researchers can understand the effects of long-term stints in space. Of the ocular analysis,</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"> UC-San Diego postdoctoral fellow Brandon Macias, a co-investigator on the project, says, "</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;"><em>Our goal is to understand and measure the fluid shift that occurs in space. </em></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"><em>We hope to create a longitudinal map of changes: before, during, and after spaceflight</em>.” And they have the perfect control for comparison of the results: Scott's identical twin brother, retired astronaut Mark Kelly.</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;"> </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">Diver Josh Stewart was trying to photograph the belly of a 15' (4.6 m) manta ray off the coast of Peru </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">as part of a long-term identification project for </span><a href="http://www.mantatrust.org/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: content-box !important; line-height: 1.3em; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Manta Trust</a> when he found himself being tucked up and somersaulted. He describes, "<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"><em>I was just swimming down as I usually do to capture a manta ID shot and before I knew it, I was engulfed in the wings of this massive manta as I tumbled through the water. I suffered no injuries but it was certainly a big surprise</em>.” (<strong>VIDEO</strong> <a href="http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/diver-tumbled-by-giant-manta-ray-off-peru/" target="_blank" title=""><strong>HERE</strong></a>)</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;"> </span><br />
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A one in a million birth has occurred in Dekalb, Texas, U.S. The actual odds of a cow giving birth to four live calves is one in 11.2 million, but that is exactly what has happened to a run-of-the-mill red cow, as she is described by owners <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Jimmy and </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">Dora Rumsey-Barling. In his 18-year career, local veterinarian Michael Baird has delivered twin, multiple, and even conjoined calves but has never seen anything like it. He remarks, "</span><a href="http://www.azfamily.com/story/28556261/rare-quadruplet-calves-born-in-dekalb?autostart=true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;" target="_blank" title=""><em>This is truly an amazing event if you are into this sort of thing</em></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">.”</span><br />
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Two tiny examples of colorful Indonesian "vampire crabs" have been identified as new species, even though they have been known in the aquarium trade for many years. With bright purple or stunning orange claws and intense yellow eyes, the land crabs make popular pets, which is why competing dealers have kept the location where they find them so secret. The scientists found their habitat in Java, and as study co-author Christoph Schubart says of the dealers, "<a href="http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-new-vampire-crabs-traced-back-java-indonesia" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;" target="_blank" title=""><em>They start collecting in areas where scientists may not have made any expeditions so far, and suddenly the market is formed with some animals that no one has ever given a name</em></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">.” </span><br />
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National Geographic contributing photographer Luciano Candisani set out to capture on film the legendary albino tapir said to roam the rainforest of southeastern Brazil. While unsuccessfully stalking the creature under cover of darkness, he met with success after setting up a camera trap, and describes, "<em><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150321-tapirs-albinos-brazil-animals-science-rare/?sf8161446=1" target="_blank" title="">My heart skipped a beat when, while reviewing the photos from one night, the white tapir suddenly appeared in one of the frames."</a></em><br />
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For reasons unknown, the rainbow lorikeets patronizing a backyard bird feeder north of Brisbane, Australia, have become carnivores. Instead of partaking in the seed meant for vegetarian birds including <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">galahs, king parrots, and the lorikeets, they have been gorging themselves on the minced meat set out for</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"> magpies, currawongs, and kookaburras. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Licensed wildlife carer Fran Sanders exclaims, "</span><a href="http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-23/rainbow-lorikeets-eating-meat-baffles-bird-experts/6337984" style="line-height: 1.3em;" target="_blank" title=""><em>I'm absolutely amazed and horrified</em></a><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">."</span><br />
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When I went to France in 1999 with my friend Cris, we went out of our way to see the famed <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">Mont Saint-Michel</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">, driving up the causeway from the mainland</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;"> to the entrance even though I couldn't climb the many steps up and around it, which made its interior inaccessible. Recent visitors were barred altogether when a <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rare-supertide-turns-ancient-abbey-isolated-island-n327786" target="_blank" title="">supertide turned the ancient monastery into an island</a>. Called "the tide of the century," it actually should've been dubbed "the tide of the generation," since it occurs regularly every 18 years.</span><br />
