Clear camera work and the type of tornado not obscured by rain, etc. Hard to believe 4 people lived through that. The 3rd tornado was the longest and most destructive and touched down between Clear Lake and Gary, SD. It was rated a high end EF3 with wind speeds estimated at 155-165 mph. The tornado …
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Spring by Mork
“A View of Hornbæk”, 1916 By, Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859-1941) Oil on canvas This painting portrays a peaceful rural scene in Hornbæk, Denmark. He was incredibly prolific. This one is a wonderful depiction of spring. I am ready for it.
Spring Sounds
SourceThat nasal “peent” you sometimes hear just after sunset isn’t a frog. It’s the beginning of a courtship ritual that happens over fields and open yards every early spring. As the light fades, a small brown bird calls from the ground for a few minutes. Then, without warning, it lifts straight into the sky, circling …
Sucks for Elon.
Terraforming Mars isn’t a climate problem—it’s an industrial nightmare
Chartreuse
In 1903, the French government expelled the Carthusian monks from their monastery in the Alps and seized everything they owned. The monastery. The distillery. The equipment. All of it. There was just one little problem. Only two monks in the entire order knew the recipe for Chartreuse, and they had memorized it. There was nothing …
How old are Humans
A decent video on the recent flux in the subject. More on the channel.
Saturn
This is the clearest image ever taken of Saturn’s North Pole. A perfect symmetrical storm is raging for decades now and it is over 30,000km across. First spotted by Voyager 1 back in 1980s. NASA Like yesterday’s falcon pix this was called out as AI. The falcon pix looked real enough but this sent red …
Falcon and Cardinal Finale
Winter (and nature in general) can often feel cruel, especially with some species that one might have a particular affinity towards. While I have seen our falcons catch birds on the wing before, having this play out right in front of me was admittedly difficult to watch. Both members of our local pair attempted a …
Cowboys of the Americas
I never heard of some of them. Some places have so few cattle I can see why.
Gulf Stream
Scientists are concerned that if the AMOC were to collapse, it could trigger drastic climate shifts, especially in Europe, where temperatures could plummet. How a shift in the Gulf Stream could signal the collapse of a major ocean current system When that hits it will be hard to predict how bad things will get.