It looks like brushstrokes – it could almost be a Turner – but this is actually nature at its most dramatic. This snapshot from the European Space Agency’s MERIS satellite shows the Tibesti mountains that straddle northern Chad and southern Libya – though a picture like this makes it easy to forget that borders exist. More »
This image is so unreal that it feels like a sci-fi illustration more than a photo. It looks like part of a spaceship—perhaps some structure from an Imperial Star Destroyer—instead of the 1,000-ton deckhouse of the new destroyer USS Zumwalt. More »
Here’s a rare sight: four out of the ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers—the largest warships ever built—plus an Enterprise-class carrier docked together. They are resting at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, which coincidentally is the largest naval base in the world. Look at all that engineering and firepower. And it’s only half of the Nimitz fleet! More »
This is not a mile high club you want to be a part of. On a flight from Reykjavik, Iceland to JFK yesterday, a drunken passenger got so unruly that the flight crew had to restrain him. To his seat. With duct tape and zip ties. More »
Screw Rudolph, the reindeers and that stupid red flying sled. At the Hill Air Force Base, in Utah, Santa Claus actually arrives on a goddamn F-16. More »
Penguin publishing just rereleased five of George Orwell’s best works—1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, and Politics and the English Language—as “Great Orwell” editions. More »
Sometimes I think Dubai exists in its very own dimension, an alternative over-the-top world where everything has to be the best of the best. This amazing photograph by Gerald Donovan is proof: the biggest and tallest firework show in the world, shot on New Year’s Eve 2013 at the Burj Khalifa, the highest man-made structure in the world at 2,722 feet (829.8 meters). More »
I used to always pick the aisle seat whenever I flew on a plane. It’s not like I’m ridiculously tall or anything, I just enjoyed the freedom of one side (preferably my right) and the easy access to the bathroom (of which I rarely use). But on a recent trip to New York, I traded my aisle seat for a window seat. And after seeing New York from above, man, I don’t think I’ll ever sit in an aisle seat again. More »
Our daily does of satellite imagery through services like Google Maps have made looking down at Earth seem rather hum-drum at times. But there are still magical and majestic sites to be hold, as seen in this selection from 2012. More »
I don’t buy this whole Santa lives in the North Pole thing. Obviously—looking at this picture of this incredible ice structure by Sander Klaassen—the real Santa must live in Pleneau Bay, Antarctica. The fake Coca-Cola one is the one who lives in the North Pole, with the polar beards. [National Geographic] More »
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