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A few years ago, Amsterdam couple <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">Rob Hagenouw and Nicolle Schatborn <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/kitchen-unwanted-animal-food-truck-unlike-any-other.html" target="_blank" title="">started a food truck</a> they call</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/KvhOD" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keuken van het Ongewenst Dier</a>" (</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">“The Kitchen of the Unwanted Animal”) to sell the meat that nobody wants in an effort to reduce unnecessary food waste. They offer up goose croquettes, pigeon rolls, and muskrat, with plans to extend the menu to include fallow deer, black crow, and parakeet. But their most popular item is the horse meat burger. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">Hagenouw describes. "'</span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/09/391830943/pigeon-parakeet-and-pony-amsterdam-food-truck-serves-maligned-meat" target="_blank" title="">Ah, they have My Little Pony burgers,' little girls will say. Most of the time the girls eat the burgers; it's the mothers who don't like it</a>."</i><br />
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Some 230 million years ago, a crocodilian standing on its back legs at over 9' (3 m) tall vied for food with dinosaurs in what is now North Carolina, U.S. Other smaller animals in the crocodile family – which have survived to this day – were further down on the food chain, the equivalent of foxes. Although its bones were excavated a decade ago, this beast has been identified as a new species and its name translates as "Carolina butcher." <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">Paleontologist Lindsay Zanno of North Carolina State University says, "</span><a href="http://triblive.com/mobile/8011120-96/carolina-croc-dinosaurs" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;" target="_blank" title=""><em>It was clearly a top predator. That's a niche we didn't know animals like this were filling</em></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">.”</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">A Yale University team has developed a new method to identify malaria in the bone marrow of ancient human remains. It is the first time researchers have been able to establish a diagnostic, human skeletal profile for the disease, which still infect millions of people a year. Identifying</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;"> hemozoin,</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">the polymer</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;"> produced by the parasite that causes malaria,</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"> may allow scientists to track the spread of malaria back to its first appearance in human populations. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">Jamie Inwood, team leader and graduate student in archaeology, explains, </span><a href="http://news.yale.edu/2015/03/17/creating-malaria-test-ancient-human-remains" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;" target="_blank" title=""><em>“The data set we build with this will be revolutionary for establishing the epidemiological curve for malaria in ancient societies. By understanding how this parasite reacted to societal shifts in the past, we can aid in predicting its future behavior. We can understand the way it has evolved</em></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">.”</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">"<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150311-giant-stingray-largest-freshwater-fish-thailand-whiptail-animals/?sf8012820=1" target="_blank" title=""><em>For the most part they are a gentle giant</em></a>," says television host Jeff Corwin (<strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;">UPPER RIGHT</span></strong>) of the giant stingray caught in </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">Thailand’s Mae Klong River. With the help of a team including veterinarian </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nantarika Chansue (<strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;">LEFT</span></strong>) of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, he measured the record-breaking ray at<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> 7.9' (2.4 m) across and 14' (4.3 m) long, with a weight estimated at up to 800 lbs (363 kg). In addition to its size, what does this specimen have in common with the <a href="http://quigleyscabinet.blogspot.com/2009/02/megafishes.html?m=0" target="_blank" title="">13-footer caught by aquatic ecologist Zeb Hogan in Cambodia</a>? They were both released back into the wild.</span></span></span></span></div>
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A 7-member team attempted to summit Mexico's highest mountain, <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pico de Orizaba, In 1959, but they were overtaken by an avalanche. Four of the climbers were killed, but only one body was recovered at the time. The bodies of 2 of the missing men have just been found during a recent expedition. Luis Espinoza, who has now been mourning the loss of his fellow climbers for 56 years, commented, "</span><a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/news-from-the-field/Mummified-Bodies-Discovered-on-Pico-de-Orizaba.html?utm_source=nftf&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=03102015&" style="line-height: 1.3em;" target="_blank" title=""><em>I'll be at peace if they are</em></a><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">."</span><br />
