7 Gigapixel image over London suburbs

Here's a large (just under 7 gigapixel) image
taken from the top of Tolworth tower in
Tolworth, SW Greater London," pipes wjh31.
"It's comprised of approx 700 shots with Canon
500D and 55-250IS @250, 400mm equiv." You can
zoom in from miles away to spy on people's
gardens like a voyeuristic eagle. Crazy that
you can now pull this amazing stuff off with a
sub-£500 camera.

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Quality counts: The 5 most viewed images. etc etc

Darwin Tunes a test- tube for cultural evolution

Join our unique experiment, and be the first to hear music as it evolves, right between your ears!
The organic world – animals, plants, viruses – is the product of Darwinian evolution by natural selection. Natural selection expresses the idea that organisms (more accurately their genes) vary and that variability has consequences. Some variants are bad and go extinct; others are good and do exceptionally well. This process, repeated for two billion years, has given us the splendours of life on earth.
It has also given us the splendours of human culture. This may seem like a bold claim, but it is self-evidently true. People copy cultural artefacts – words, songs, images, ideas – all the time from other people. Copying is imperfect: there is "mutation". Some cultural mutants do better than others: most die but some are immensely successful; they catch on; they become hits. This process, repeated for fifty thousand years, has given us all that we make, say and do; it is the process of "cultural evolution".
However, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. For example, how important is human creative input compared to audience selection? Is progress smooth and continuous or step-like? We set up DarwinTunes as a test-bed for the evolution of music, the oldest and most widespread form of culture; and, thanks to your participation these questions will soon be answered..

And the product of 500 generations of crowd-driven music evolution

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A Moment in Time — thousands of pictures from around the world all taken at 15:00 UTC May 2

Interesting map that clearly shows the effects of the recent rise in unemployment USA

Marian Koshland Science Museum