Julia Stafford and a coworker curled in the fetal position and it may have saved their lives

There are some differing opinions on how to survive a bear attack, but for one University of British Columbia student playing dead may have saved her life.

Julia Stafford, 20, was collecting rock samples with a co-worker for a Canadian mining company just northeast of Anchorage in Alaska when they spotted a grizzly bear in a foggy ravine.

Stafford, who is from Seattle, told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner the bear walked out of the fog and they realized she had two cubs with her.

"The bear started walking toward us, then running toward us, then jumped on us," Stafford said in King5 video. "Then he kind of pushed us over and then he bit me by the hand and dragged me 20 feet down the rocks."

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She said they tried to walk away from it, but stopped once they realized the bear was following them and tried to get out the bear spray,

The scorching weather that hit much of North America this summer is bad for farmers, crops and one group many people may not think much about - cow-chip throwers.

Cow-chip throwers are volunteers who compete in what is essentially a contest to see who can throw a piece of flattened cow dung the farthest.

And while it sounds like a scenario cooked up by satirical news website The Onion, these contests are held at local fairs and festivals have a huge following in U.S. states with an agricultural bent.

Thousands of men and women angle each year for a shot at breaking the current records: 75.6 m for men, 48 m for women.

Winners from individual festivals duke it out at the World Championship Cow Chip Throw in Beaver, Okla.

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This year, however, the heat and the lack of rain have compromised cow chip supplies right before the Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw and Festival in Prairie du Sac, Wis.

As The Associated Press notes

Brandon Stuart wanted to help so he spent $700 on the Toledo sign and is hoping it will lead to offers

Holly Stuard's husband has purchased a billboard to help his wife's job search (ToledoNewsNow.com)

Unemployment in Ohio sits at more than seven per cent and one man is taking a bit of an unconventional approach to helping his wife find a job.

Holly Stuart lost her job at the University of Toledo due to budget cuts a year ago and hasn't been able to land anything since. So her husband Brandon decided to help out and purchased a billboard to advertise her services.

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"I know she's trying extremely hard, no one prepares like she does," Brandon told Toledo News Now. "It's difficult to watch so I feel like this probably the best I could come up with to help her out."

It reads "Please Hire My Wife" in big letters and lists her Yahoo! email address, her education, experience and a photo.

"Over the last five or six months, she's had a few opportunities come along that we thought looked really positive and unfortunately

Hu Seng hoped to pop out of the box and surprise her, but when she opened it he was passed out

One man's romantic gesture almost killed him when he ended up trapped in an airtight box for much longer than he should have been.

Hu Seng, from China, wanted to surprise his girlfriend with a present, so he decided to mail her himself. The Daily Mail reports he hopped into a box, curled into the fetal position and made a friend tape the box closed and send it via courier to his girlfriend, Li Wang. He was hoping when the box arrived at her office he would jump out of it and surprise her. But that's not quite what happened.

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The couriers mixed up the address and instead of the delivery taking 20 minutes it ended up taking about three hours. Seng had very little air and by the time it arrived at Wang's office, Seng was unable to jump out and surprise her because he had passed out. He had to be revived by paramedics. He

A tourist in Iceland was reported missing, but the search was called off when people realized she was a part of the search group.

Iceland Review reports, the woman was a part of a group travelling by bus. When the bus stopped Saturday afternoon near Iceland's Eldgja canyon in the southern highlands, the woman got off to freshen up and change her clothes. But when she got back on the bus, the other passengers didn't recognize her so they reported her missing.

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They also incorrectly counted the number of passengers. The description of the woman must not have been that accurate because she didn't even recognize it. Not thinking it was her, she joined the search. About 50 people searched the terrain on foot and with vehicles until the early hours of the morning.

A Coast Guard helicopter was even ready to join the search, but foggy conditions prevented that from happening. The search was called off around 3 a.m. when

The images include a trillium and Mounties on their horses

Torontonians have spent the last five years looking at the colourful CN Tower, but it isn't simply random colours beaming from those elevator shafts.

In addition to turning the Tower different colours to commemorate fallen political figures or special days such Canada Day, the 252 LED lights sometimes show slivers of images.

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And thanks to compositor Avi Salem, we can now see these images are of a group of Mounties and their horses or a trillium or Canadian flags.

"Since [each image pans] across the elevator shaft revealing a sliver of itself, all I had to do was do the opposite," he reads an email sent to Torontoist. "Using compositing software, I created a slit scan affect on the elevator shaft, and then overlaid it on the original footage."

CN Tower operations manager Tom Mellon explained to the Toronto Star that each image is panned over about 10

Facebook group encourages people to support the prince by saluting in a nearly naked pose

Prince Harry may have taken a lot of flak for showing his royal jewels, but a lot of people also have his back - not in the same way that woman in Las Vegas had his though.

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Former British Army soldier Jordan Wylie started the Facebook group "Support Prince Harry with a Naked Salute" one day after the prince was snapped in Sin City.

"This group was started after a few serving and ex military lads started posting naked salutes to each other in support of Prince Harry," reads the website Salute4Harry. It's currently the fastest growing Facebook group page.

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Tens of thousands of people have joined the group with many posting photos on themselves mostly naked and saluting as the page suggests doing.

"Please cover your crown jewels, tag yourself in your photo as proof of your support to the nations

Bill Nye has always championed a scientific education for kids, most notably on his popular 90's educational series 'Bill Nye the Science Guy.'

But this time, in a new video for the Big Think online knowledge forum, the scientist and television personality is appealing to parents.

Specifically, he's calling out parents who teach their children biblical creationism while denying that evolution is real:

"If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine," he tells viewers. "But don't make your kids do it, because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future."

"Your world just becomes fantastically complicated when you don't believe in evolution," he adds.

Nye posits that denial of evolution is "unique" to the U.S. and it's a surprising contrast in a country known for its bright scientific minds and advanced innovations.

"When you have a portion of the population