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Top 10 questions  

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 Cause of  lightning

2

 Where lightning hits

3

 Hurricane spin

4

 How hot is lightning

5

 Jupiter's surface

6

 How rainbows form

7

 Ball lightning

8

 Hurricane energy

9

 Lightning hits a tornado
10  Orange night skies

Current Column:  A saintly light

st elmo's fire

Why would a lightning-struck tree glow after being hit? It is not on fire and does not give off heat, but glows. 

It was a dark and stormy night.  Chris emails he was walking in the woods  "a little after a thunderstorm" when he noticed the tree.  The tree, shattered by an earlier lightning stroke, stabbed the night like a broken pike.  An eerie glow extended ... Click to continue

 
On living wild... The mind lets go of its moorings, one by one, and begins to lose you.
 --"Walking below zero you tell yourself" by Debra Allbery

Fractal image: Ken Musgrave


A few years ago, I took leave from computer engineering to canoe down Canada's largest river, the Mackenzie. For forty-six days my husband and I paddled alone a thousand miles through remote Canadian wilderness to the Arctic Ocean. Now I write a question and answer column (WonderQuest) for USA Today and New Mexican newspapers.

Honors and Awards:

  • Private Pilot's license
  • The National Registry of Who's Who (2002) lists my accomplishments.
  • Member of National Association of Science Writers
  • MS in Mathematics, UNM
  • BS in Computer Engineering, UNM
  • Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society
  • Dean's List while attending Harvard University

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