I'm (finally) back in the Blue Tower, we had more delays on our return flight yesterday than on our way out, there was some severe weather in our path that was the cause, and as we passed over it I got to see a lightning storm from above for the first time, which is an extraordinary sight. This lead to a weird coincidence moment. The woman sitting next to us asked me if I knew whether lightning ever shot upward, and I told her I didn't know, and then not too long after, right there in the magazine I was reading (Maxim... you know for the articles), the answer popped up, as they had an explanation of how lighting works, including word that it only travels toward the ground. Chances are someone has a more complete explanation that may indeed contradict that fact from the simplified magazine piece, but I just thought that it was a neat moment of getting the answer to a question out of the not-so-clear not-so-blue sky.

Story of the Day: Oregon Auto Dealer Agrees To Pay Fines after they "sold seven cars in one month to a man with Alzheimer's."
Bonus Story: Military honour for penguin (Ananova). Thanks Andrew Arace.