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  • Once a Year, the Jindo Sea Parts to Reveal a Road Hidden Beneath. Here's Why...

    05/19/2025 1:04:20 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 11 replies
    https://theculturetrip.com ^ | 12 April 2017 | Mimsie Ladner
    Every year, thousands flock to the southern tip of South Korea to partake in the Jindo Miracle Sea Road Festival. The event celebrates a natural phenomenon in which the Jindo Sea opens up to expose a 1.8 mile long stretch of sand that connects two of the country’s islands. While legend has it that the extraordinary happening is the work of the god of the sea, science suggests it is essentially a perfect storm of gravitational forces. For the time that the path is visible during the festival days – in addition to the two or three other times the...
  • Collaring a new breed of police dog

    11/07/2010 7:27:47 AM PST · by Saije · 50 replies
    LA Times ^ | 11/7/2010 | John Glionna
    The puppies jostled for position, gnawing on one another's tails and rolling in the grass of the outdoor pen. The two Los Angeles policemen watched them with the cool calculation they might give suspects in a crime lineup. Officer Jeff Miller dangled a ball on a string to see if one of the seven dogs would bite — chase a would-be prey and pass the test. "The white female," he said to his partner, Sgt. Doug Roller, without taking his gaze from the animal. "That one likes the ball." The K-9 officers had come to Asia in search of a...