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kottke.org posts about weather

On lightning strike survivors

On lightning strike survivors. “Because strikes are so rare, and because their symptoms are so obscure, victims are often dismissed by doctors, not surprisingly, as malingerers or told they have psychosomatic disorders.”


Short series of photos from an Iraqi sandstorm

Short series of photos from an Iraqi sandstorm.


The second of Elizabeth Kolbert’s three-part series

The second of Elizabeth Kolbert’s three-part series on global warming for the New Yorker. This one’s about how relatively short-term climate change can affect entire civilizations.