Nov 21, 2009
Something Sebastião Salgado saw at work one day

Something Sebastião Salgado saw at work one day

Nov 21, 2009
Good point but bad science — The Times attempts to explain that fans have an impact on referees’ decision making in football games. A more innocuous explanation for the trend here is simply that bigger and more successful clubs have bigger stadia, so the goal difference trend is no big surprise.

Good point but bad science — The Times attempts to explain that fans have an impact on referees’ decision making in football games. A more innocuous explanation for the trend here is simply that bigger and more successful clubs have bigger stadia, so the goal difference trend is no big surprise.

Nov 17, 2009
The US space shuttle Atlantis has taken off from the Kennedy Space Centre to deliver space parts to the International Space Station. Part of the payload includes one million microscopic worms, Caenorhabditis elegans. The worms are to be part of an experiment to help scientists understand why muscle wasting occurs at zero gravity

The US space shuttle Atlantis has taken off from the Kennedy Space Centre to deliver space parts to the International Space Station. Part of the payload includes one million microscopic worms, Caenorhabditis elegans. The worms are to be part of an experiment to help scientists understand why muscle wasting occurs at zero gravity

Nov 13, 2009
Russian time zones

Russian time zones

Nov 6, 2009
Iran’s opposition movement hijack Students’ Day, an officially endorsed celebration of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran with anti-US protests.

Iran’s opposition movement hijack Students’ Day, an officially endorsed celebration of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran with anti-US protests.

Oct 13, 2009
Gordon Banks catches a puppy

Gordon Banks catches a puppy

Oct 2, 2009
Remarkably, a staggering 88% of the Allied military deaths in World War II were from China and the Soviet Union — comparatively, just 2% of Allied deaths were from the United States

Remarkably, a staggering 88% of the Allied military deaths in World War II were from China and the Soviet Union — comparatively, just 2% of Allied deaths were from the United States

Sep 25, 2009
Farah Ahmed Omar, the chief of Somalia’s overworked navy, has not been in sea for 23 years

Farah Ahmed Omar, the chief of Somalia’s overworked navy, has not been in sea for 23 years

Sep 20, 2009
Raptorex kriegsteini, a 3m-long ancestor of the late, great Tyrannosaurus rex

Raptorex kriegsteini, a 3m-long ancestor of the late, great Tyrannosaurus rex

Sep 15, 2009
This is what happens when you apply the current from a van de Graaff generator directly onto film

This is what happens when you apply the current from a van de Graaff generator directly onto film

Sep 9, 2009
Heights of some world leaders

Heights of some world leaders

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