Yellowstone’s Giantess Geyser erupts for first time in 6 years, roars ‘back to life’

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A massive geyser, which was known for how often it erupted each year, went mysteriously silent for six years. However, on Tuesday the Giantess Geyser in Yellowstone National Park finally erupted again after being dormant for six years, shocking and amazing the lucky park-goers. Yellowstone’s Giantess Geyser Erupts After Six Years According to Yellowstone’s website,…

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NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field

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The South Atlantic Anomaly is one of those pieces of space that are shrouded in mystery, and it has both intrigued and concerned scientists for years. When it comes to outer space, it seems that the more we learn the less we know. Despite how far we’ve come, and the incredible advancements the scientific community…

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‘Flying car’ gets off ground, with a person aboard

Pierre Van ZylNews + Discoveries

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Do you remember the 1960s cartoon series the Jetsons? The show followed George Jetson, his wife Jane, and their two kids Judy and Elroy through their futuristic lives where everyone had robot housemaids and drove around in flying cars. While this fictional depiction of a futuristic world still hasn’t quite come to fruition, one aspect…

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This Dad Built A Jeep Bed For His Daughter and Now I Want One

Pierre Van Zylparenting

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Having a cool room to show off to all of your friends was something that many of us always wanted growing up. This lucky little girl got her wish when her dad built her very own custom-built jeep bed.  A Custom-Built Jeep Bed of Your Dreams Thomas Passmore’s little girl clearly loves two things: Pink…

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Tennessee’s Treetop Skywalk is the Longest Tree-Based Bridge in North America!

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Are you in need of a relaxing walk in the woods, or are looking to gain a new perspective on things? Well, then this treetop skywalk in Tennessee is just what you’ve been searching for to help you unwind and reconnect with nature and yourself. Anakeesta’s Treetop Skywalk Anakeesta, a Cherokee word meaning “place of…

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7 Signs of a Toxic Family

Pierre Van ZylMove, parenting, Personal Growth + Development

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During the past several months of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing, families across the country and around the world have been separated, unable to see each other, hug each other, and support each other. In many ways, this extremely diffic…

Couple with no savings, no mortgage plan to build their dream home

Pierre Van ZylHome + Garden

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Dreaming of owning a home but unsure how you will ever be able to afford it? This couple in Australia knows the feeling – so they put their heads to figure out how to use the system to make their dreams come true. This is how, without any savings, they can afford to build their…

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My Husband’s Reaction to Finding Out Our Baby Girl Has No Arms or Hands Put the Doctors to Shame

Pierre Van Zylparenting

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Even in today’s modern world with state-of-the-art hospitals and advanced medicine, pregnancy and childbirth come with a certain amount of risk. For this reason, every time a baby is born healthy with no complications it is truly a miracle. Sometimes, however, things don’t go perfectly, and babies are born with health issues that the doctors…

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Flowers and Plants You Can Grow in October

Pierre Van ZylHome + Garden

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As summer winds to an end and autumn is fast approaching, most of us are thinking about harvesting rather than planting. Luckily, there are still plenty of plants you can grow in October to keep on flexing your green thumb even as the weather gets cooler. Plants You Can Grow in October Not all plants…

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Take a tour inside the tiny house that sold for $1.8 million

Pierre Van ZylHome + Garden

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The housing market was yet another sector of the economy that got hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020 when the economy took a nosedive and unemployment skyrocketed, housing sales dropped by an average of seventy percent [1]. It appears, however, that as businesses, workplaces, restaurants, and stores have opened up, the housing…

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The Farmer’s Almanac Predicts Warmer Temps And Fewer Snowstorms This Winter

Pierre Van ZylPlanet

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Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere are still experiencing warm, sunny, summer days. However, this is the time of year when we all start about to think about what’s looming just around the corner: Winter. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2020, however, is telling us that this year in the U.S. we maybe don’t have…

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Company will pay you $1,000 to go camping for 2 days without internet

Pierre Van ZylHome + Garden

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If there’s one thing that the majority of us have been spending more time on since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it’s screens. Computers, smartphones, tablets – it feels like we’re always staring at least at one of them, if not multiple. This company wants to help you disconnect from the virtual world and reconnect with…

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16 Fish You Should Consider Never Eating

Pierre Van Zyleat, Evidence Based, Health Awareness

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Fish can be an excellent part of a healthy diet, providing important nutrients like omega-3 fatty acids which can lower your risk for diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s and dementia, age-related macular degeneration, and rheumatoid arthritis, among others [1]. However, there are some fish you shouldn’t eat. Unfortunately, due to human industrial activity like…

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Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it

Pierre Van ZylFact Checked, News + Discoveries

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Imagine a battery that provides green energy, saves taxpayers thousands of dollars, and never runs out of power. Sounds pretty great, right? With the newly created nano-diamond batteries, this could be a sooner possibility than you may think. Nano-Diamond Batteries California-based company NDB has created nano-diamond batteries that they say will change the energy industry…

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Guest Post: Frenemies

Pierre Van Zylfamily, guest posts

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This isn’t the way I had wanted it to be. When I met and married my husband I had envisioned a relationship with my mother in law that would be better than those of other mothers and daughters in law. We would not become frenemies. My husband would not…

Forty percent of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting 12 risk factors throughout life

Pierre Van ZylFact Checked, Health Awareness

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around fifty million people worldwide have dementia, and about ten million more cases are added every year [1]. This is why preventing dementia is so important. Despite how common it is, dementia is not a part of normal ageing, and it has a physical, psychological, social, and economic…

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The rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel

