When an enormous brown bear started heading toward this wildlife photographer, he knew he was about to get the shot of a lifetime. However, we can’t blame Isaac Spotts for getting a little nervous when the animal kept getting closer and closer! Thankfully, the bear eventually bypassed the photographer and wandered off. Isaac ended up getting some of the most epic nature footage ever! In an awe-inspiring video on social media, this wildlife photographer shared his incredible clips and photos of the huge brown bear. She cut a pretty menacing figure as she waded through shallow water toward the young man! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Isaac Spotts (@isaacspicz) “Here she comes,” he said, marveling at the animal. Of course, the wildlife photographer’s camera made it look like the brown bear was a lot nearer than she actually was. When Isaac cut back to his setup, which required him to kneel in the water behind his camouflaged tripod, it was clear that there was a lot of distance between the creature and himself. However, she was still way closer than most people would be comfortable with! “This moment really had my heart pounding…” Isaac wrote in his caption on social media. This spectacular footage has been going viral online. Many commenters actually got a little nervous seeing the large bear headed straight for the wildlife photographer! Photo by Zdeněk Macháček on Unsplash “My heart is pounding just watching that video!” one person wrote. “Amazing footage!” Another joked, “What an incredible pee your pants moment!!!” As a wildlife photographer, Isaac has managed to capture tons of rare and beautiful bear content with his camera. However, not all of it is quite as nerve-wracking as this video. In fact, some of his other nature clips are downright sweet! For example, this footage of two bears playing together is absolutely precious. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Wildlife Photographer Captures Massive Bear Walking Toward Him In “Heart-Pounding” Moment appeared first on InspireMore.

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When Lyla Leathem saw her mom collapse into an epileptic seizure, she remained calm and knew just what to do. She knew she was supposed to call her great-grandmother—but her mom Leah’s phone was locked. The four-year-old ran upstairs and asked Amazon Alexa to make the call instead. Mother Leah Bigg had fallen unwell at […] The post Quick-thinking 4-year-old Girl Uses Alexa to Call for Help as Mom Suffers Epileptic Seizure appeared first on Good News Network.

Books Choose Your Own Adventure Six Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books for Infinite Reading Possibilities From Shakespeare to fantasy heists to quantum physics, here are six books that bring back the thrill of the classic choose-your-own-adventure experience! By Sam Reader | Published on September 5, 2024 Photo by Javier Allegue Barros [via Unsplash] Comment 0 Share New Share Photo by Javier Allegue Barros [via Unsplash] Many of us have fond memories of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, those staples of youth where you’d mark your place with a finger and flip backwards and forwards through their pages, trying to avoid a horrible end or a bad choice. Someone I know even plotted out every single book he’d read, drawing out decision trees and putting a star next to the best ending. For those of us who’re a bit older, it’s difficult to recover the thrill of those gamebooks, especially because the majority of literature tends to be frustratingly (and a little boringly) linear. Luckily, in recent years there have been a number of attempts to rectify this, encompassing everything from quantum SF to cosmic horror to gamebooks that recall that bygone era when a narrative could go in every direction possible. Here are six of our favorites…  All This and More by Peng Shepherd Thanks to a quantum technology known as “bubbling,” the hottest new TV reality show, All This and More, lets one person per season alter the fabric of their life. Shepherd’s ambitious take on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics casts you, the reader, as both observer and participant in the most recent season of All This and More, setting up the initial interactions between Talia Cruz (the season 1 winner and host) and Marsh (the show’s contestant) before splitting into a choose-your-own adventure book where the reader’s decisions influence the story. Before you’re even face with the first choice, the reader is given a front-row seat to Marsh’s life as only reality TV could tell it, serving as a brutal satire of how empathy and misfortune are mined for entertainment and then plunging into an exploration of how the myriad moments and choices—or refusal to choose—can influence and alter the course of one life. While Shepherd might take a little while to get going, rest assured, this one hits hard. To Be or Not to Be by Ryan North (and William Shakespeare; Illustrated by various artists) We all know the story of Hamlet: a Danish prince sees his dead father’s ghost on the ramparts of his castle and embarks on a convoluted revenge plot to bring his uncle to justice. But what if there were more to the story? In Ryan North’s inspired Shakespearean satire (the joke being that Shakespeare just plagiarized his route through an Elizabethan choose-your-own-adventure book) To Be or Not to Be, you get to explore all the choices Shakespeare and his characters never made, whether that’s playing as Hamlet’s father and trying to get Horatio to avenge you or helping Ophelia fix the castle’s central heating problem. The humor might be wild and anachronistic, but North’s sincerity and full commitment to the bit turns what could be an extended wink at the audience into a wild ride through multiple alternate versions of Hamlet with a staggering number of choices. Life’s Lottery by Kim Newman Best known for Anno Dracula, a horror epic doubling as a history of horror fiction, Kim Newman wrote Life’s Lottery to be read both from beginning to end and played as a choose-your-own adventure novel. You are Keith Marion, an average English boy at an average school, asked in a schoolyard fight to choose your favorite character from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.—Napoleon Solo or Ilya Kuryakin. This simple choice sends you spiraling through narrative twists, everywhere from achieving true enlightenment to ruling the world through your depraved megacorporation. That is, provided that you don’t look too closely at the intermittent pages outside the book’s boundaries. Or how you’re chased by spiders. Or how the same Satan figure and two doctors keep popping up whenever you stop playing the game. While there’s more than meets the eye if you color outside the lines, Newman’s book when played straight is a touching exploration of the human experience and the different ways all our lives can go with one simple choice. We All Hear Stories in the Dark by Robert Shearman One part bizarre metafictional narrative about the ways stories flow and one part choose-your-own-adventure, We All Hear Stories is massive not just in size (101 stories over three volumes) but in undertaking. In a framing device, a widower encounters a mysterious librarian who sets him off on a quest to read every book in the world on order to (hopefully) resurrect his wife. This is just a showcase for Shearman’s vast hoard of stories, each one guiding you by a series of choices to your next exhibit. While there’s a “correct” sequence (the framing device has a “good ending” and a “bad ending”), it’s more fun to just find your vibe on a self-guided tour of stories that inject heart and an unnerving note of menace into bizarre premises like “three men are trapped within a series of bad jokes” and “a brother forces his sister to ritually execute her dolls.” Shearman’s got a story for everyone, and all of them are strange. Super Giant Monster Time! by Jeff Burk (Illustrated by Chrissy Horchheime) Released when the “bizarro” movement was at its peak, Burk’s wicked little adventure (billed as a “Choose Your Own Mind-F*ck-Fest”) casts you as one of three characters—a punk rocker, a research scientist, and “a boring office worker” amid an apocalyptic alien invasion. All around you, people are being turned into violent, crazed punks out of an ’80s movie by aliens, giant monsters are rampaging through the city, and with each new choice, things go from bad to worse. While intended as a parody of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books with the same amount of horrid death but an added helping of shock humor, Burk manages to walk the line between edgy humor and genuine fun. While the 2010s humor hasn’t all aged well (and honestly, what in the 21st century ever does?), this entry isn’t a bad way to spend some time flipping through its myriad choices. Into the Tower by Hari Conner (Illustrated by Conner and various artists) A “choose-your-own-path” book by the official illustrator for The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance card game, Into the Tower is a massive (320 pages is a lot for a gamebook) solo adventure meant to evoke the classic gamebooks of the ’80s and ’90s. Once every ten years, a masquerade ball is held at the impenetrable Locked Keep. The ball is your way into the infamous tower of the spellbinder princess and a dangerous hoard of magical items locked away by the kingdom. Your mission as one of several unique characters (Conner gives you a quick-start guide with challenge ratings and even ways to “cheat” and make the game easier or harder for yourself) is to breach the tower’s defenses and find your way inside to your hopeful fortune and heart’s desire. Conner’s imaginative descriptions and gift for detail are backed up by their excellent illustrations throughout, providing a wealth of reasons to pick up a pencil and draw up a new character to challenge the Locked Keep and its mysterious tower again and again.  [end-mark] The post Six Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books for Infinite Reading Possibilities appeared first on Reactor.