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The ocean off the coast of New York once had a bivalve population of TRILLIONS that once protected the area from storm surges stabilized the shoreline from Washington to Boston.

The best place for oysters is in the margin between saltwater and freshwater, where the river meets the sea, and New York’s harbor area is filled with such places. Until the European arrived and started harvesting them, oysters themselves feasted on the huge algae blooms in that area. Layer after layers of oyster shells built up for more than 7,000 years, resulting in enormous underwater reefs around nearly every shoreline, forming a natural levee.
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You’d expect that something like buying a winning lottery ticket would cause us to take MORE risks in the future, but it doesn’t work that way. And an unexpected loss works the same way. It turns out that it’s not whether you win or lose, but whether the outcome is expected that’s relevant here. People appear to decrease their risk-taking levels after experiencing any surprising outcome–even positive ones.
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New York City got an early Halloween surprise: A superstorm!

It closed down the stock market and the subways, but that city is nothing, if not resourceful.

I remember one time, years ago, when there was an incredible blizzard in New York City–people were strapping on their cross country skis in order to navigate the streets.
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Scott Corrales is one of Latin Americia’s leading UFO and paranormal researchers, and this article on the wave of mysterious transmissions that took place in the 1970s is excellent and important. It is all to easy to see high strangeness only in terms of the present. But it has a long history, and these broadcasts remain a major mystery.
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