Arctic Sea Ice Loss

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Arctic Sea Ice Loss

Note the catastrophic reduction of ice cover in only 2 years, from 2005 to 2007. Totally unexpected rate of melting.

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Today's pictures & links:
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Alex Ries: imaginative science fiction art
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(image credit: Alex Ries)

Driver's Nightmare

Absolutely wonderful vehicle noticed on reddit. The caption says "Everything's possible":

Soviet Cosmonaut Babies

Mixed fresh links for today:

Most Harrowing Encounters with Tornadoes - [videos]
Landscape Photography Award Winners - [photos]
The Largest Mouth on Earth - [nature]
7 Island Wonders of the World - [interesting]
Abandoned Russian Kid's Camp - [creepy]
Vintage Computer Festival - [tech]
The invisible tank in the works - [wow military]
Book Fore-edge Painting - [cool video]
The Normal Day: full of tricks - [wow video]

Probably the creepiest "Abandoned Place" photograph ever taken:
It's Chernobyl, of course.

Another Traffic Jam to keep you happy about your own commute :)

Artzybasheff's "Neurotica"

This wonderful site has a great gallery of works of incomparable Boris Artzybasheff, who was an illustrator for top-quality magazines in the 50s. His album "Neurotica"shows the extreme states of mind in an entirely new way:

Repressed Hostility: