The most intense lightning; recycled hair; tick-fighting tips; Charlemagne’s big deal
| PHOTOGRAPH BY REBECCA HALE AND MARK THIESSEN/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION | | First one foot, severed, washed up on shore. Then another. In the next few years, 21 feet—all but one in sneakers (as illustrated above)—floated to the Pacific Northwest shoreline.
A panicked populace wondered: Who were the killers? Were aliens involved? The truth was even more unexpected.
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| PHOTOGRAPH BY LINDSEY K. MCINTIRE | | Stimulating the vagus: Can massaging this section of your neck help alleviate conditions such as migraines or PTSD? A device is simply held against the side of your neck, or the ear. (An airman demonstrating the use of one device.)
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| PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK THIESSEN | | The tiger finder: For National Camera Day, here’s a look at the custom-made camera car that Nat Geo Explorer Steve Winter took to document tigers in a new way. His dream shot was a tiger’s face seen from below. The challenge was getting that perspective in a way that didn’t end with his own face inside the animal’s mouth.
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| PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTEROFTRUST.ORG | | That's my hair! That's right—cut hair is being used as a fertilizer, to soak up oil spills, or even woven into mats above soil to prevent water from evaporating. Can we keep more of the hundreds of tons of hair tossed each day out of landfills?
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Today’s soundtrack: In a Big Country, moe.
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