{"id":22196,"date":"2016-02-16T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-discover-a-boiling-river-of-amazonian-legend"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:55:24","slug":"scientists-discover-a-boiling-river-of-amazonian-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-discover-a-boiling-river-of-amazonian-legend","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover a Boiling River of Amazonian Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The universe never ceases to amaze, does it?<\/p>\n

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Deep in the heart of the Amazon, legends tell of a river so hot that it boils from below. As a geoscientist, Andr\u00e9s Ruzo\u2019s training told him the stories couldn\u2019t be true. But that was before he saw the river with his own eyes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s incredible to think there are natural wonders on this planet not yet known to science, but such was the case for the river at Mayantuyacu, publicized for the first time in The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon<\/em>. The book is an engrossing, true story of discovery, adventure, science, and mysticism, told by a man who was driven to explain something impossible, and is now on a quest to preserve it.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boiling-River-Adventure-Discovery-Amaz\u20261506793228<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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The universe never ceases to amaze, does it? Deep in the heart of the Amazon, legends tell of a river so hot that it boils from below. As a geoscientist, Andr\u00e9s Ruzo\u2019s training told him the stories couldn\u2019t be true. But that was before he saw the river with his own eyes. It\u2019s incredible to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62855,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22196\/revisions\/62855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}