The World That's Coming

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Web development? Workers set up a dust screen on a demolition site in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, where construction sites are required to take measures controlling dust in order to improve air quality. Photograph: Reuters

I love that this looks like something from a Spider-Man story.

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Into the rough. An alligator sits on the 14th fairway during the Zurich Classic at TPC Louisiana. Photograph: Chris Graythen/Getty Images

Sometimes, you’re the golfers. Sometimes, you’re the alligator.

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In this rather surreal image a Greenpeace activist convincingly dressed as a polar bear sits in a police car outside Norwegian oil and gas group Statoil’s office in Moscow, after he was detained during a protest against Statoil’s planned drilling in the Arctic. Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images

I can only hope that some passers-by saw this and were completely convinced that there was a Polar Bear in a police car.

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A derelict house in the Cobridge area of Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire that is being sold by the council for £1, sits next to an occupied house that appears to be well looked after. The derelict homes are being sold by Stoke City Council for the nominal sum and the cost of refurbishing them will initially be met by the council, though the owner will have to pay back that cost over a period of time. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA

First off, that’s an insane concept (The selling a house for a pound thing). Secondly, that pic is weirdly unsettling to me; it’s as if the house on the left is corrupted or demonic, somehow. It’s an evil house.

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Patrick Kane from Livingston, Scotland has been fitted with the new Touch Bionics prosthetic hand. The new i-limb ultra revolution has a powered thumb rotation along with multiple grip patterns, which enables users to perform daily activities more easily than with previous prosthesis. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Ladies and gentleman, that guy has a bionic hand. We are living in science fiction.

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A resident looks down a flooded road in Mount Maunganui, Tauranga, New Zealand. However, New Zealand’s farmers are relieved that a deluge has ended the country’s most widespread drought in 30 years. Photograph: George Novak/AP

A topsy-turvy – but amazingly productive – day, but I admit it; I straight up was so caught up in work that I forgot about doing this until right now, at the end of the day. What can I say? I was flooded. Yes! It’s a visual pun!

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Police officers walk near a crime scene in Watertown after a tense night of police activity that left a university officer dead on campus just days after the Boston Marathon bombings. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

I spent an hour or so last night, just scanning Twitter trying to get news updates on what was happening in Boston, at MIT, at Watertown. It was terrifying, even at a distance; the idea that all of this was happening in the same week and might be disconnected from each other felt like something terrible was happening, something impossible to understand.

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Lithuania’s Ana Koniuchovaite competes during the 5th European Artistic Gymnastic Championships in Moscow. The event takes place from 17 – 21 April. Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images

Always keep moving.