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A creator on the streaming service Nebula has published a new video documenting a week spent sleeping on a Stone Age-style mattress. The piece, part of a first-run series on the platform, explores what prehistoric bedding might have been like in practice. It is being shared as part of ongoing interest in experimental history and first-person lifestyle experiments.

The Bar Harbor Garden Club is hosting a presentation titled "The State of Maine's Loons" by Nathaniel Austin of Maine Audubon, held at Birch Bay Village. The event focuses on the condition of loon populations in Maine, a topic of local interest to gardeners and conservation-minded residents. The local outlet Bar Harbor Story reported on the talk.

A photographer outside Birchip, in Victoria's Wimmera-Mallee region, filmed a tornado with an iPhone 17 Pro at maximum zoom, compressing five minutes of footage into eight times speed. The clip shows the storm looking due south and is being shared widely as severe weather hits regional Victoria.