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Here are four ways your cell phone can help you on your next camping trip. Plus some cool apps

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You know you won’t be able to resist bringing your smartphone along on your next outdoor expedition. So why not make it useful?You know you won’t be able to resist bringing your smartphone along on your next outdoor expedition. So why not make it useful?

VIDEO: U.S. Coast Guard uses cannon to sink wayward Japanese ship off Alaskan coast

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Tourists, residents tangle over access to iconic Hollywood sign

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BirdNote® Navigating by the Earth’s Magnetic Field

Tourists Annoy Locals at Hollywood Sign

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South Korea Revamps Complicated Street Address System

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The South Korean government is revamping the street address system with a more Western approach.

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High Tide for Tidal Power?

Is it high tide for tidal power? Clean energy entrepreneurs are exploring ways to turn the flow of the tides into electricity in the Bay of Fundy.

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Ghost Dive Shop

“There are these virtual ghosts of what the town used to be.”

Adventures Above the Arctic Circle

Breastfeeding at 30 degrees below zero and other tales from Sara Wheeler’s new book, The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle.

Jonathan Coe on ‘The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim’

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It’s now not unusual to wake up alone, drive to work alone, and eat our meals alone. It’s expected that most of our communicating will take place through machines. What does all this isolation do to us? We talk with Jonathan Coe and Karen Jacobson.

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