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Rescuers cling to each other as they desperately search for survivors in buildings destroyed in the Mexico quake as death toll reaches 138: image via AFP News agency @AFP, 19 September 2017

Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors on a collapsed building the Del Valle neighborhood in Mexico City, Tuesday Sept. 19, 2017. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has stunned central Mexico, killing more than 100 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust.: photo by Miguel Tovar/AP, 19 September 2017

Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors on a collapsed building the Del Valle neighborhood in Mexico City, Tuesday Sept. 19, 2017. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has stunned central Mexico, killing more than 100 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust.: photo by Miguel Tovar/AP, 19 September 2017

People evacuated from office buildings gather in Reforma Avenue after an earthquake in Mexico City, Tuesday Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017

People evacuated from office buildings gather in Reforma Avenue after an earthquake in Mexico City, Tuesday Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017

An injured man is pulled out of a building that collapsed during an earthquake in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017



An injured man is pulled out of a building that collapsed during an earthquake in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017

The body of woman hangs crushed by a collapsed building in the neighborhood of Roma Norte, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Throughout Mexico City, rescue workers and residents dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings seeking survivors following a 7.1 magnitude quake.: photo by Marco Ugarte/AP, 19 September 2017



The body of woman hangs crushed by a collapsed building in the neighborhood of Roma Norte, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Throughout Mexico City, rescue workers and residents dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings seeking survivors following a 7.1 magnitude quake.: photo by Marco Ugarte/AP, 19 September 2017

Volunteers pick up the rubble from a building that collapsed during an earthquake in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017



Volunteers pick up the rubble from a building that collapsed during an earthquake in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017

A Rohingya Muslim woman, Mumtaz Begum is seen through a veil that covers their shelter as it rains in Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. With a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparking accusations of ethnic cleansing from the United Nations and others, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said her country does not fear international scrutiny and invited diplomats to see some areas for themselves.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 19 September 2017

 

A Rohingya Muslim woman, Mumtaz Begum is seen through a veil that covers their shelter as it rains in Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. With a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparking accusations of ethnic cleansing from the United Nations and others, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said her country does not fear international scrutiny and invited diplomats to see some areas for themselves.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 19 September 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait during distribution of food items near Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. With a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparking accusations of ethnic cleansing from the United Nations and others, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said her country does not fear international scrutiny and invited diplomats to see some areas for themselves.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 19 September 2017



Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait during distribution of food items near Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. With a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparking accusations of ethnic cleansing from the United Nations and others, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said her country does not fear international scrutiny and invited diplomats to see some areas for themselves.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 19 September 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over recently from Myanmar into Bangladesh, carry their belongings and move to find alternate shelter after rainwater inundated their camp near Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks, after security forces and allied mobs retaliated to a series of attacks by Muslim militants last month by burning down thousands of Rohingya homes in the predominantly Buddhist nation.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 19 September 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over recently from Myanmar into Bangladesh, carry their belongings and move to find alternate shelter after rainwater inundated their camp near Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks, after security forces and allied mobs retaliated to a series of attacks by Muslim militants last month by burning down thousands of Rohingya homes in the predominantly Buddhist nation.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 19 September 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over recently from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand in queues to receive food being distributed near Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks, after security forces and allied mobs retaliated to a series of attacks by Muslim militants last month by burning down thousands of Rohingya homes in the predominantly Buddhist nation.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 19 September 2017

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over recently from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand in queues to receive food being distributed near Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks, after security forces and allied mobs retaliated to a series of attacks by Muslim militants last month by burning down thousands of Rohingya homes in the predominantly Buddhist nation.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 19 September 2017

A Hindu devotee performs rituals for the souls of ancestors in the river Ganges today in India. | Photo Rajesh Kumar Singh: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 20 September 2017

A #Rohingya Muslim refugee child walks through Balukhali refugee camp near the Bangladesh town of Gumdhum. Photo Dominique Faget: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 18 September 2017

