High winds blow empty semi truck off Marine Drive. Driver OK #fox12 pic.twitter.com/LThnS63tRW— Jamie Wilson (@JWilsonreporter) December 21, 2015 A car across the street was also struck by the falling tree. Fortunately no one hurt. #LiveOnK2 pic.twitter.com/6plWvhLL79— Reed Andrews (@ReedKATU) December 21, 2015 Check out the damage inside this Forest Grove home after a huge […]
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Ten Songs to Listen to as We Drown in the Flood
No, I’m not including “When the Levee Breaks” and get the hell outta here with “Riders on the Storm.”
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Portland’s Upcoming Cataclysmic Quake: The First Four Minutes
Thomas James [Editor’s note—As Erik Henriksen pointed out in “Good Morning, News!”, we’re ALL GOING TO DIE. The New Yorker just wrote at length about the big earthquake that’s going to plunge the Pacific Northwest into a hellpool of carnage and destruction, but they only just got wise to what we’ve been telling you since […]
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Our Next Big Event: The Portland Mercury Llama Drama
Following today’s astonishing chase in Arizona in which two llamas led the entire city on an extended merry (and hilarious) chase, the Portland Mercury is pleased to announce our next big city-wide event… THE PORTLAND MERCURY DOWNTOWN LLAMA DRAMA Basically, it goes like this: We’re renting 50 llamas. Each one will be fitted with a […]
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No More Lost Decades on Climate Change?
There’s some hope amid the latest grim report: Delivering the latest stark news about climate change on Sunday, a United Nations panel warned that governments are not doing enough to avert profound risks in coming decades. But the experts found a silver lining: Not only is there still time to head off the worst, but […]
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The Percentage of Americans Who Worry “A Great Deal” About Climate Change
Basically the same as 25 years ago: Just over one-third of Americans worry “a great deal” about climate change, down one percent from 1989. That despite nearly every other climate change metric—temperatures, sea levels, carbon dioxide concentration, and major storms—continuing to steadily increase. I’m not sure what would account for this, but concern about climate […]
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Robots Write the News Now—and I Couldn’t Be Happier
The LA Times is one of the media organizatins leading the pack when it comes to making their own employees superfluous—because now they’re using robots to write their breaking news stories. From the BBC: The Los Angeles Times was the first newspaper to publish a story about an earthquake on Monday – thanks to a […]
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Fifteen Years Left Before Machines Outsmart You
Says this guy: By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart even the most intelligent humans, according to Google’s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil. He also calls this idea “not radical anymore.”
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Facebook Admits a Drop in Daily Use Among Young Teens
David Lieberman at Deadline points out one of the most noteworthy parts of Facebook’s earnings call: …CFO David Ebersam said the company had seen a drop in use among young teens. “Our best analysis on youth engagement in the U.S. reveals that usage of Facebook among U.S. teens overall was stable from Q2 to Q3, […]
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Birth of a Killer Tornado
Okay, so I just watched this video? And my PTSD from growing up in tornado alley Alabama just jumped into overdrive. This completely engrossing video was shot by a guy who witnessed the birth of the tornado that ravaged Oklahoma and took dozens of lives. At :50 you see it coming out of the sky, […]
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Some Last Thoughts on the Big Quake Before We’re Lulled Back into a False Sense of Security
In the wake of writing yet another earthquake story, I find myself once again more than a little annoyed by the surrender-to-the-fates, let-go-and-go-with-god attitude some readers seem to take toward preparing for the big earthquake expected to wreck the Northwest sometime in the next 50 to 100 years. Here’s my short answer to all this […]
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Another Reason Obama is Awesome: He Has His Own Shape-Shifting Alien Bodyguard!!
Did you know I once applied for the Secret Service? (I was rejected for OH, so many obvious reasons.) HOWEVER! Now I don’t feel so bad because I know who I was up against: SHAPE-SHIFTING ALIENS. According to this hilariously (totally serious, guys!) report, a “reptilian shape-shifting humanoid alien” was spotted working on President Obama’s […]