There's a club open to people from all around the world, but you wouldn't want to join: The club is exclusively for people who've survived a lightning strike. Lightning strikes kill about 24,000 people worldwide
Many people are fascinated by thunderstorms and there’s nothing quite as inspirational as watching lightning strike right before your very eyes. Unfortunately, though beautiful, lightning can also be extremely deadly. On average, in just the United States alone, 67 people die each year as a resu...
Direct lightning strikes account foronly 3%–5% of lightning strikes to humans. More than half (50%–55%) of lightning victims experience the effects of a ground strike, and about a third (30%–35%) experience a side flash. During a ground strike (which is probably what my family and I...
Hundreds of people are struck by lightning each year while camping, hiking, and boating. Here’s how to stay safe when you’re savoring summer in the great outdoors.
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Tornado safety is pretty elementary – quite literally; if you grow up here in “tornado alley,” sometime during your grade school years a kindly local weatherman will probably show up at your school and teach you how to survive a twister. For me,Gary Englandwas that kindly local weatherman...
Maybe our technology can help us survive a few lightning strikes to the face, but it’ll still be horribly unpleasant to go through it, and any single lightning strike has the potential to wipe us out. Let’s look at it another way. Let’s imagine the Earth is a hard drive, and ...
I think Twitter will survive and will still be around 20 years from now, but I think it will be made better if Tumblr is there nipping at its heels with some really excellent user experiences, maybe innovating the forms, and just pushing the bleeding edge. I mean, maybe Tumblr will ...
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Continued global warming and its subsequent changes in the world's climate means that a variety of species will have to adapt. Unfortunately, not all species may survive these drastic changes. If the world maintains its current trajectory of a 2-degree Celsius (more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit) ...