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Sprouted acorn from the thousand year old oak. #Volkenroda #Germany

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Thousand year old oak. Looked like a Hobbit house. I think a car could fit in there. #Volkenroda #Germany

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Audience in the forest . . . To scale. #Volkenroda #Germany

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Audience near the forest. #eastgermany #volkenroda

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In the forest. #Germany #Volkenroda #Thuringia

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Walk in the forest. #eastgermany #volkenroda

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I miss #Volkenroda. #nofilter Eleventh century Cistercian monastery in east Germany.

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Bowl of plums outside Petra Arndt's Gallery. #Volkenroda #Germany

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Photo: Artist at work. #OC #Tustin http://t.co/bqbfgA3181

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Artist at work. #OC #Tustin http://t.co/8uZDQcqFiH

— punctiliar (@punctiliar) November 14, 2013

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Artist at work. #OC #Tustin

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Triple Whammy: Why Typhoon Haiyan Caused So Much Damage

The deadly typhoon that swept through the Philippines was one of the strongest ever recorded. But storms nearly this powerful are actually common in the eastern Pacific. Typhoon Haiyan’s devastation can be chalked up to a series of bad coincidences.

Typhoons — known in our part of the world as hurricanes — gain their strength by drawing heat out of the ocean. Tropical oceans are especially warm, which is why the biggest storms, Category 4 and Category 5, emerge there. These storms also intensify when there’s cool air over that hot ocean.

"The Pacific at this time of year is very ripe and juicy for big typhoons," says Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Once or twice a year we get a Category 5 typhoon out there."

"But it’s a great rarity, fortunately, that a storm just happens to reach peak intensity when it’s making landfall. And that’s what happened in this case."

As it approached one large island in the Philippines, the storm pushed up into a broad bay. That created a 13-foot storm surge that caused widespread devastation at the head of that bay, in the city of Tacloban.

Mountains also wring rainwater out of storms like these. And then there’s the wind.

"So we had a triple whammy, of surge, very high winds and strong rainfall," Emanuel says

The map above shows the amount of heat energy available to Typhoon Haiyan between Oct. 28 and Nov. 3. Darker purple indicates more available energy. Typhoons gain their strength by drawing heat out of the ocean. The path of the storm is marked with the black line in the center of the image. (NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory)

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Christening the Ford: inside the most advanced, most expensive warship ever built

This weekend, the United States Navy christened what many claim is its greatest engineering achievement: the USS Gerald Ford supercarrier, the first in a completely new line of warships called the Ford class.

The ship, seated in a huge dock on the James River near the southern district of Newport News, Virginia, is the most technologically advanced, the most expensive, and one of the largest warships ever built. That’s according to the Navy, but there’s not much reason to doubt the assertions. The ship is huge. Rising out of the ocean to the height of a large office complex and stretching out toward the horizon as far as a couple football fields, it’s able to house a town’s population of more than 4,500 people, and, when it’s finally commissioned for duty on the high seas in 2016, it will weigh an astonishing 90,000 tons.

Mary and Jesus - A Thai interpretation. #Catholic #Icon #Thai

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Red bean sesame ball deep fried gluten free deliciousness #nofilter

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#helnowedding Best wedding favors ever!!!

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