Jack Cook and Howard Perlman’s illustration of all the water on Earth as a single sphere showed up on Buzzfeed a week ago, but it just seemed to small to be accurate. Turns out, it is.

Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth’s surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth’s radius. The above illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers, less than half the radius of the Earth’s Moon, but slightly larger than Saturn’s moon Rhea which, like many moons in our outer Solar System, is mostly water ice.

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Chalk joins cardboard, flowers, and cameras on the growing list of unconventional YouTube weaponry.

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Prior to World War II, Sir Nicholas Winton (who is still alive at the age of 103) single-handedly started an organization that was responsible for the rescue of 669 Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The operation, which would be later known as Czech Kindertransport, gave the children safe passage into Britain and found homes for them, earning him the moniker “The British Schindler.”

In this clip from the 1988 BBC program “That’s Life,” Winton was reunited with a group of those he saved in one of the more touching videos I’ve seen this week.

Don’t worry, we all know you just have something in your eyes.

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Kidult responds to Marc Jacobs’ response to Kidult.

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The tale of how Marc Jacobs turned graffiti into product.

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Ubisoft has released Ghost Recon Alpha, a prequel film to Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier that features some of the not-so-far-off military tech that will be available to players in game.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Alpha the movie invites you into the future of war with the US Armed Forces’s point of spear. Inserted deep behind enemy lines, the Ghosts must strike swiftly to eliminate one of the world’s most feared war criminals, and vanish as they came.

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