From scary sea myth to reality; a Tuscan ride
 | | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | | The swells come seemingly out of nowhere—amazingly steep and potentially deadly. Sometimes the gargantuan waves emerge, puzzlingly, from calm waters.
“They resemble a wall of water rising out of the sea,” Ally Hirschlag writes for Nat Geo.
For centuries, rogue waves were dismissed as maritime tales, but now the rare phenomena (portrayed above) have been confirmed—and mathematicians are working on predicting these sudden, towering waves. How? By combining real-world data collected from monitoring buoys with statistical models.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY VERONIQUE SARANO | | Proof: A photograph of a breaking rogue wave in the Southern Ocean. The shape is remarkably similar to that depicted in the iconic woodblock print (pictured at top) by Katsushika Hokusai.
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| | Why rush through Tuscany? These days, you can zip from Florence to Siena in an hour. But why? That’s the question Vicky Hallett explores in her delightful account of a road trip through the Italian countryside. Traveling fast, you might miss these fields of sunflowers at sunrise near the pristine medieval community of Buonconvento. Nearly 400,000 people have “liked” Michael Yamashita’s photo (above), recently showcased with others on our Instagram page. | | | |
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| | | (Not so) Little Caribbean: A corner of Brooklyn is home to the largest and most diverse community of people of Caribbean ancestry outside the West Indies. Now residents are seeking national historic status for the neighborhood, Melissa Noel reports. “This area is like a one-stop shop for all things Caribbean,” says McDonald “Big Mac” Romain, whose market sells island favorites from cassava to callaloo. We’re hungry already. (Pictured above, a Haitian dance troupe performs at Brooklyn Museum.) | | | |
 | | My lungs heave. They clutch at frozen air. I squint past ice-frosted prayer flags clapping in razored winds. … I feel the Hengduan Mountains opening up as landscapes sometimes do, only once, when you first step into them. | | | | Paul Salopek | Nat Geo Explorer, Out of Eden Walk
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| | | The Blue Ridge Craft Trail: More than 300 accomplished craft artists work in the towns, forests, and mountains of western North Carolina. Now an online guide points toward the shops and studios of traditional glassblowers, potters, weavers, and wood carvers. “It’s not that making occurred in Southern Appalachia because of the isolation—but it lasted here because of the isolation,” craft historian Anna Fariello tells us. (Pictured above, the intricate mats and vessels of basket maker Mary Thompson.) | | | |
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