#Rohingya numbers fleeing Myanmar pass 400,000: UN #AFP The refugee camp of Thyangkhali in Bangladesh. Photo Dominique Faget: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 18 September 2017

#Rohingya numbers fleeing Myanmar pass 400,000: UN #AFP The refugee camp of Thyangkhali in Bangladesh. Photo Dominique Faget: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 18 September 2017

'Hate and fear main scourges of our world': Myanmar's Suu Kyi #AFP @ye_aung_thu: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 19 September 2017

"Myanmar ready to verify refugee status 'at any time': Suu Kyi" Picture taken at Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photo Dominique Faget: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 19 September 2017

Rocks swept by strong waves are seen onto a road in Le Carbet, in Martinique, after it was hit by Hurricane Maria. Photo Lionel Chamoiseau: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 19 September 2017

"Bangladesh army steps up as Rohingya suffer heavy rain" #AFP Photo Dominique Faget: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 20 September 2017

#HurricaneMaria Rain and wind hit a parking lot at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photo @hectorretamal: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 20 September 2017

A race against time in the search for survivors in a flattened building in Mexico City. #mexicoearthquake @YuriYurisky: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 20 September 2017
 

"21 schoolchildren among 248 dead in powerful Mexico quake" #AFP Rescue team look for people at the Enrique Rebsamen elementary school.: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 20 September 2017

GAZA STRIP - A masked youth cadet of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades carries the Hamas' flag at a march in Khan Yunis. Photo @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 September 2017

#France People are seen inside a wrecked house days after St. Martin island sustained damage in the wake of #HurricaneIrma Photo @rarduengo #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 September 2017

#Myanmar / #Bangladesh A Rohingya refugee washes himself at the Jalpatoli refugee camp in the no-man's land area between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Photo @dofaget: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 September 2017

#Myanmar / #Bangladesh Bangladesh to build 14,000 shelters for Rohingya Photo @uz_munir #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 16 September 2017

Mexico City residents are arriving with buckets and bottles of water to pitch in with rescue efforts. Many arrived in their work clothes: image via David Agren @el_reportero, 19 September 2017

A rescue worker holds up a fist, signalling a call for silence at the Enrique Rebsámen school: image via David Agren @el_reportero, 20 September 2017

 

Back at the scene of collapsed 7-story apartment block in La Condesa. Heavily armed soldiers now control access; press three in three out.: image via Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani, 20 September 2017

Spent the afternoon at Amsterdam 107, seven story building totally collapsed. Initial rescue efforts by passers by and neighbours. Chaos.: image via Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani, 19 September 2017

Spent the afternoon at Amsterdam 107, seven story building totally collapsed. Initial rescue efforts by passers by and neighbours. Chaos.: image via Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani, 19 September 2017

Spent the afternoon at Amsterdam 107, seven story building totally collapsed. Initial rescue efforts by passers by and neighbours. Chaos.: image via Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani, 19 September 2017

Search and rescue mission at Amsterdam 107 in La Condesa under expert control tonight, very different from yesterday's chaotic ad hoc effort.: image via Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani, 20 September 2017

Search and rescue mission at Amsterdam 107 in La Condesa under expert control tonight, very different from yesterday's chaotic ad hoc effort.: image via Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani, 20 September 2017

Search and rescue mission at Amsterdam 107 in La Condesa under expert control tonight, very different from yesterday's chaotic ad hoc effort.: image via Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani, 20 September 2017

Search and rescue mission at Amsterdam 107 in La Condesa under expert control tonight, very different from yesterday's chaotic ad hoc effort.: image via Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani, 20 September 2017

Edificó en Monterrey 286, colonia Roma, con múltiples daños tras sismo. Gente muy asustada. Fuga de gas.: image via Arturo Angel @arturoangel20, 19 September 2017

 
Edificó en Monterrey 286, colonia Roma, con múltiples daños tras sismo. Gente muy asustada. Fuga de gas.: image via Arturo Angel @arturoangel20, 19 September 2017
 

