Feb. 1, 2026

Pose Nude for Snow Removal

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A small town in Oregon raised money by posing nude for a calendar to clear snow-clogged streets. An AI-powered robot assists in restoring the Great Barrier Reef by deploying coral larvae. The upcoming Olympics in Milan are focusing on sustainability by repurposing existing structures for the Olympic Village, which will later serve as student housing. New technology from Fish Eye Collaborative helps match underwater sounds to fish using 360-degree video. Finally, Columbia CEO Tim Boyle humorously challenges flat earthers to prove their theory, offering the company's assets as a reward.

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Caalaroka Shark Media. By there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. I don't know about you. I am

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done with winter. Oh my well. A small town, Oregon

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couldn't afford to properly clear the snow from its street,

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so residents did what they had to do. They got naked.

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That's right. A group of mostly middle aged and elderly

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men and women volunteered to pose nude for a calendar

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to raise money for the town of Lakeview. The photos

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feature mister September he's a seventy two year old man

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picking berries, and a seventy seven year old woman reclining

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in a metal bathsub. She's the cover. Margo said, if

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you take your clothes off, your face looks different. I

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felt like the picture would be a better picture. Margo

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presented the idea at a town council meeting during the summer.

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The council was like, I don't know if anyone's going

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to do that. Oh no, people did it. It's called

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the Outback Naked Calendar. Good news if you're a coral reef.

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If in the Great Barrier Reef, an AI powered robotic

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assistant is helping the Australian Institute of Marine Science and

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their researchers restore damaged coral reefs. The Deployment Guidance system

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scans the seafloor defined sections with bleached reef segments, then

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drops down coral larvae housed inside ceramic analogs specifically designed

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to offer protection to juvenile coral while they grow to adulthood.

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I was there in twenty fifteen. I think I caught

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the last five minutes of the barrier reef before it

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got bleached. Very fortunate to do. It was beautiful, so

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I hope the scientists do figure that out. The Olympics

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are coming up and accommodations are being designed with sustainability

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in mind. Rather than building massive new complexes from scratch,

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the IOC set each site is making use of existing

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or temporary structures, limiting new construction and adapting the local

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needs while still delivering the full Olympic Village experience. Main

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Olympic Village in the heart of Milan will host both

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Olympians and Paralympians. The site was once an abandoned railway

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yard and it's been trans formed into six residential buildings

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that will accommodate about fifteen hundred residents during the games.

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After the Olympics wrap up, the village will be converted

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into student housing, providing roughly seventeen hundred beds for local students.

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About thirty percent of the apartments will be offered at

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subsidized rates, going for about four hundred and thirty euros

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a month. Not bad live in Milan, Sign me up.

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It turns out the ocean is a lot noisier than

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most of us realize. Scientists that the Fish Eye Collaborative

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have developed a new underwater tool that pairs sound recording

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with three hundred and sixty degree video. The technology allows

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researchers to match specific sounds to the exact fish producing them.

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For example, fish don't just swim around silently by vibrating

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internal air sacks, rubbing their teeth and fin spines together,

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and sometimes even forting. Think about that next time you're swimming.

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Fish produce a wide range of sounds, including apparently farts, grunts, boops, clicks, hums,

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and bubbling burps. If this show makes your day a

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and Good News if you're a conspiracy theorist who's always

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dreamed of owning your own sportswear company. Columbia CEO Tim

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Boyle is directly challenging flat earthers. In a new ad,

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Boyle looks onto the camera and says, you, guys claim

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there's an end of the Earth, Well, snap a picture,

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send it to us, and you get the assets of

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the company, all of it. The rules the photo must

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show a visible physical edge of the planet, specifically describing

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said edge as a quote infinite sheer, drop, abyssle, void

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clouds cascading into infinity. They also clarify what does not

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count as the edge of the Earth. Those examples include

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a cliff top in Seattle, a cul de sac in Kansas,

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or your buddy Dave legally changing his name to the edge,

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which is the reference for you two fads boil ends,

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the ad saying hey flat earthers, do me a favor.

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If you're going to the edge of the earth were Colombia.

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Those are your five kod news stories for today. Have

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a great day.