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Though it’s difficult for us puny humans to comprehend, most natural processes take milennia to unfold. So even though we invented movie cameras to slow down lightning-fast phenomena, they can also be used to speed up frustratingly slow events. Witness, for instance, Wired Science’s listicle of the Top 10 Time-Lapse Nature Videos, our favorite of [...]

As you may or may not know, record snowfall has hit the Midwest and East Coast of the U.S. over the last two days. Here in New York schools even got a rare snow day, and we’re told children are out in the streets celebrating with snowball fights, igloos, snow angels and the like. Meanwhile, [...]