More than 70 bodies in Austria lorry

Austrian officials now say more than 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway. They originally estimated that between 20 to 50 people died in the vehicle, found near the Hungarian border. Police discovered the decomposing bodies on Thursday morning after being sent to investigate the dumped lorry on the A4 motorway heading towards Vienna.
The local police chief said it appeared those in the vehicle had been dead for one and a half to two days. The victims were probably already dead when the vehicle crossed into Austria from Hungary, authorities said.

 

Why Can’t We Turn Our Eyes Away From the Grotesque and Macabre?

This week's shooting of two news reporters in Roanoke, Virginia, captured once on live television by the slain camerman, and then again by the gunman, who took video as he aimed and fired, adding an extra layer of horror to the violence. Through the killer's lens, we are looking through his gunsights and the effect is profoundly disturbing. And we cannot look away.

In the fall of 1862, Alexander Gardner, scenting a commercial opportunity, took his camera out to a battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and made the photographs that became known as The Dead at Antietam. Displayed to the public, and available for purchase at Mathew Brady’s Manhattan gallery (Gardner worked for Brady at the time), their effect was electrifying. The New York Times wrote that the photographs had a “terrible distinctness” and that they brought the sobering, tragic reality of war home to the north. The emphasis was clearly on the documentary truth of the photographs and how that truth then impacted Northern culture, including not just its art and literature, but its emotions and habits of feeling. Historians from Edmund Wilson to Drew Gilpin Faust have charted the way that the Civil War was a watershed in the transformation in American culture, in everything from the way we write to mourning rituals. Gardner’s photographs, by bringing the war home, clearly played a role in this transformation to what we can loosely call Modernism.  continue

 

Sossusvlei, Namibia

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'Morning Zebras

Ranjan Ramchandani

 

Early morning breakfast or awkward moment?

Nicolas Reusens

 

Nautilus pompilius and Allonautilus scrobiculatus floating together

Photo by Peter Ward

 

Life May Have Spread Through the Galaxy Like a Plague

Finding alien life, be it microbes or Vulcans, would revolutionize our understanding of our place in the universe, not only because we would no longer be alone in the galaxy, but also because it may help us figure out the origins of life on Earth.
Panspermia is the theory that the seeds of life somehow came to our planet from another world.

 

Rising Up

Photograph by Paul Reiffer, National Geographic Your Shot

 

Unrealism, Jocelyn Hobbie

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Jenine Shereos' Delicate Leaves Made Of Human Hair

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The Ugly Shoe Is Back

With a new Star Wars movie on the horizon, the next few months are going to be an overwhelming onslaught of merchandising. But thankfully we’ve already hit rock bottom now that you can buy
 fur-lined Chewbacca Crocs.

 

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The Kids Are Alright

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Asking Questions

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Dismaland: inside Banksy’s dystopian playground

Banksy: Trite, predictable, obvious?

Anti-establishment artist Banksy has been taking a beating on the Interwebz this week after the launch of his latest installation, Dismaland.

 Some of the most scathing (and hilarious) recent critiques of the artist have come from the Twitter account of writer Demi Adejuyigbe (@electrolemon). more

 

Haneda Airport Tilt Shift and Time Lapse

It’s amazing what a change of perspective can do—and in this case, a simple camera perspective trick transforms a huge Tokyo airport into an tiny toys set fit for a playroom.

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How to Age Gracefully - CBC Radio WireTap

CBC Radio WireTap assembled folks of all ages to draw on their experiences and give advice to people who are younger.

If You Get Stuck In An Elevator

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”

― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

 

Fabian Mérelle

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Loaded gun

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Yesterday’s market news.

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Nothing

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Cone of Friendship

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A Dog's Life, Craig Bullock

From spending hours trying to get the best shot of three pugs in a row boat, to capturing the special

bond between Diamond and his heavily tattooed owner Phillip, this pet photographer is prepared to go that extra step to capture just what dogs mean for their owners.