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Yesterday, a friend posted to my Facebook timeline some photos she snapped from a commercial flight as it cruised at 38,000 feet over Colorado's raging West Fork Complex of wildfires. This one is so dramatic I thought I'd share it with you. It's a pyrocumulus, or "fire cloud." The intense heat of the inferno below has forced air to rise, leading to cooling and condensation of water vapor, and thereby forming a giant cloud that has risen to extraordinary heights. More about them in a minut

For this upcoming Independence Day holiday weekend, the Florence Freedom are encouraging families to "picnic on the park" on Saturday, July 6 at University of Cincinnati Medical Center Stadium.

In mid-June, seasonal thawing of snow atop the Greenland ice sheet seemed to be taking off, echoing the start to last year's astonishing record melt. Since then, the thaw has slowed, but the pace is still "well above average," according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The image above shows one result. Acquired by the new Landsat-8 satellite, it shows the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet just north of Jakobshavn Isbrae. That glacier is where James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey crew c

Last one of these I’ll do for some while. I also have presences on Tumblr, Facebook (a Page) and G+, but those are just coverage…

Tennis Now’s Lana Maciel reports on the first-round Wimbledon upset of Steve Darcis over Rafael Nadal. No. 5 seed Sara Errani was also upset on the women’s side, while Victoria Azarenka suffered a scary slip on the grass. Serena Williams responds to Maria Sharapova’s pre-Wimbledon comments about their ongoing verbal slams.

Welcome to Double X Science for June 22, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeff Perkel, tech editor. Our topics cover posts since the end of May: Early Puberty Among Adoptees by Health Editor Tara Haelle http://www.doublexscience.org/adoptees-early-puberty-rates/ Calculating Vaccine Risk by Contributor Alison Hagood http://www.doublexscience.org/calculating-vaccine-risk/ Arousal during rape by Contributor Jenny Morber http://www.doublexscience.org/arousal-during-rape/... Читать дальше...

The tranche of panels after this will be serialised in a different place.  It will be mentioned here.

Maj. Gen. Thomas Vandal’s last job would seem to be perfect training for his new role as head of the 2nd Infantry Division on the volatile Korean Peninsula.

Sheldon Horowitz is a retired watch repairman and wise-cracker from New York City and a Korean War veteran relocated to Oslo, where he lives with his granddaughter and her Norwegian husband. In mourning over the recent death of his wife, Sheldon is in near constant anguish too over the loss years before of his only […]

The Traverse City Beach Bums begin a nine-game homestand that features two flyovers, a fireworks night and a book signing, culminating with the Beach Bums annual July Fourth Welcome Home Celebration starting on June 25.