Weekly Filet #164: Your Life Is Passing, One Week at a Time. And more.
Truth be told, Barcelona is a little too sunny and too nice to write a proper introduction. So, without further ado, my five recommendations for this week.
This is probably the most depressing and at the same time most motivating visualisation I've seen for a long time. What you're looking at is the (slightly above) average human lifespan in weeks, ready to be ticked off. So little time, then again: so much to do with it.
→ A 90-Year-Human Life in Weeks (Explore)
A notable cri de coeur from a man who fought in World War II – for an ideal of Europe we're losing sight of.
→ Is Cameron's Britain what we fought for in the war? (The Guardian)
An excellent introduction to football (or, as the Americans insist on calling it: soccer) for people not interested in it. Don't care about football? Give it a try. You won't be able to avoid it in the coming weeks anyway.
→ How to Watch the World Cup Like a True Soccer Nerd (Grantland)
The most dramatic news of the week: Iraq is being taken over by a group that Al-Qaeda once deemed too radical. A bit of context.
→ ISIL: Rising power in Iraq and Syria (Al Jazeera)
Beautiful images of Icelandic landscapes, captured in infrared.
→ Iceland Infrared: Stark Photographs of Icelandic Landscapes by Andy Lee (This Is Colossal)