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In Diego Brambilla’s series, My First Dream, an astronaut wanders the solar system in isolation. The photographer uses sweeping landscapes like the desert to act as alien terrain. He built a spacesuit using bits and pieces found on eBay, using a Chinese helmet from the 1960s and a diving dry suit. Plastic pipes from a plumbing supply story and ordinary black patches complete the look. 
“What I love about science fiction is that we can create a world that doesn’t exist at all,” he says, “Our ideas of other planets are made mostly from movies and literature.”

Check out more photos and read about Brambilla’s project.

Source: Wired

Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakia children from Nazi death camps, and brought them to the safety of Great Britain between the years 1938-1939.

After the war, his efforts remained unknown. But in 1988, Winton’s wife Grete found the scrapbook from 1939 with the complete list of children’s names and photos. Sir Nicholas Winton is sitting in an audience of Jewish Czechoslovakian people who he saved 50 years before.

This post gained more than 100,000 notes in over a day. One of the most powerful things I ever posted. 

Yay for a million notes!

Although I mentioned a masterpost of creepy wikipedia articles on my blog, here are the top 10 that truly creeped or scared me to my core:

  1. Phantom time hypothesis: One of those that make you hit an existential crisis. The Phantom Time Hypothesis alleges that the period of time between 614 and 911 A.D. was added in retroactively, and that events that happened during this time occurred at different points in history, or didn’t happen at all.
  2. List of unexplained sounds: A complete compilations of creepy noises that stemmed from who know where. They are completely unidentified. 
  3. List of unexplained disappearances: A complete list of publicly unexplained human disappearances, and of people whose current whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated, as well as a few cases of people whose disappearances were notable and remained mysterious for a long time, but were eventually explained.
  4. Kelly-Hopskinsville encounter: This was a a series of incidents of alleged close encounters with extraterrestrial beings. If aliens do exist, they sure are freaky. 
  5. Shadow personEvery culture around the world has some version of a “shadow person” in their mythology. In some form or other, these visitors in the night are apparently a universal fear.
  6. Black-eyed children: A complete description of an urban legend of supposed paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes.
  7. Armin Meiwes: Armin Meiwes was a German cannibal who found someone who voluntarily let him kill and eat him on the internet. Before the victim died, Meiwes severed the guy’s penis and they shared it.Meiwes has since become a vegetarian but claims there are “about 800” cannibals in Germany.
  8. List of haunted locations around the world: A complete list of reportedly haunted locations throughout the world, that are haunted by ghosts or other supernatural beings, including demons. 
  9. Murder of Junko Furuta:  The Wikipedia article basically tells the real life story of a 17 year old Japanese girl who was abducted and held for over 40 days while being tortured. This made me loose my faith in humanity. 
  10. Murder of Shanda Sharer: Another one of those that will make you loose your faith in humanity.Four girls tortured and killed a 12-year-old girl, eventually burning her alive. They then went to McDonald’s and ate breakfast, joking about how she looked like one of the sausages they were eating.

You may also like my masterpost of creepy places:

The big day is finally here — after tonight’s Super Tuesday results, there will be a much clearer picture of how both the Republican and Democratic races could shake out. Will Donald Trump continue his dominance? Can Marco Rubio catch up? Can Ted Cruz rebound? Will Hillary Clinton roll through the South? Can Bernie Sanders bounce back after a devastating South Carolina loss?

More than a dozen states are voting today — some in primaries, some in caucuses whose results may not be known for quite a while. A total of 1,460 delegates are up for grabs — 865 for Democrats, 595 for Republicans.

And remember — margins matter in these contests. They’re not winner-take-all, and closer finishes impact the number of delegates awarded on a state-by-state basis.

Graphic: Alyson Hurt/NPR

Source: NPR

Defender arcade game - this may very well be my favorite video game of all time. I’m not sure…