Chris Drudge
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Hamilton, ON, Canada
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A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature—Ball Lightning
Explanations for how ball lightning is formed are even more diverse than its physical characteristics. Just a sampling of the theories… → Read More
Is Obesity Thrifty or Drifty?
Over 72 million Americans are obese—a condition associated with a plethora of negative health outcomes including diabetes, cancer,… → Read More
Living in a Bubble
These five organisms find home in sea foam. → Read More
Rooting for the Favorite Is a Sign of Social Dominance
Over the first week of the Rio Olympics, an ancient narrative played out in the men’s rugby sevens tournament. Rising through a… → Read More
Distraction Can Make You a Faster Cyclist
In the slightly surreal yet decidedly wonderful 2003 animated film The Triplets of Belleville, three drugged cyclists pedal stationary… → Read More
To Measure the Power of Lightning, Get a Shovel
It was a rainy, early summer day in the Hamptons, a few years before the First World War. Robert W. Wood, a physicist (and later a… → Read More
A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning
Every so often, given the proper conditions, a small and roughly spherical piece of the atmosphere around us will briefly catch fire.… → Read More
These Clumps of Undigested Food Used To Be Medicinal Charms
Digestive Tract Bling: A bezoar mounted in gold filigree, from late-17th century India—now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.When… → Read More
Here Are 5 Ways Lightning Shapes Life on Earth
Lightning is the flash and rumble of an electron swarm leaping across the sky. With extravagant swiftness it moves through a cloud,… → Read More