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Dating back 7,000 years – earlier than the Egyptians, the oldest mummies in the world are those of <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/1995/03/chinchorro-mummies/arriaza-text" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;">Chinchorro</a>, who lived along the coasts of northern Chile and southern Peru. Hundreds of them have been unearthed, with more being excavated regularly. Usually, the challenge is to conserve them after they are removed from their dry conditions under the desert sand. But these days, almost certainly due to climate change, they are deteriorating where they lay. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">Archaeologist Marcela Sepulveda of the Universidad de Tarapacá, observes, "</span><i style="line-height: 1.3em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://tablet.washingtonpost.com/top/why-a-changing-climate-could-destroy-the-worlds-oldest-mummies/2015/03/09/b57d18203af9f40bd318b7dc9a2ee128_story.html?tid=kindle-app" target="_blank" title="">When you excavate mummies you can see that degradation is already there</a>."</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;"> </span></i><br />
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After 100 years, the hut and all of its contents left behind by the ill-fated Robert F. Scott expedition still stands like a time capsule in Antarctica. T<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">he New Zealand-based <a href="http://www.nzaht.org/" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Antarctic Heritage Trust</a> has just finished a 10-year restoration project necessitated by water seepage, age, and just being in the harshest environment on earth. Take a peek at the results (<strong>VIDEO <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150212-antarctica-huts-scott-shackleton-history-culture-science/" target="_blank" title="">HERE</a>, PHOTOS <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13079351" target="_blank" title="">HERE</a></strong>).</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;"> </span><br />
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Professor of photographic sciences <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">Ted Kinsman of the </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">Rochester Institute of Technology in New York picked up a dead snapping turtle from the side of the road, x-rayed it, added false color to the 30 eggs he found inside, and</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"> won the Expert's Choice award for Photography at the 2015 Vizzies (SEE THE OTHER WINNING PHOTOGRAPHS</span><a class="linkTargets-processed" href="http://www.popsci.com/2015-vizzies" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> HERE</a>.)<br />
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Have a bird's-eye view of Baltimore from 33 stories up on a ledge of the Transamerica Building, where the latest generation of peregrine falcons has taken up residence. The <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;">Chesapeake Conservancy has provided a </span><a class="linkTargets-processed external" href="http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/peregrine-falcon-webcam" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">live feed</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">.</span><br />
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Australian man 42-year-old Mick Brown hit the jackpot with his metal detector <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">near Wedderburn, Victoria. Only 6" (15 cm) beneath the surface of the earth, he found a 6 lb (2.7 kg) gold nugget, worth about $107,000 U.S. ($141,000 Australian). Brown describes first mistaking the discovery for a big molten blob of copper, then t</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">he realization dawned</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">"</span><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/67164448/man-unearths-141000-gold-nugget" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;" target="_blank" title=""><em>I thought bugger me, it is, it's bloody gold</em></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">."</span><br />
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The photo above shows a "murmurration" of <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">starlings performing their synchronized</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"> aerial ballet in the sky above Utrecht, Netherlands. A group of statistical physicists figured out the how, but </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">GrrlScientist explains the why: "</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.3em;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2015/mar/07/murmuration-over-utrect" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank" title="">Birds form these large flocks to protect themselves from predators, to share information regarding food sources, and to find mates for the upcoming breeding season</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;"><i>." </i>Follow the link for a mesmerizing video<i>.</i></span></span><br />
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I have seen a lot of Grecian urns, but never one pictured in situ. This gold-lipped one – decorated with scenes of Dionysus – was excavated from the <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/ancient-celtic-princes-grave-chariot-unearthed-france-n318936" target="_blank" title="">tomb of a Celtic prince</a> in what is now Marseille, France. The lavish 2,500-year-old burial mound also contained a chariot and a beautifully decorated copper cauldron. S<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">ome of the items may have been bestowed as diplomatic gifts by Mediterranean merchants hoping to open new trade channels, explains </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.3em;">Dominique Garcia, president of France's National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (<strong>IMAGES</strong> <a href="http://m.livescience.com/50067-photos-ancient-tomb-of-celtic-prince.html" target="_blank" title=""><strong>HERE</strong></a>).</span><br />
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