Human Interest

Cannibal squid, submarine leaks at 450 metres and a poisonous stonefish sting … the producers of David Attenborough’s new series share stories of life and death underwater

Via Andy Dorn

As the world’s biggest cities continue to sprawl, they’ll look to many of the technologies and tactics covered in today’s infographic from Raconteur to work smarter – and not harder – for their inhabitants.

Via Andy Dorn

Via Andy Dorn

Tweet Share on Facebook Share Share Email Pin Pocket Flipboard Do you remember GeoGuessr? It’s the most popular and addictive geo-game out there. There are quite of lot of other cool games but GeoGuessr was always ‘the one to rule them all’. Recently I came across a game that might be similarly addictive. Where in the World is …

Via Lilydale High School, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks

You've seen where airplanes go to die , but what happens to the airports we abandon? They slowly fall to pieces, like the ones in this gallery, looking like sad monuments to a future that never happened.

Via F. Thunus

Marketplace® is your liaison between economics and life. Noted for timely, relevant and accessible coverage of business news across both audio and digital platforms, Marketplace programs are heard by more than 14 million weekly listeners. This makes the Marketplace portfolio the most widely heard business or economic programming in the country.

Via Andy Dorn

Sara Menker quit a career in commodities trading to figure out how the global value chain of agriculture works. Her discoveries have led to some startling predictions: "We could have a tipping point in global food and agriculture if surging demand surpasses the agricultural system's structural capacity to produce food," she says. "People could starve and governments may fall." Menker's models predict that this scenario could happen in a decade -- that the world could be short 214 trillion calories per year by 2027. She offers a vision of this impossible world as well as some steps we can take today to avoid it.

Place is a news and information website designed to shed light on the many issues revolving around land and property rights.

Via Andy Dorn

Travel opens our eyes to the world – but it also means closing them. We ignore the hordes of people like us, all of whom want authentic tapas and a photo for Instagram

Via Andy Dorn

History in Motion makes it easy to create, share, and explore animated
historical maps and scenarios.

Via Catherine Smyth, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks