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Video: Modern Day Robin Hood
A group of friends from Sheffield, UK who call themselves “Modern Day Robin Hood” created quite some stir-up when they moved over to New York last week and handed out cash on the streets. While people did receive the stunt very positive and enjoyed the humor of the “mad English men” mainstream press was up in arms…
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Best News Picture Galleries on the Web
You can read your daily news online or via RSS but there is another way to get informed (and get your daily dose of news pictures). Major media agencies and news papers also provide daily or weekly updated news in pictures. Quite a few of them have even added spoken comments to the pictures so you get some background information together with the images. And often you get multiple images for a news story where otherwise only one of these pictures is included with a longer text. The services we included in the list below are the largest providers and often the source for other news and media sites. They cover news on a global level but some have also regional information. We have broken the list down into the following four sections (Daily picture sources, Weekly picture sources, Yearly picture awards and reviews, Historic and all time famous pictures)…
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Africa: The size of a continent
Many identify Africa with less-developed countries, disease and war ridden…
…but what almost all forget is the sheer size of that continent that will never allow one-size-fits all approaches. The map below provides a better understanding of the size by overlaying it with some of the largest countries in the world and whole continents…
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Worldprocessor: Data as Globes
Ingo Guenther’s “Worldprocessor” project that started in 1988 has created some of the most outstanding globes. Currently there are more then 300 different designs visualizing world statistical data as globes. This project has been going for quite some time but the online catalog with hundreds of globes is still worth a look. We have selected [...]
Granta: How (not) to write about Africa
UK magazine Granta has a great article online describing how many writers are exploiting cliches and stereotypes when writing about Africa. It is titled How to write about Africa and written by celebrated Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina. Worth reading Some quotes:…Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include [...]
UN: 24-October-2006 United Nations day
Today is United Nations day and it is the last for Kofi Annan. Let’s see what the next 365 days will bring for this planet… …For the tenth and last time as Secretary-General, I offer friends and colleagues around the world my best wishes on United Nations Day. I have spent almost my whole professional [...]
