Mother And Father Dead After Attempt To Save Son And Dog From Drowning

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SAN FRANCISCO — Howard Kuljian and his family were out for a walk on a damp, overcast morning at Big Lagoon beach, playing fetch with their dog Fran as 10-foot surf churned the water just feet away like a washing machine.

Signs near the beach warned of “sneaker waves,” the kind that suddenly roar ashore.

Kuljian tossed a stick that took the dog down to the water’s edge, and in an instant, authorities said, a wave swallowed it, setting off a nightmarish scramble.

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3D Illusions By Brusspup Will Blow Your Mind (VIDEO)

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With his truly spectacular optical illusions, Brusspup is more of a magician than an artist — it’s all about the reveal.

In his latest video, the Youtube user with the tagline “Illusions and Science” forgoes his usual animated illusions for 3D drawings of household items.

From a certain angle, the Rubik’s Cube, blue roll of tape and a sneaker appear to be real. But when Brusspup turns the paper, the items that appear to be three-dimensional turn out to be meticulously crafted anamorphic art.

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I Lost Weight: Joseph D. Airdo Revamped His Eating Habits And Lost 285 Pounds

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Name: Joseph D. Airdo
Height: 5’8″
Age: 60
Before Weight: 460 pounds

How I Gained It: I started to gain weight in the early 80s by eating anything and everything.

I was a 60 in the waist, a 7-XL in the shirt and very lazy. I was driving a Cadillac DeVille and had to have the driver’s seat moved back at an automotive shop. When I went by other people’s houses, I was always breaking chairs and furniture. It was very embarrassing. I was falling asleep at red lights.

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Real Benjamin Buttons Brothers: Matthew and Michael Clark Are Aging Backwards

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By the looks of their home, Tony and Christine Clark are raising two rambunctious 7-year-old boys. Model train tracks and Monopoly pieces are scattered on tables and cartoons flicker on the TV set.

But the Clarks’ two sons are grown men who share only the same interests and emotional fluctuations of little boys. Like the character portrayed by Brad Pitt in the 2008 film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons,” Matthew, 39, and Michael, 42, are aging backwards.

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Mykayla Comstock, Oregon Girl With Leukemia, Is 7-Year-Old Medical Marijuana Patient (VIDEO)

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Mykayla Comstock, a 7-year-old girl with leukemia, is one of Oregon’s youngest medical marijuana users.

Mykayla, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia last spring, is one of 2,201 cancer patients– 52 of them children — authorized to use cannabis by the state, the Oregonian reports.

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Fetuses Yawn In ’4D’ Scans Of Womb, Spotlighting Brain Development (VIDEO)

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LONDON (Reuters) – Growing into a fully formed human being is a long process, and scientists have found that unborn babies not only hiccup, swallow and stretch in the womb, they yawn too.

Researchers who studied 4D scans of 15 healthy fetuses also said they think yawning is a developmental process which could potentially give doctors a new way to check on a baby’s health.

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Maya Collapse, Climate Change Linked In New Study That Points To Rainfall, Droughts

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Much has been made of the so-called 2012 Mayan apocalypse. But for the real Maya people, the end of the world came slowly and timed with historic droughts.

A new, ultra-detailed climate record from a cave in Belize reveals Classic Maya civilization collapsed over centuries as rain dried up, disrupting agriculture and causing instability that led to wars and the crumbling of large cities. A final major drought after the political collapse of the Maya may be what kept the civilization from bouncing back.

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Otzi The Iceman’s Genes Reveal Central European Birth, But Sardinian Relatives

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SAN FRANCISCO — Ötzi the Iceman, an astonishingly well-preserved Neolithic mummy found in the Italian Alps in 1991, was a native of Italian Alps, not a first-generation émigré from Sardinia, new research shows. And genetically, he looked a lot like other Stone Age farmers throughout Europe.

The new findings, reported Thursday (Nov. 8) here at the American Society of Human Genetics conference, support the theory that farmers, and not just the technology of farming, spread during prehistoric times from the Middle East all the way to Finland.

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Earth’s Core and Carbon: Planetary Center Holds Largest Store Of Common Element, Computer Simulation Suggests

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A tiny fraction of carbon helps account for the oddly light density of Earth’s iron core, a new computer simulation finds.

Though the core is only 0.1 percent to 0.8 percent carbon, the iron ball is the largest reservoir of carbon on the planet, the study authors said.

An impenetrable 1,790 miles (2,890 kilometers) below the planet’s surface, the core is a compelling mystery. The density of pure iron is heavier than the core’s observed density, which is calculated from seismic and laboratory studies.

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