When the news broke that Ford was considering killing the F-150 Lightning, I was hardly surprised. Anyone looking closely can see the cracks in the electric truck market, with heavy incentives and steep depreciation largely the norm. So why aren’t consumers biting on the Lightning? According to one expert, it’s certainly not for lack of interest. “First and foremost, this …
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For Death by Lightning’s Charles Guiteau, the actor calls upon the glorious command of humiliation he perfected as Tom Wambsgans. Photo: Larry Horricks/Netflix Aside from the moment he shoots the guy, Charles Guiteau meets President James A. Garfield precisely twice in Death by Lightning, Netflix’s adaptation of Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the …
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Lightning has long terrified and fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike. For something so relatively common, the precise atmospheric events that give rise to a lightning strike have been shrouded in mystery, but new research is offering some tantalizing clues. A team of engineers and meteorologists believe they’ve cracked the curious case of how lightning forms in the cloudtops, and their …
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