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online highlights What’s Online? Nature’s Lightning Show Text and Photos Jacci Ingham Utterly enthralled by the enigmatic nature of dramatic thunderstorms, Jacci Ingham, a photographer from Darwin, sets off on a mission to record these beautiful and frightening spectacles in all their glory. www.asiangeo.com/nature/natures-lightning-show/ Asia’s Sweet Success: The History of Ice Cream in Asia Text Selina Tan The concept of a frozen dessert is one that goes back thousands of years. By pouring a mixture of salt and ice over containers of liquid syrup, the Chinese were creating a rudimentary form of ice cream as long ago as 2000 BC. The resulting frozen product was served as a dessert to China’s elite. www.asiangeo.com/culture/asias-sweet-success-the- history-of-ice-cream-in-asia/ Education and Hope: Inheriting a Future Text Karin Ronnow Photos Erik Petersen Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan – As the teacher led his ninth-grade students through a Dari lesson one summer morning, everyone in the classroom heard and felt the rumbling. The students and teacher looked up, then out of the windows facing the Hindu Kush mountains behind DeGhulaman High School. Earthquake? Not exactly. www.asiangeo.com/on-assignment/education-and-hope-inheriting-a-future/ 8