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Seven years ago, I stood atop a sagebrush bluff in eastern Oregon, waiting for the coming total eclipse of the sun. Ten minutes before totality, in a half-light like some strange Instagram filter, a Brewer’s Sparrow started singing. The crowd began to exclaim, “It’s coming!” and “Oh my God!” And, then, suddenly, we looked up, and there it was– floating in calm, peaceful stillness, a perfect black disc surrounded by a silky silver corona.
People aren't as scared of the "unlucky day" in Cincinnati as they used to be.
Two Northwest explorers helped us understand the Earth’s poles A pair of recent books shed light on the lives of James Cook and Charles Wilkes By Knute Berger, Crosscut Share: FILE - In this July 10, 2020, file image taken from video provided by Russian Emergency Ministry, a multipurpose amphibious aircraft releases water to extinguish a fire in the Trans-Baikal National Park in Buryatia, southern Siberia, Russia. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationCfUs annual Arctic Report Card, released on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, shows how warming temperatures in the Arc...