Edificó en Monterrey 286, colonia Roma, con múltiples daños tras sismo. Gente muy asustada. Fuga de gas.: image via Arturo Angel @arturoangel20, 19 September 2017

Homes damaged by Hurricane Maria are seen from the air over the island of Dominica: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 20 September 2017

Hurricane Maria slams into Puerto Rico as the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in nearly 90 years: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 20 September 2017

Hurricane Maria slams into Puerto Rico as the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in nearly 90 years: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 20 September 2017

Hurricane Maria slams into Puerto Rico as the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in nearly 90 years: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 20 September 2017

Search and rescue is carried out in Condesa, Mexico City after an earthquake rattles central Mexico Photo Rafael Arias: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 20 September 2017

Rohingya Muslim refugees stand in a clearing in a forest in Gundum, Bangladesh, after crossing the border from Myanmar : photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

 

Rohingya Muslim refugees make their way into Bangladesh after crossing the border from Myanmar: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

Rohingya refugees walk across paddy fields in Gundum, Bangladesh, in the pouring rain at dusk: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

Rohingya refugees walk across paddy fields as dusk falls in Gundum, Bangladesh: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

Rohingya Muslim refugees carrying their belongings make their way into Bangladesh after crossing the border by boat: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

Rohingya refugees herd their cattle along a river bed in Gundum, Bangladesh, after crossing the Myanmar border: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

 

A young Rohingya man carries an elderly woman to shore in Dakhinpara, after the wooden boat they were travelling on from Myanmar crashed and tipped everyone out: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

 

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar jump from a wooden boat as it begins to tip over in Dakhinpara, Bangladesh: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

A young Rohingya man carries an elderly woman to shore in Dakhinpara, after the wooden boat they were travelling on from Myanmar crashed and tipped everyone out: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

An elderly woman collapses on the shore in Dakhinpara, after a wooden boat tipped everyone into the water: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

Rohingya refugee women break down in tears after jumping from a wooden boat that began to tip over as it hit the shore in Dakhinpara: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

 

Rohingya Muslim refugees react upon being reunited with each other in Whaikhyang, Bangladesh, after arriving on a boat from Myanmar: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

Rohingya refugees walk to a camp in Whaikhyang, Bangladesh, after arriving from Myanmar: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

A new Rohingya refugee settlement begins to form on hillsides in Whaikhyang, Bangladesh: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

A new Rohingya refugee settlement begins to form on hillsides in Whaikhyang, Bangladesh: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

Rohingya refugees wait for sacks of rice to be distributed in Whaikhyang, Bangladesh: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

Rohingya refugees jostle for position as they wait for sacks of rice to be distributed in Whaikhyang, Bangladesh: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

 

A child gets squashed as rice is distributed to Rohingya refugees in Gundum, Bangladesh: photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images, 14 September 2017

Boats are partially submerged in the wake of Hurricane Irma, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in Key Largo, Fla.: photo by Wilfredo Lee/AP, 11 September 2017



Boats are partially submerged in the wake of Hurricane Irma, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in Key Largo, Fla.: photo by Wilfredo Lee/AP, 11 September 2017

A house slides into the Atlantic Ocean in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Monday, Sept. 11, 2017.: photo by Gary Lloyd McCullough/The Florida Times-Union via AP, 11 September 2017

 
A house slides into the Atlantic Ocean in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Monday, Sept. 11, 2017.: photo by Gary Lloyd McCullough/The Florida Times-Union via AP, 11 September 2017

#Sri Lanka A Sri Lankan cyclist rides along a street through under heavy rain in Colombo. photo  Lakruwan Wanniarachchi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 September 2017



#Philippines A resident pushes his cart as he wades a flooded main street in Manila. photo Ted Aljibe #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 13 September 2017


 There is a sailboat in the end zone of the Ransom Everglades football field! The view from @SkyforceHD: image via Frank Guzman @fguzmanon7, 11 September 2017


