A selection of the winning entries of the National Geographic travel photographer of the year contest.

Rosamunde!

The Nazis were pioneers of musical sadism, although loudspeakers were apparently deployed more to drown out the screams of victims than to torture them.

Why bad ideas refuse to die.

They may have been disproved by science or dismissed as ridiculous, but some foolish beliefs endure. In theory they should wither away – but it’s not that simple.

Skewering “the bastards who decide our lives.”

Oriana Fallaci, brilliant political journalist and terrible islamophobe.

US Declaration of Independence first and final drafts as GitHub diffs (via reddit.com).

Did the UK vote for Brexit because of those annoying cookie notifications?

So whose idea was it in the first place?

Chris Holmes’ Flashback Photobomber Hoodie vs Saif Siddiqui’s Ishu.

How Was Your Day… Palestinian-American Muslim Jew?

Palestinian Arabs and Jews are both so stubborn, I think we might end up taking each other out in the end. Kind of like how people at the bar like to point out the breadth of my conflict of identity, saying things like, “Shouldn’t you blow yourself up then?”

Anglo-European Philosophical Studies.

The lack of diversity in philosophy is blocking its progress.

Bloodsucker with six needles.

Mosquitoes kill more than a million people every year by transmitting diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, making the insects the animal kingdom’s most prolific killer of humans by a wide margin.