A Beautiful Lightning Display Over Ikaria Source: Chris Kotsiopoulos
This composite of 70 different shots shows a severe lighting storm as it passes over the Greek island of Ikaria.
The Lightning of Catatumbo, Venezuela Source:Alan Highton Flickr
A unique atmospheric phenomenon, the Catatumbo Lightning only occurs in one specific location: where the Catatumbo River empties into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.
Cloud-to-Cloud Lightning Source: Earth Science Picture of the Day
Often seen as a single flash, cloud-to-cloud lightning spreads multiple fingers across the sky as seen here above Gurnee, Illinois. Read More...
In the folklore of Plains and First Nations people, the wendigo was once a legendary hunter who turned to cannibalism — and became an insatiable monster.As the tale goes, the wendigo was once a lost hunter. During a brutally cold winter, this man’s intense hunger drove him to cannibalism. After feasting on another human’s flesh, he transformed into a crazed man-beast, roaming the forest in search of more people to eat. Read More...
An iconic leader of the 1960s counterculture, Tom Hayden went from protesting the American political system to working within it.Tom Hayden devoted his life to progressive ideals that the American establishment deemed radical in the 1960s. As a founder of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), he mobilized thousands of young people to speak up against the Vietnam War and demand civil rights for all. Unsurprisingly, Hayden quickly became a counterculture icon — and he also got into a lot of trouble. Read More...
