Illustrations of the relative size of the comet on which the ESA probe recently landed by Christopher Becke, a high school physics teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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James writes:
“Our virtual Tesco shop of the same 30 items costs €132.64 in the Republic and €112.02 in the North, a difference of more than 20 per cent. ”
Actually, no. It’s either 18.4% dearer in Republic, or 15.5% cheaper in NI… but definitely not “more than 20 per cent”.
North And South: A tale Of Two Grocery Bills (Conor Pope, Irish Times)
A comprehensive guide to the kinda-likes, nowhere-nears and you’re-having-a-laughs as compiled by the X-Men In Your Face Tumblr (‘All X-Men, All The Time’)
A profanigraphic by Brian O’Doherty.
A graphic by @Amazing_Maps divides the world into five regions, each with the same population of China which, with 1.35 billion people, comprises 20% of the world’s population.
As a bunch of lads, they are, indeed, great.
MORE: A Surprising Map of the World Shows Just How Big China’s Population Is (the Atlantic)
NASA has created this image to show the relative size of a neutron star.
…the crushed core of a star that has exploded as a supernova and packs half a million times the mass of Earth.
It’s smaller than Brooklyn.
