Greenpeace damages Nazca Lines in activist stunt
08 May 2017 Leave a comment
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UPDATE:
Greenpeace activists at the stunt
Greenpeace has now named four of the alleged Nazca Lines vandals involved in trespassing and damaging the UNESCO World Heritage site.
Wolfgang Sadik, Martin Kaiser, Isis Wiedeman, and Mauro Fernandez have all been named as present at the site’s tampering and are involved with Greenpeace Germany.
Mr Fernandez believed the group’s actions in Nazca ‘were wrong’.
activist Mauro Fernandez
“I want to express my apologies to the Peruvian people and my deep and sincere regret for having been the voice of this mistaken activity,” he said.
As part of a deal to come forth with the above names, Greenpeace has urged Peruvian prosecutors to drop charges against two journalists present to cover the stunt, associated press photographer Rodrigo Abd and Reuters video journalist Herbet Villarraga.
journalist Rodrigo Abd
Both sides of this dispute are acting hesitantly in the event’s proceedings as Peru’s officials are still yet…
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Churchill announcing the end of World War II in Europe
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Visualising the numbers – The Fallen of World War II
08 May 2017 Leave a comment
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Today and tomorrow we remember the end of the war in Europe 72 years ago. I think this video provides a fitting illustration of what that war meant to nations and families around the world – and why we commemorate its end.
It’s also an excellent example of what can be done with data visualisation. I don’t think I have seen a better presentation of the reality of that war – of the numbers of soldiers and civilians killed in the different countries during that war.
Something to aspire to for anyone involved in data presentation.
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Massive asteroid impact crater in Falklands linked with Great Dying mass extinction
07 May 2017 Leave a comment
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Credit: worldatlas.com
Something new for geologists to get their teeth into.
The Falkland Islands may be home to one of the world’s largest craters, reports the IB Times. A new analysis has revealed it has many characteristics of an asteroid impact and may date back to the ‘Great Dying’ extinction event.
About 200 similar large craters have been discovered so far on Earth but there are many other examples of them on other planets including on Venus, Mercury and Mars.
The Falkland Islands structure, which is described in detail in the journal Terra Nova, has a diameter measuring approximately 250 kilometres (150 miles). If it turns out to be an impact crater, this size would make it one of Earth’s largest – comparable to the famous Chicxulub crater discovered in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico nearly four decades ago.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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