“Monument aux Martyrs” by prise par un touriste inconu – algerie. Licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons. As part of my long term project to write a short article on a...
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Slow motion videos of literally anything are cool, the internet seems to be addicted to them too. I’d happily watch a slow motion video of you scratching your arse and be transfixed for half...
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Source: bigweasel, Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic licence. I guess it’s not the greatest of accolades is it? – The smallest desert in the world. What is impressive is that...
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I love it when I come across an image of an animal that I don’t even recognise, and that’s what happened here with the wonderfully cute Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo. It’s named after Walter Goodfellow (1866–1953)...
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Simon Stålenhag, a talented Swedish artist, paints images of a fading science fiction future. He digitally creates his masterpieces with a Wacom tablet and pen. They aren’t post-apocalyptic, they seem to be pre-apocalytpic, humanity...
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Mikhail Nesterov, in Russian – Михаи́л Не́стеров – was born in 1862 into humble circumstances. As the son of a merchant Nesterov struggled to find joy in his father’s line of work. The life of...
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This is the second entry in my project to write a short article on one impressively beautiful area or structure within every country of the world. Recently I wrote about Afghanistan’s Minaret of Jam,...
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I’ve decided to write a short article on an impressive monument, area or natural wonder from every country in the world. I’m starting with Afghanistan, because there’s nothing quite like an alphabetised list of...
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Everyone likes a good practical joke (as long as it isn’t carried out on you and no one dies or ends up in a coma), the Germans call it schadenfreude – ‘pleasure derived from...
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Here’s your final installment of the Global Selfie Project where we stare unapologetically at people from across the globe. I wanted to collect a selfie taken in every country, I’ve almost managed it… I’ve tried...
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