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Stunning videos, lives destroyed by nature, and more, in today's links.

• Some of these photographs of natural disasters are breath-taking, although you can't really look at them without feeling guilty for marveling. Warning -- some of them are pretty upsetting.
• If you are any kind of a cheeseball, watching this list of top space videos may be the most fun thing you do all week.
• And in case you wanted more reasons to be reminded how small of a slice of time and space we inhabit, here are the top ten archaeology finds of the year.
• From Nanobamas to purple tomatoes, from a heart stripped bare to a bare flat filled with crystals, here's the year in science in pictures.