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Enormous 'Megafire' In Australia Engulfs 1.5 Million Acres

Two fires have merged into a single blaze more than three times as big as California's largest-ever known fire. A quarter of a million people have been urged to evacuate towns south of Sydney.

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O'Plerou Grebet is a 22-year-old graphic design student in Ivory Coast. Everywhere he looks, he sees signs of Western influence — from the glass skyscrapers and malls lining the streets in his home city of Abidjan to the way his peers spoke and dressed.

“We are living like we’re Western people,” he says. “It’s like we are not proud of our own culture.”

That even applies to the symbols he texts to friends using the messaging apps on his phone (they especially love to use the “tears of joy” face emoji, he says).

So he used his design skills to create digital stickers that depict what he thinks is missing from global keyboard culture: symbols of history and daily life in Ivory Coast and neighboring countries.

The Emoji Designer Who’s Bringing African Culture To Smartphone Keyboards

Image: O'Plerou Grebet

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As summer approaches and temperatures climb, I thought it would be fun to journey north and visit a creature that builds complex underground homes and doesn’t start shivering until temperatures get cold. Like really, really cold. Read on to discover a few facts about the arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus).

How cold does it have to be for an arctic fox to start shivering? About −70 °C (-94 °F). The Smithsonian notes this small creature is one of “the most superbly cold-adapted mammals.” 

Those adaptations include short ears and a small muzzle, which minimize body surface area (and, by extension, possible points of heat loss). The animal even has fur on its paws to help it walk on ice.

Foxes also stay warm thanks to their amazing multilayered coat. Scientists sometimes refer to this as “pelage” (derived from the Latin word for hair, pilus). This coat changes colors season-to-season – vacillating between grayish-brown in the summer and a striking white in the winter. Other populations have coats that are a beautiful shade of steel-bluish grey.

Arctic foxes feed on other small critters like lemmings, voles, rodents, eggs, fish, and decaying animals.

Their homes are generally situated in frost-free areas, often built into low mounds, or ridges of stratified sand and gravel. Dens can be massive, with dozens of entrances giving way to a complex system of underground tunnels, which can cover up to 1000 square meters. 

According to NOAA, some arctic fox dens have been used for centuries by generations of foxes. 

(Image Credit (clockwise from top): Creative Commons: braerik, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons, Mark Dumont, Cloudtail the Snow Leopard / Source: Smithsonian Museum of Natural History: North American Mammals, Wikimedia Commons, NOAA: Arctic Report Card: Update for 2012, Arctic Fox) 

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So much cute! -Emily

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His name is Eddie Meltzer and he’s 34 years old, but according to NPR’s Ari Shapiro, he looks about 10 years younger. Meltzer’s youthful appearance, however, isn’t what brought him to Shapiro’s attention. Rather, it’s his humanitarian act to assist many families of the victims of the Orlando shooting massacre.

Meltzer tells Shapiro that he’d left Pulse nightclub just five minutes before the shooting began. The next day, as relatives of the victims — many of whom don’t speak English — met with FBI and other law enforcement officials, Meltzer volunteered as a translator and liaison, interpreting dialogue from English to Spanish and back again for all parties.

The Orlando community is slowly shifting from a sense of shock to a deeper understanding of what happened and who the people were that were affected by the tragedy. Shapiro spoke with Meltzer in Orlando about his role in helping to bring some measure of comfort to the grieving families.

Orlando Shooting Survivor Volunteers As Translator For Victims’ Families

Photo: Courtesy of Eddie Meltzer

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Capturing Art in the Dark with Dance Photographer Andrea Mohin

To keep up Andrea’s photography, follow @andrea_mohin on Instagram.

For Andrea Mohin (@andrea_mohin), capturing dance is “like sports photography in the dark, only you don’t know the game.” Whether she’s taking pictures of a tap troupe, a flamenco dancer or the prima ballerina mid-grand jeté, the New York Times (@nytimes) staff photographer says she often senses her subjects’ moves in advance. “You have to be really sharp. You have to listen to the music and try to be part of the rhythm of what is occurring in front of you,” she says. Andrea’s favorite moments are when dancers look suspended in the air, a recurring theme in her feed. “When I shoot an entire program, we can only publish one to three pictures, so I wind up with a whole stash,” Andrea says. “Now I can let other people see what I’m seeing.”

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Happy birthday, Carl Sagan.

We had our last interview with him in 1996. It’s a wide-ranging conversation about pseudoscience, UFOs, the origins of the universe, and a movie he was working on: Contact.

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Concrete Cube | Guilhem Wawrzyniak

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A College Romance That Led to Murder

When Elizabeth Haysom’s parents were brutally murdered, she and her college boyfriend, Jens Soering, were convicted of the crime. Nathan Heller examines why, nearly thirty years after the case was closed, so many unanswered questions remain. Read the story in this week’s issue. 

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Alabama football fans (and probably fratboy shits) put on a perfect display of detached, indifferent, inhuman white privilege before a game against LSU on Saturday.

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Jajaja *0% discriminación*

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