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Disturbing Wall Art in Berlin
Altho' this Daily Mail article, linked at end, has a different main subject - starting with Nicolas Sarkozy's confused recollection of his part in the fall of the Berlin Wall & continuing with general reflections on that event & its 20th Anniversary - there was a background in an accompanying picture that I found striking, disturbing &, ( Read more... ) -
Fractal Animations
www.fractal-recursions.com/anim.html
Some of these have fractal background music too."But on the fun side, fractals can be played with and enjoyed. I am currently playing with a toy called Fractal Explorer 2.02 that allows me to create amazing infinite images.
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Looking at the World in Different Ways
Gridded Population of the World (GPW) page
www.ciesin.org/datasets/gpw/globldem.doc.html
SummaryDemographic information is usually provided on a national basis. But we know that countries are ephemeral phenomena. As an alternate scheme one might use ecological zones rather than nation states. But there is no agreement as to what these zones should ( Read more... ) -
A pale blue dot, seen close
From NASA's Earth Observatory Newsroom: The Blue Marble Next Generation (part of "Visible Earth") is a series of images that show the color of the Earth’s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution (500 meters/pixel) at a global scale.
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