The Curiosity Index (15.02.2017)

15 February 2017

A little late with this today – that’s just the way it goes sometimes.

Winners of the 2017 World Press Photo Contest

These photos tell a compelling story of our world and some are definitely not for the faint-hearted.

The 2017 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest

These photos tell the story of a completely different world. The underwater one.

Sweden joins race for carbon neutrality

And why they could win it…

The unexpected Christian century

This is from a while back but I think few trends would be as compelling or as world-changing as this one.

No scholar—or as far as that goes, not even a madman—predicted that at the end of the twentieth century Christianity would not be recognized even as a cultural factor in Europe by the nations that today compose the European Union.

No prognosticator predicted that more Christians would be worshiping each Sunday in China than in Europe or North America.