Latest news ergonomic design flaw

Blog posts pictures are large horizontal pictures while the thumbnails from the latest news module are squares, this cause pictures to loose relevancy, it would look better to replace the thumbnail with some icons in that case.
http://puu.sh/hQxIt/28b3cbcda8.jpg

But there’s good news;
On the right side thumbnails there’s enough space for 2 lines titles so making those images longer make a lot of sense. They don’t have to be as long as the real ones but making them larger could easily show +65% content instead the current 35%

There’s text bellow the big picture so it would make sense to make that picture flatter give post text more space in the process.

What do you think?