The visualization [3] below doesn't need much explanation. It's a wonderfully simple illustration of how the 33 miners trapped [4] in a Chilean copper-gold mine have managed to survive over the past couple months: by living off deliveries in packages about the size of a Campbell's soup can.

Everything they've consumed, from protein shakes and vitamins to Bibles and music on an iPod, has been winched down a borehole in 3.19-inch canisters called "palomas." Newsweek [3] has the full deets:

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It's a touching way to repackage a story that could easily get lost in the news cycle. Readers are quick to tire of disaster narratives (the media pundits like to call it "compassion fatigue [6].") Sometimes, though, it's just a matter of presenting the information in a compelling new way, as Newsweek did here.

[Via Newsweek [3]]