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Saturday, May 11, 2024
The rain of fire
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On the morning of October 24, 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted in one of the deadliest volcanic events in recorded history. The nearby towns...
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Saturday, June 4, 2022
Out of the ashes
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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C. E. and its destruction of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum make for a story that is as fasci...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
The burning fields
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It will come as no surprise to regular readers of Skeptophilia that I have a peculiar fascination for things that are huge and powerful and...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Brain of glass
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Because my other option is to go on a crazed rant about how my country is being run by an amoral sociopath, and about how even given that fa...
Monday, October 7, 2019
Pulled from the fires
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Note bene : If you haven't read Umberto Eco's brilliant medieval murder mystery The Name of the Rose and are planning to, be aware ...
Saturday, April 13, 2019
An avalanche of fire
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One of the most utterly terrifying phenomena on Earth is called a pyroclastic flow . Pyroclastic flows are explosive eruptions of volcanoe...
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