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My sudden synaesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colours
Vanessa Potter unexpectedly lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled and hearing and touch changed the way she saw the world.
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Near Death Experiences Make You a Better Person, Apparently
Not one to try at home. By Laila Tyack.
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Eyes Aloft
The Sublime Obsession of Plane Spotting. By Rose Lichter-Marck.
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How a Combat Photographer Named a Phenomenon to Honor Soldiers
While embedded with troops in Afghanistan in the late 2000s, war photographer and writer Michael Yon captured numerous photos of the sparkling halo that can appear when a helicopter’s rotors hit sand and dust... By Michael Zhang.
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Great, Mysterious Balls of Fire Speed by Dying Star
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has seen planet-size cannonballs of hot gas whipping past a dying star, but the origin of these plasma balls remains a mystery. By Elizabeth Howell.
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Vibrant Lightning Sprites Spark Above Hurricane Matthew
A photographer’s good eye captures an elusive phenomenon. By Erin Blakemore. (Oct. 3, 2016)
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Becoming Conscious: A Neurosurgeon Discusses His Transformational Experience
In 2008, neurosurgeon Eben Alexander, MD, woke up in excruciating pain. Within hours, he was in full grand mal seizure and was rushed to the hospital. The diagnosis was a rare and usually fatal form of E. coli bacterial meningitis, and his prognosis was grim. For seven days he lay in a deep coma. Despite the overwhelming odds against his survival, he not only woke up, but...
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Why doesn’t physics help us to understand the flow of time?
From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics? By Gene Tracy.
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A bird ballet
A mesmering murmuration of starlings. By Neels Castillon.
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