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How Douglas Fir Trees Shaped The Northwest
131 views / 0 likes - addedIf you live in the Northwest, you've seen a million Doug firs. For centuries, they've been crucial to the Northwest way of life. And if you celebrate Christmas, you might bring one into your home every year. But Doug firs are far more than just pretty sce
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Jurassic Art -- Drawing Dinosaurs
185 views / 0 likes - addedDallas, Oregon paleo artist Mark Halletts 40-year career drawing, painting and sculpting extinct dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals has taken him from Hollywood to India including creating the concept art for Steven Spielbergs Jurassic Park.Subscribe
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Robots: the future of food? -Superabundant S1 E4
131 views / 0 likes - addedGetting food from the ground to the table is not easy. Whether its a server battling sore feet, or a grape picker hustling to harvest while the fruit is perfect, innovators are looking for ways to lighten the load, using a new generation of robots. But wi
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Meet the avalanche rescue dogs of Mount Bachelor
138 views / 0 likes - addedAt Mount Bachelor in Oregon, there's a special unit of workers dedicated just to avalanche rescueand the training starts young! An inside look at Bachelor's own avalanche dog program that trains canines to find buried skiers and snowboarders.Subscribe to
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James Beard, the Pacific Northwest and the birth of the foodie movement
134 views / 0 likes - addedFrom razor clam souffl to her famous currant teacakesMary Beard loved to cook, and always with the freshest seasonal ingredients. Her son James embraced his mothers passion for food. And even as the proclaimed dean of American cookery later moved away and
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Look to the octopus to understand how aliens might think
154 views / 0 likes - addedOctopuses are incredibly smart, yet the majority of their neurons exist in their arms and suckers, and not in their brain, making them as close to alien intelligence as we can find on Earth. Imagine: What if our hands and fingers could think for themselve
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Slime molds are gorgeous (you just never knew it!)
409 views / 0 likes - addedMeet two amateur naturalists who comb the Pacific Northwest woods for a fascinating creature with an unappealing name: slime molds. One of the longest-living life forms on the planet, these single cell organisms have been long overlooked and underapprecia
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Solving the mysteries of how wildfires spread
285 views / 1 likes - addedOnce wildfires start, one of the ways they spread is through firebrandshot embers that blow into unburned areas. It happens quite often, yet theres a lot we still dont know about how firebrands work. To try to answer some of those questions, an Oregon eng
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An Epic Model Railroad Recreates The Columbia River Gorge
618 views / 1 likes - addedEver wonder what it would be like to be a giant towering over the Northwest landscape? You can find out at the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club, where even children loom like Godzilla over all the iconic sites of the Gorge, from Union Station to Multnom
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