The Silent Struggle Behind Those “Difficult” Behaviors The Silent Struggle Behind Those “Difficult” Behaviors (image credits: wikimedia) Your normally happy child suddenly refuses to go to school, complaining of mysterious stomachaches. They’ve started having nightmares about you leaving them forever. Bedtime has become a two-hour ordeal of tears and bargaining. Sound familiar? According to the …
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The Mountain Lion That Drops Everything and Runs The Mountain Lion That Drops Everything and Runs (image credits: unsplash) Picture this: a massive mountain lion crouching over a fresh deer kill in the Santa Cruz Mountains, muscles rippling as it tears into its hard-earned meal. Then, suddenly, the sound of human voices drifts through the …
Skydiving: The Misconception of Death from Above Skydiving: The Misconception of Death from Above (image credits: unsplash) Let’s start with what most people consider the ultimate thrill ride – jumping out of an airplane at 15,000 feet with nothing but fabric strapped to your back. In 2024, only nine people died making civilian skydives in …
Waterspouts – Tornadoes That Can’t Touch You on Land Waterspouts – Tornadoes That Can’t Touch You on Land (image credits: By Punta Gorda Police Department, Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1987597) Waterspouts look like massive tornadoes stretching from storm clouds down to the water’s surface, spinning with apparent deadly force as they suck up seawater into towering columns …
The Ghost of the Mountains The Ghost of the Mountains (image credits: wikimedia) High in the rugged peaks of Central Asia, where the air is thin and the landscape harsh, lives one of the world’s most elusive predators. Snow leopards are generally shy and elusive, with no verified reports of them attacking humans in the …