Engines of Destruction: The Science of Hurricanes!
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[MUSIC]According to legend, when Kublai Khan’s army set sail to conquer Japan, a powerfultyphoon, a Pacific tropical cyclone, arrived without warning, destroying Khan’s fleetand saving Japan.When the Mongols returned a few years later with an even bigger army, another typhoonshowed up and turned the invading fleet into driftwood.Thinking their emperor had summoned the storms to rescue them, the Japanese named these typhoons“divine wind”, or kamikaze.Native cultures in the Caribbean and Central America, like the Taíno and Maya, told storiesof Huracán, a god who brought wind and storms.Their ancient artifacts tell us they’d deduced these storms’ spiral shapes long ago, somethingWestern scientists wouldn’t figure out until 1831.Tropical cyclones are cal...
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[MUSIC]According to legend, when Kublai Khan’s army set sail to conquer Japan, a powerfultyphoon, a Pacific tropical cyclone, arrived without warning, destroying Khan’s fleetand saving Japan.When the Mongols returned a few years later with an even bigger army, another typhoonshowed up and turned the invading fleet into driftwood.Thinking their emperor had summoned the storms to rescue them, the Japanese named these typhoons“divine wind”, or kamikaze.Native cultures in the Caribbean and Central America, like the Taíno and Maya, told storiesof Huracán, a god who brought wind and storms.Their ancient artifacts tell us they’d deduced these storms’ spiral shapes long ago, somethingWestern scientists wouldn’t figure out until 1831.Tropical cyclones are cal...
