President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. (White House Flickr stream)
The Atlantic: It’s almost impossible to grasp the scale of the tsunami that slammed into Japan yesterday following the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast near Sendai. The quake was a global-scale event, shifting the axis of the entire earth by four inches. These satellite photos may help you grasp just how much water moved from [...]
NPR: A New Jersey guy named Michael Black did a much better job over the weekend tracking the snow as it piled up on his patio furniture. Check out this “20 hours in 40 seconds” time lapse photo sequence he put together.
The Big Picture has chosen its best photos of the year for 2010. Part one, part two, part three.
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