Singing Puppies to Sleep
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The grandmother who turns cats into hats
Robyn Eades, who lives on a Tasmanian island, says her designs are increasingly popular, and she has taken orders from as far away as Siberia.
But although most of her designs are made from the skins of feral cats which roam the island, the trapper who sends her the carcasses admits his haul includes the odd unlucky pet.
The self-styled artist, 60, lives on remote King Island in the middle of the Bass Straight, south of Australia.
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Rehabitating Sea Lions
A Peruvian Rescue and rehabilitation team trains sea lions to reentry into the wild using unique methods. This video shows the astonishing bond that can develop between man and animal.
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Forecasting Politics With Baseball Stats
Who will win the election in November? A technique from baseball stats may predict the answer.
Nate Silver was bored. He’d graduated from the University of Chicago in economics and gone on to a typical consulting job, but it didn’t interest him much. Not as much as baseball, that’s for sure.
The job came with one nice perk, though: access to a cool, geeky statistics software package. It was just the thing for analyzing baseball data. Before long, Silver could use it to predict how good a baseball player’s season would be — and he could do it better than anyone else.
Silver’s method catapulted him into a new career as a hotshot baseball analyst. But his tendency to noodle around with side interests didn’t stop. He tackled a new game, politics. The result? Once again, he bettered all the old-timers.
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