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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)

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A filthy Cupertino pr0n-off between the shameless 1 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 Apple A5 (SoC) and the utterly wanton 1.3 GHz dual-core Apple-designed ARMv8 64-bit Apple A7 with M7 motion coprocessor.

Ding-dong.

Full geekbench statfest here.

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populationmapA 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)

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It covers 70% of the planet’s surface, but every last drop of fresh water, sea water, ground water, water vapor and water in biological matter would form a sphere (above) just 1,384km in diameter.

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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.

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