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As we enter peak hurricane season, I am prompted to reflect on the scientific story behind these formidable storms. Each year, their occurrence is simultaneously inevitable and unpredictable. And when a particularly destructive one hits, we are shocked into the realization that we humans, despite all our collective strength, wisdom, and world-changing technologies, are sometimes uncomfortably tiny and powerless.

So, what do we know about these remarkable weather events? Surely there is plenty of reading to be done on the subject, but like many scientific phenomena, their story may be most effectively told through information graphics.

This illustration from the October 2004 issue of Scientific American explains how hurricanes form. (It's worth noting that the article, called "Controlling Hurricanes," describes scientists' ambitions to lessen the impact of hurricanes by altering the conditions in which they originate. Twelve years later, this goal still appears far out of reach.)

Another important part of the story is where hurricanes happen. The map below by John Nelson is a visual summary of the geography of hurricanes, showing every hurricane recorded from 1851 to 2012, when the map was produced. The South Pole stereographic projection is quite revealing, and remarkable in that data itself almost seems to approximate the spiral shape of a hurricane.

Nelson's elegant visualization was widely celebrated and shared when he posted it on his blog four years ago. Recently, he revisited the project in the form of a June 2016 post on his new blog, explaining how he created the map.

So, while we're unlikely to be able to control hurricanes anytime soon, we can at least visualize them with impressive precision. Understanding their behavior on both local and global scales is an important step in the effort to mitigate the destruction wrought by these enormous and volatile beasts of nature.

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As we enter peak hurricane season, I am prompted to reflect on the scientific story behind these formidable storms. Each year, their occurrence is simultaneously inevitable and unpredictable. And when a particularly destructive one hits, we are shocked into the realization that we humans, despite all our collective strength, wisdom, and world-changing technologies, are sometimes uncomfortably tiny and powerless.

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This suit is filled with mushrooms that were trained to eat you when you die.

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The Caterpillar Lab - Timeline | Facebook

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Is it a monkey? Is it a slug? No! It's a monkey slug caterpillar! These strange beasts must surely be one of the most outlandish of all New England caterpillars. Finding one crawling down a driveway in Maine as a child I was stumped. What was this thing in front of me?

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Te Urewera national park has been granted legal personhood, meaning nobody owns it. The park has the same rights and powers as a citizen. The ruling could set a new precedent for land rights and conservation around the world.

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LogicalMind#19 Do you know why are altered DNA bases (dideoxy bases) added in Sanger Sequencing? This short and sweet video explains it all: #BeingScientist

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DCTC Disney Cars Toy Club Channel Update

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In this video I explain briefly how to organize a school curiosity project using the 6 Ds of Solution Fluency. By the way, this is the new kind of homework in my school.

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Sustainable practices

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We have free-range, barn-laid and caged, but now a new category of egg has emerged - pastured. More here: http://ab.co/2cjO0YM

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The Lion King intro with Kid Rock's "Bawitdaba"