Pierre Van ZylPlanet

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Though necessary for many of the products we use on a daily basis, traditional nickel mining is not very environmentally-friendly. This soil biologist has been working tirelessly since 2004 to find these special plants that naturally “mine” nickel to w…

This Virtual Globe Can Show You How the Earth Looked Millions of Years Ago

Pierre Van ZylPlanet

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The Earth has changed a lot. This interactive globe displays the world as it has been from today to 750 million years ago. It displays the continental drift that occurred as land formed into the map we are familiar with today. To add a personal touch to this journey of the ages, the map allows the user…

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If the Mosquitos Always go Straight for You, Here’s What You Need to Know

Pierre Van ZylEvidence Based, Home + Garden

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Summer in the northern hemisphere is a special time. For a few short months of the year, we get to shed our coats and sweaters and enjoy some warm weather and sunshine. While the hot temperatures and long days make many of us want to get outside and stay there as much as possible, it…

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Farmers Are Buying 40-Year-Old Tractors Because They’re Actually Repairable

Pierre Van ZylHome + Garden

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New isn’t always better than old. No one knows this better than farmers with John Deere Tractors. As new tractors become increasingly costly to repair, farmers are turning back to older models that they can fix themselves. Farmers Buying Old John Deere Instead of New If a farmer buys a new John Deere tractor and…

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Healthy, Mouthwatering Recipe for Spiced Sweet Potato Muffins (Gluten-Free and Vegan)

Pierre Van Zyleat, Snacks + Sides

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Let’s face it: Muffins are just cupcakes we eat in the morning. We pretend muffins are healthier because we swap the frosting for healthier ingredients like bananas, bran, and berries. And hey, there’s no shame in craving something sweet to start the day. However, super sugary foods like many cereal brands, donuts, and yes, even…

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Walmart, Other Retailers, Will Close Stores on Thanksgiving, Ending A Black Friday Tradition

Pierre Van ZylLearn, News + Discoveries, Opinion

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A decade-long crowd-pulling tradition may have come to an end in 2020 as Walmart announced on Tuesday, July 21, that it would close all walk-in stores nationwide on Thanksgiving Day [1]. Since 2012, Walmart and some other major retailers have been opening on Thanksgiving to offer huge sales and Black Friday deals to some of…

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Teenagers Are Dressing Up As Elderly People In Face Masks To Fool Shops Into Selling Them Alcohol

Pierre Van ZylLearn, News + Discoveries

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In the wake of a pandemic affecting millions of lives and leaving many others economically vulnerable, some teenagers on TikTok have decided to take advantage of the situation by dressing up as senior citizens to illegally purchase alcohol [1]. In nearly every country across the world, face masks have become an important public health measure….

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8 Amazing Sacrifices Parents Make To Give Their Children A Better Life

Pierre Van Zylparenting

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The parent-child relationship is not necessarily a sacred or constitutional one. It’s a bond purely set in unconditional love and endless sacrifice. It has always been simple. Parents give birth to children – dependent little humans who need care and s…

Topless and proud of it: Woman embraces life after double mastectomy

Pierre Van ZylWomen’s Health

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About one in eight US women will develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime. It is estimated that in 2020, 276 480 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, and another 48 530 will be diagnosed with non-invasive breast cancer [1]. Breast cancer can be treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, biological…

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17 Year Old Wins $250,000 Top Prize For Inventing Tool That Could Prevent Starvation

Pierre Van ZylNews + Discoveries

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Every year, approximately 1800 high school seniors enter the Regeneron Science Talent Search competition. It’s the most prestigious pre-college science and mathematics competition in the United States.Of that 1800, three hundred students are selected and given two thousand dollars each in awards. From there, forty finalists are flown to Washington DC to compete for an additional 1.8…

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7 of Nature’s Most Powerful Antibiotics

Pierre Van ZylEvidence Based, Heal, Health Awareness

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An antibiotic is any substance that inhibits the growth and replication of a bacterium or kills it outright.  The introduction of antibiotics into medicine revolutionized the way infectious diseases were treated and allowed doctors to treat infect…

9 Common Things That are Tricky for Left Handers

Pierre Van ZylPersonal Growth + Development

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Left handers have had their share of troubles in the past. Left-handedness was stigmatized and often thought of as an abnormality, a sign of weakness, or even demonic possession. To their disadvantage, children were forced to write with their right hands. Fortunately, we know there’s nothing wrong with being left-handed. Now, lefties take up about…

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Stanford scientists created a sound so loud it instantly boils water

Pierre Van ZylFact Checked, News + Discoveries

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Did you know you could boil water by anything other than heating it? Neither did I, until now: Stanford scientists have created a sound that boils water due to its sheer volume.  The Sound That Boils Water Researchers at Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Lab have produced the loudest possible underwater sound. Known as the…

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A 16-Million-Year-Old Tree Tells a Deep Story of the Passage of Time

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As humans, we use a variety of means to give us clues about our past in order to answer questions like where we came from, and how we got here. Written records, ancient ruins, and unearthed remains of people and places have provided us with an immense amount of information to help answer some of…

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Classic Vegan Cheesecake

Pierre Van ZylNo Oil, Pies & Tarts, Recipes, Soy-free, Vegan

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This classic vegan cheesecake is a long time coming. It’s the first traditional cheesecake that I’ve shared on the blog, and it’s taken me a while to get it right. Early in quarantine, I hopped on Instagram stories and took a poll. I asked what sort of recipes readers would like to see more of during quarantine. Some of the answers were predictable: recipes featuring pantry staples, legume recipes, soups and stews, etc. There was enthusiasm for recipes featuring shelf-stable ingredients, which made…

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