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CityMetric
"CityMetric is an arm of the New Statesman, the British magazine that's been at the forefront of political and cultural journalism since 1913. ... All human life can be found in the city, so the material for a publication such as this is potentially limitless, but we tend to focus our attention on practical and wonkish matters such as infrastructure, economics and the built environment."

Men Overeat to Impress Women
(Eating Heavily: Men Eat More in the Company of Women)
"Notably, men appear to eat larger quantities of both unhealthy (pizza) and healthy (salad) food when in the company of women. More specifically, men eating with women ate 93% more pizza (1.44 more slices) and 86% more salad. Additionally, while women do not eat significantly differently as a function of the sex of their dining partners, women eating with men tended to estimate themselves to have eaten more and reported feeling like they were rushed and overate."

Wem wollte ich hier bloß beeindrucken?

The great sprawl of China: timelapse images reveal 30-year growth of cities. Timelapse satellite iamges show the staggering growth of cities such as Shenzhen, Dongguan and Yiwu, which three decades ago were barely on the map.

Destino (2003) by Walt Disney & Salvador Dalí

"Decasia is a 2002 American found footage film by Bill Morrison, featuring an original score by Michael Gordon. The film is a meditation on old, decaying silent films. It begins and ends with scenes of a dervish and is bookended with old footage showing how film is processed. Nothing was done to accelerate the decomposition of the actual film prints, some of which were copied from the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections." (wikipedia)

see also: imdb

"Emily Garfield creates intricate maps of imaginary places that explore the origins of cities and the function of maps themselves.
Her drawings are inspired by the visual language of maps and the fractal similarity that cities share with biological processes such as the patterns of cells and neurons."

Nachtrag: David Rumsey Map Collection, Map of German Empire 1893.

Agnes Obel: Tiny Desk Concert (npr)