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Over the past year, we’ve gathered our own little collection of incredible time-lapse videos. In time-lapse style, we’ve showed you the Milky Way, the Northern Lights, a serious snow storm and even the growth of a beard in one year’s time.
The newest time-lapse vid we’ve come across shows off… Read the rest

Spitzmeilen – Swiss winter mountains in time lapse from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.
Michael Rissi is a Medical physicist from Zürich, Switzerland with a… Read the rest knack for creating amazing time lapse videos. He captured the footage for the above video, titled Swiss Winter Mountains, during a two-day ski tour in eastern

The Sky Burial, or jhator… Read the rest (which literally translates to “giving alms to the birds”), is a once-common Tibetan burial practice in which a human corpse is mutilated before being left on a mountaintop as food for vultures.
According to a fascinating article in ZME Science, the monks (rogyapas) who prepare

November 17-18th marks the onset of the famed Leonids meteor shower. The Leonids get there name from the constellation Leo, and from a good dark vantage, one can expect to see 500+ meteors an hour. If it’s clear and you have an alarm clock, don’t miss it. For advice on… Read the rest