Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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Clearing a Russian mountainside of a potentially hazardous buildup of snow gives rise to a potentially hazardous buildup of snow.

At around 1.15, people start recalculating their safe-viewing distance.

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Activists from the militant-feminist wing of the Russian guerilla art group Voina – famous for the spectacular St Petersburg penis bridge graffiti incident – attack female police officers in the Moscow Metro.

With their lips.

Russian police targeted by ‘mass kissing’ stunt (Yahoo News)

Hungarian posters for the original Star Wars trilogy.

Bonus green monsters, pointier light-sabers and AT-ATs like Salvador Dali’s elephants.

Carbon copies of the originals, compared to the Polish, Italian and Russian versions.

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According to the data crunchers at National Geographic, the world’s most typical person (that’s him up there, depicted by 7000 human ‘pixels’, each representing a million people) is a ‘he’. And that’s just one of several surprising factoids in this nifty typographic video.

Part of Nat Geo’s ongoing 7 Billion human population series.

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Last June, an intrepid team of scientists and explorers ventured onto the shore of the world’s largest lava lake –  8 million cubic meters of liquid rock, boiling in the depths of the Nyiragongo Crater on the Rwanda/Congo border in Africa.

To get a sense of scale, look at the figure on the bottom left of the fourth image.

Now check out the full sequence.

Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World – 28 hi-res photos – (Boston Globe)