Just when it seemed Hurricane Irma wouldn’t get worse, it did, by @hollybdc: image via Yahoo News @YahooNews,  11 September 2017

 

Holiday Inn Apts. South 17th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 10 July 2016

Holiday Inn Apts. South 17th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 10 July 2016

Holiday Inn Apts. South 17th Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 10 July 2016

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Untitled: photo by Larry Cohen, 17 September 2017

Untitled: photo by Larry Cohen, 17 September 2017

Untitled: photo by Larry Cohen, 17 September 2017

Varanasi: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 28 June 2017



 Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photo by Olivier Vandeginste, 18 April 2010

Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photo by Olivier Vandeginste,18 April 2010
 

Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photo by Olivier Vandeginste, 18 April 2010
 

Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photo by Olivier Vandeginste, 18 April 2010

About 33 kilograms of rhino horns are being burned at the zoo in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A zoo in the Czech Republic has burned its stockpiles of rhino horn worth more than US $ two million on the black market in a protest against a controversial auction of rhino horn in South Africa.: photo by Petr David Josek/AP, 19 September 2017

 

About 33 kilograms of rhino horns are being burned at the zoo in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A zoo in the Czech Republic has burned its stockpiles of rhino horn worth more than US $ two million on the black market in a protest against a controversial auction of rhino horn in South Africa.: photo by Petr David Josek/AP, 19 September 2017

Weather historians may look to 2017 as the start of a frightening new phase of superstorms. (montage: @chrisdolcewx): image via Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus, 20 September 2017

Harvey, Irma, Maria: This is the hurricane season scientists expected … and feared: image via grist @grist, 20 September 2017

 
Two girls play on cots at Humacao Arena refugee center while waiting for the imminent impact of Maria, a Category 5 hurricane that threatens to hit the eastern region of the island with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour, in Humacao, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, September 19, 2017. About 137 citizens arrived at the refuge from different parts of the eastern region of the Island.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 19 September 2017

Two girls play on cots at Humacao Arena refugee center while waiting for the imminent impact of Maria, a Category 5 hurricane that threatens to hit the eastern region of the island with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour, in Humacao, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, September 19, 2017. About 137 citizens arrived at the refuge from different parts of the eastern region of the Island.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 19 September 2017

Charlestown, West Virginia, I think?: photo by Larry Cohen, 16 September 2017

Charlestown, West Virginia, I think?: photo by Larry Cohen, 16 September 2017

Charlestown, West Virginia, I think?: photo by Larry Cohen, 16 September 2017

Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photo by Olivier Vandeginste, 18 April 2010



Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photo by Olivier Vandeginste, 18 April 2010



Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photo by Olivier Vandeginste, 18 April 2010



Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photo by Olivier Vandeginste, 18 April 2010
 


 Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photo by Olivier Vandeginste, 18 April 2010

Untitled: photo by ashnolo, 11 September 2017

Untitled: photo by ashnolo, 11 September 2017

Untitled: photo by ashnolo, 11 September 2017

Warty comb jellyfish (Mnemiopsis), Monterey Aquarium: photo by Bastique, 2 June 2006

Untitled: photo by Larry Cohen, 17 September 2017

Untitled: photo by Larry Cohen, 17 September 2017

Untitled: photo by Larry Cohen, 17 September 2017

View in a departure yard at Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard at twilight, Chicago, Illinois. Brakeman is signaling with a red flare and the train is going by during exposure: photo by Jack Delano, December 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



View in a departure yard at Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard at twilight, Chicago, Illinois: photo by Jack Delano, December 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

#14  [Eptesicus serotinus, Ponte Vasco da Gama, Lisboa]: photo by Bruno Guerra, 9 September 2017

#14  [Eptesicus serotinus, Ponte Vasco da Gama, Lisboa]: photo by Bruno Guerra, 9 September 2017

#14  [Eptesicus serotinus, Ponte Vasco da Gama, Lisboa]: photo by Bruno Guerra, 9 September 2017

#Lightning strikes the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco: image via Karl Mondon @karlmondon, 11 September 2017

#USA Lightning strikes over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Photo @JoshEdelson #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 13 September 2017

Bolts (Lucretius: lightning strikes not to be taken as evidence gods are pissed off)

 Space shuttle Endeavour sitting on Launch Pad 39A as a lightning storm passes prior to the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida: photo by Bill Ingalls, 28 April 2011 (NASA)

For if those who have correctly learned that gods
lead lives free from care still from time to time
wonder how everything can come about,
especially in those events they see
overhead in regions of the aether,
they are carried back to old religion
and accept harsh masters, who, they believe,
in their misery, can do everything,
being ignorant of what can and cannot be,
in short, by what law each thing possesses
limited power, a deep-set boundary stone.
And therefore men lose their way even more,
carried away by their blind reasoning.
If you do not spit such things from your mind,
drive far off thoughts unworthy of the gods,
which have no part in their serenity,
gods’ sacred power, which you have slighted,
will often hurt you -- not that one can harm
the supreme majesty of gods so that,
in its anger, it would resolve to seek
harsh punishment, but because you yourself
may well believe that those serene beings
in their calm peace roll out great waves of rage,
and when you approach temples of the gods
your heart will not be calm. You will lack strength
to contemplate with tranquil peace of mind  
those images borne from divine bodies 
into the minds of men as messengers
of their sacred forms. You can imagine
what kind of life would follow after that.

Titus Lucretius Caro (c.99 BCE-c.55 BCE): De Rerum Natura / On the Nature of Things: "lightning not divine punishment", excerpt from Book Six, translated by Ian Johnston, 2010

Evening lightning, Moscow: photo by Andrew Kuznetsov, 22 June 2010

 

Lightning strike to sea over Miramare di Rimini, Italy: photo by Magica, 2005

 

Lightning flashes as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Strait of Malacca, underway on a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 7th and U.S. 5th Fleet areas of responsibility: photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Colby K. Neal, 8 October 2010 (U.S. Navy)

 

Lightning strikes over 442nd Fighter Wing A-10 Thunderbolt's II during an early morning thunderstorm, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri: photo by Senior Airman Kenny Holston, 20 October 2009 (U.S. Air Force)


 

Lightning strikes behind the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as she steams through the gulf of Thailand: photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jon Husman, 9 April 2009 (U.S. Navy)

 

A Rolling Airframe Missile launcher overlooks the flight deck from the amphibious assault ship USS Saipan's 08 level as lightning announces an approaching storm during flight quarters: photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Steven J. Weber, 11 July 2004 (U.S. Navy)

Lightning strikes in the distance as USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) rests in her homeport, Norfolk, Virginia: photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Matthew D. Williams, 2 May 2007 (U.S. Navy)

Ed Sanders: Healthcare Free To All (It's about time!)

Edward Sanders: Free Healthcare Glyph, 20 September 2017

 
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, walks back into the Capitol after attending a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Senate Republicans begin another push to repeal the Affordable Care Act with the Graham-Cassidy proposal.: photo by Andrew Harnik/AP, 19 September 2017

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, walks back into the Capitol after attending a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Senate Republicans begin another push to repeal the Affordable Care Act with the Graham-Cassidy proposal.: photo by Andrew Harnik/AP, 19 September 2017
 

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally of health care advocates, grassroots activists, and others outside the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Senate Republicans begin another push to repeal the Affordable Care Act with the Graham-Cassidy proposal.: photo by Andrew Harnik/AP, 19 September 2017

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally of health care advocates, grassroots activists, and others outside the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Senate Republicans begin another push to repeal the Affordable Care Act with the Graham-Cassidy proposal.: photo by Andrew Harnik/AP, 19 September 2017

#Spain People walk on the catwalk in front of a cracked bust representing US president Trump during the Madrid Fashion Week. Photo @GABRIELBOUYS: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 17 September 2017