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Giving puppy cam a run for its cute, cute money. This would be better if there were a whole punch of baby pandas lying atop one another, snuggling, sleeping, and generally being winning, but even one panda is pretty powerful, cute-wise.

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1. Related: Live Puppy Cam

This is why bears are so awesome. As the tumble log Bears R Chill points out, “This bear is getting its Halloween costume ready.”

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SCIENCE BUZZ: In the first presidential debate, John McCain cited a bear DNA study as an example of pork barrel spending. He seemed also to imply a hatred of bears. The bear project in Montana, as it turns out, isn’t a pork product, and even the numbers he quoted were wrong. Nonetheless, his dislike of bears remains.

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1. McCain’s Beef with Bears? - Pork
2. Other Ways In Which McCain is Wrong About Bears

TV BUZZ: The prequel series to Werner Herzog’s documentary, Grizzly Man, premieres tonight on Animal Planet. The New York Times reviewed the show, and said it looks like “a chronicle of one man’s extended suicide”. Timothy Treadwell, the deceased star of Grizzly Man, is obviously the star of the show, as the 8 part documentary takes viewers through the hours of unused footage of Treadwell playing with bears, calling them names, and being generally crazy. Kids, don’t play with bears.

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1. Scenes From The Grizzly Man Prequel
2. The Grizzly Man Diaries
3. Observer of Grizzly Bears, Seen in Haunting Hindsight
4. The Show Seems Set To Be Quite Worthwhile
5. An Exploration of a Man Trying to Find a Solid Center
6. Proximity Trumps Pathology

BUSINESS BUZZ: Setting off to see bears in the wild is a growing eco-tourism trend. Despite documentary evidence that spending too much time around grizzlies can be dangerous to your health (they attack!), it’s a booming niche travel market, and guides insist it’s safe.

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1. Face-to-Face With the Grizzly
2. Video: Grizzly Bear Tourism
3. Great Bear Nature Tours
4. Knight Inlet Lodge
5. The Bears of Bute

SCIENCE BUZZ: Scientists have filmed bears in the wild, on camera and getting down. It’s nice to see bears dancing in a way that doesn’t involved being tortured. Thank you, bears, and sorry about the hot coals.

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1. Watch the Awesome Bears: The Bear Rub
2. Science is Fun: Catching Dancing Bears in Their Element
3. Japanese Bear Does “Stick Dancing”
4. Breakdancing Bear (NOTE: Not Actual Bear)
5. Weirdly Compelling Yet Totally Inane Spinning Wooden Bears