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        "description": "<p>November 19, 2012\u2014Using one of the world's fastest cameras, a National Geographic explorer attempts the nearly impossible\u2014photographing the birth of a lightning bolt.</p>", 
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                    "name": "Learn More About Tim Samaras, Severe-Storms Researcher"
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                    "url": "http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/chasing-lightning/peter-photography", 
                    "name": "See Pictures From <i>National Geographic</i> Magazine: \"Chasing Lightning\""
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        "transcript": "<p>How do you capture the birth of a lightning bolt?....with one of the world's fastest cameras!</p><p>I'm Lucie McNeil and this is National Geographic On Assignment---your link to thousands of Nat Geo Explorers around the globe.</p><p>Today, we're off to the American Midwest....</p><p>National Geographic's Tim Samaras is hoping to unlock the secrets of how lightning is formed, and shooting its birth may provide answers.</p><p>High speed cameras can shoot up to thousands of frames per second. But even these cameras miss the instant of a lightning bolt's creation.</p><p>Tim has one of the only cameras<a name=\"_GoBack\"></a> in the world fast enough to capture this fleeting event. It can shoot ONE MILLION frames per second.</p><p>But at that speed, the timing has to be perfect and a lightning strike is hard to predict.</p><p>To capture that moment, Tim will need another very elusive and unpredictable thing: luck.</p><p>That's National Geographic On Assignment---your link to our Explorers.</p>", 
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