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![North Korean nuke bomb meets Recto
For dystopian data visualization Tuesday, here’s what happens if you drop a 6-kiloton North Korean nuclear bomb right in the heart of Recto in Manila.
A large fireball will instantly fry a portion of a barangay on ground zero.
People on Avenida and Ongpin will then get blown away by an air blast.
Radiation will reach Tutuban, Lawton and Quiapo.
Finally, a heat blast will decimate Mendiola, Lyceum, Intramuros, Tondo, TIP, the Comelec, the Office of the Ombudsman — but will miss Malacañang.
[via Alex Wellerstein’s Nuke Map]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0fi4i5WR51qctkspo1_500.jpg)
North Korean nuke bomb meets Recto
For dystopian data visualization Tuesday, here’s what happens if you drop a 6-kiloton North Korean nuclear bomb right in the heart of Recto in Manila.
A large fireball will instantly fry a portion of a barangay on ground zero.
People on Avenida and Ongpin will then get blown away by an air blast.
Radiation will reach Tutuban, Lawton and Quiapo.
Finally, a heat blast will decimate Mendiola, Lyceum, Intramuros, Tondo, TIP, the Comelec, the Office of the Ombudsman — but will miss Malacañang.
[via Alex Wellerstein’s Nuke Map]
Infographic: Welcome to North Korea!
You would wrap a tree trunk with ropes, and keep punching it. You throw 5,000 punches day and night — do that for a month, the inside of your fist swells up until you can barely curl your fingers.Then you open a tin can and set it up on a stand. You keep punching the sharp part. When your hand turns into mush with blood and pus, you start punching a pile of salt. Repeat it, and your hands become like a stone. You punch the salt so that the salt would prevent the hand from rotting away with the blood. [With the hand trained like this] you can easily break 20 sheets of cement blocks, and you can kill a person with three punches.
But who knew that The Da Vinci Code was a hit in this strictly controlled city? That Céline Dion is a karaoke favourite? Or that the mass performances are not only a tribute to the leadership and motherland, but the way that many young people find partners?
Tania Branigan, The cultural life of North Korea (Guardian)
