Night on Bald Mountain In one of the most vivid works of horror, a mountain peak morphs into a demon that unfurls massive wings and glowing yellow eyes. The being summons specters from graveyards, who flock to the mountain. As the minions arrive, the demon seizes them and tosses them into the mountain’s inferno. Instead
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Devils Thumb & the Diablo Traverse “All the photographs were striking, but the one on page 147 was much, much more than that: it made my skin crawl. An aerial photo by glaciologist Maynard Miller, it showed a singularly sinister tower of ice-plastered black rock. There wasn’t a place on the entire mountain that looked
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Black Cats Nothing says Halloween like a pumpkin or jack-o’-lantern. But right beneath the orange squashes in the pantheon of spooky symbols are ghosts, skeletons, bats, vampires, zombies, witches, and black cats. How did adorable, ebony felines end up signifying Halloween alongside fictional monsters? 🎃 👻 💀 🦇 🧛 🧟🧙🏼♀️ 🐈⬛ Evil denizen or gorgeous floof? – photo by Editleyici
A New Kitty The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on. –Carl Sandburg, Fog We’ve probed our planet so thoroughly that you might think the days of discovering big, unseen critters could be over. Bacteria, insects, even tiny birds, sure. Perhaps something large from the depths
Teleported Scientists in China recently announced an engineering breakthrough for quantum teleportation. The preceding sentence is not science fiction. This bizarre phenomenon relies on a couple of esoteric, tough-to-understand concepts from physics. One is the “quantum state” of a particle or system: the condition of a few key attributes of subatomic particles. Think of it
The Scale of Disaster [Editor’s note: This article contains video that likely displays the loss of human life. None of the video features granular details, as it exhibits events from a distance. Still, if you have trouble with this sort of topic, please consider skipping the videos. We decided this topic is important enough to
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The Fish Doorbell Humanity possesses the impressive ability to mold natural elements to make our lives better. We can manipulate waterways, drive through mountains, and harness invisible forces to generate power. Today, scientists and engineers understand well how these projects might affect other species. But before we had a nuanced, non-ignorant view of the interconnectedness
Volcán Tajumulco – Guatemala and Central America’s High Point Despite its proximity to sea level – nowhere in the region lies more than 125 miles from an ocean – Central America contains some serious elevation. The American Cordillera forms a nearly continuous backbone from South America’s continental toes in Patagonia to the tippy pate of Alaska’s coast along
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The History of Eclipse Photography Here lie the bodies of Ho and HiWhose fate though sad was visible,Being hanged because they could not spyTh’eclipse which was invisible. Heigh ho! ’tis said, that being drunkThus brought them into trouble,But surely this is incorrect,As drunken folks see double! —Book of Documents Since the dawn of the Solar System,
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Ambience Antarctica Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they’re alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way – cleanly, clearly. That’s the essence of ice, the role it plays. –Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman I was greeted
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