Editorial Discoveries
484 articles
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Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic Spring Looks Like a Giant Eye Painted Into the Earth
Grand Prismatic is Yellowstone's largest hot spring, with intensely coloured microbial bands surrounding deep blue water. From above, the orange, yellow and green edges make the feature look almost unnaturally graphic. — via nps.gov
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Spin a Globe and Tune Into Live Radio Stations Almost Anywhere on Earth
Radio Garden turns internet radio into geography: rotate a 3D globe, stop on a city and start listening. With tens of thousands of stations represented, it is a wonderfully direct way to stumble into music, news and voices far outside your usual feeds. — via radio.garden
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A Surprisingly Powerful Photoshop-Style Editor Runs Entirely in Your Browser
Photopea can open and edit layered image formats, including PSD files, without requiring a desktop install. It is one of those internet tools that feels implausibly capable for something you can simply open in a browser tab. — via photopea.com
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Lake Baikal Holds About a Fifth of the Planet’s Unfrozen Fresh Water
Siberia's Lake Baikal is around 25 million years old and reaches roughly 1,700 metres at its deepest point. In winter, its vast clear ice can fracture into dramatic blue plates and geometric cracks, turning the world's deepest lake into an entirely different landscape. — via whc.unesco.org
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Monasteries Have Been Balanced on Meteora’s Stone Towers for Centuries
Meteora's monasteries sit on immense sandstone pillars that rise hundreds of metres above the surrounding plain. What makes the site extraordinary is the combination of geology and human determination: monumental buildings occupying places that appear almost inaccessible. — via whc.unesco.org
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Neal.fun Is a Collection of Web Experiments You Can Lose an Hour Exploring
Neal Agarwal's site turns odd questions and ideas into tiny interactive experiences rather than articles. The appeal is the range: playful simulations, scale comparisons, games and internet curiosities that reward clicking without demanding an account. — via neal.fun
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Chile’s Moon Valley Looks Like a Landscape Borrowed From Another Planet
Valle de la Luna in the Atacama is a landscape of salt, rock ridges, dunes and sculpted depressions with almost no vegetation. Low sunlight exaggerates the relief until the desert really does resemble a planetary surface. — via chile.travel
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Take a Virtual Drive Through Cities Around the World While Listening to Local Radio
Drive & Listen pairs road footage from cities around the world with live or local radio streams. The combination is wonderfully simple: choose a city, start moving and get a tiny impression of what an ordinary drive there feels like. — via driveandlisten.app
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Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes Flow Through a Chain of Turquoise Pools and Waterfalls
Plitvice Lakes is shaped by natural tufa barriers that continually build and redirect water between lakes, cascades and forest. The result is not one viewpoint but an entire landscape of connected blue-green water. — via np-plitvicka-jezera.hr
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This Live Map Lets You See the World’s Ships Moving Around the Oceans
MarineTraffic visualises vessel positions using AIS and related tracking data, turning global shipping into an explorable live map. It makes container routes, ferries, tankers and port activity understandable at a glance. — via marinetraffic.com