‘Spy vs. Spy’ Was The Subversive Brainchild of An Exiled Cuban Illustrator

One day a Cuban illustrator walked unannounced into the MAD Magazine offices, and the rest is history. By Eric Grundhauser.
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The Chimney Map

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Ghostly graffiti of a notorious university prison.

Heidelberg is a university town, the oldest and most prestigious in Germany, counting Victor Hugo and Mark Twain among its alumni, as well at least 56 Nobel prize-winners over the years. As brilliant as their students were however, if they misbehaved, the university had the jurisdiction to incarcerate them in their own dungeons and sentences could run on from days to weeks.
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Attack of the giant spider. Watch this optical illusion mural come to life.

A nightmarishly oversized spider emerges from a gaping hole in a wall in this anamorphic optical illusion mural by French street artist Denys Pasco, better known as Densoner. Known for his highly detailed graffiti style as well as oversized murals.
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Murals of Greek gods rendered against a chaotic backdrop of graffiti by Pichi & Avo.

Since first collaborating in 2007, Spanish street art duo Pichi & Avo (previously) have created an intriguing blend of traditional graffiti and renderings of mythological figures influenced by ancient Greek sculpture. The precision, shading, and use of color is all that more impressive consideri
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Why can't Britain get value for money from government?

Britain has 43 independent police forces. They spend 13 per cent of their income, £1.7 billion, on buying goods. Yet the price they pay for standard items varies hugely: handcuffs cost from £14 to £43, boots from £25 to £114, high-visibility jackets from as little as £20 to as much as £100.
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Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet

The best mouse I’ve ever met lives in Akademgorodok, a Siberian city about an hour’s drive from Novosibirsk. The mouse is not alive. It’s a 2-foot statue that stands watch over a genetic engineering laboratory. Frozen in time, the mouse wears glasses and a lab coat, using a pair of knitting needles to stitch together strands of DNA.
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