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I Love PeopleBenjamin Jenks hitchhiked 5,000 miles across America and compressed the 930 people he met into 162 seconds. Best thing since Move, Learn, Eat and the Holstee LifeCycle film

On the 28th birthday of NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite, an astounding timelapse of the explosive growth of Las Vegas between 1972 and 2012, captured in satellite images.

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Amazing animation from NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio, showing our view of the Moon over the entire year of 2012 with time resolution of one hour.

The summer melt of Arctic ice, dubbed “the greatest seasonal change on the planet,” opens up nearly three million square miles of ocean and land. An excerpt from BBC’s Nature’s Great Events series.