Rabu, 04 Oktober 2017

Snowflake Savant

An obsessive Vermont naturalist armed with a camera and microscope revealed that every feathery crystal of snow is a unique world of wonder. When subfreezing temperatures and a snowstorm descended on the Bentley family’s small Vermont farm on January 15, 1885, 19-year-old Wilson Bentley headed straight for an unheated woodshed and got to work. As …

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