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Photographer and scientist Nathan Myhrvold has developed a camera that captures snowflakes at a microscopic level never seen before The first chill of a winter storm is enough to send most people indoors, but not Nathan Myhrvold. The colder the...

Photographer and scientist Nathan Myhrvold has developed a camera that captures snowflakes at a microscopic level never seen before The first chill of a winter storm is enough to send most people indoors, but not Nathan Myhrvold. The colder the...

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.” -Neil Gaiman

"Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.)" -Neil Gaiman

It’s true: every single snowflake is unique—and nothing shows this better than photographer Alexey Kljatov’s macro snowflake photography. ...

The Snowman cometh: one man’s fight to save skiing | 1843 magazine

The host city of this year’s Winter Games has had to make millions of cubic metres of the white stuff, helped by a Finn who is the world’s top snowmaker.

Can winter sports survive on a warming planet? | 1843 magazine

Tom Hollander made us laugh at the hypocrisy of religion, but also showed us human kindness

Snowflakes can form in either a plate or column shape, but no one understood why – until physicist Kenneth Libbrecht investigated. His theory is the result of two decades making snow in the lab