Living on the Most Crowded Island on Earth

Two hours off the coast of Colombia is a small island home to over 1,200 people. As the entirety of Santa Cruz del Islote only spans the length of two soccer fields, residents live in close quarters, making the island four times as dense as the borough of Manhattan. Despite the circumstances, the community makes the most of their limited surface area, packing in a school, two shops and one restaurant. Only 150 years ago, the island was uninhabited; today, generations of families are proud to call Santa Cruz del Islote home.

[Great Big Story]


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In Space No One Can Hear You Scream: Original Alien Movie gets a New Movie Trailer

Sure, the movie might date back to in 1979, but somehow, Century FOX has decided to create a whole new trailer that has the look and feel of something released today to promote the blu-ray editions of the movie.

The time is the future. The crew aboard a massive commercial space vehicle is enroute to earth with a load of extraterrestrial ore when they are sidetracked by mysterious signals from a nearby planet. The signals seem to be calls for help and when the space ship arrives they find a ruined, moldering spacecraft and within it egg-like living organisms.

–Alien (Blu-Ray)
–Alien 35th Anniversary Edition, Director’s Cut Blu-ray

They also offered the same treatment to Aliens:

Can you Solve the Buried Treasure Riddle?

After a massive storm tears through the Hex Archipelago, you find five grizzled survivors in the water. As an act of gratitude for saving them, they reveal a secret – the island they were just on holds some buried treasure. But when the sailors try to describe the island, something seems off. Can you find the booty despite their strange instructions? Daniel Griller shows how.

[TED Ed]