Hyperspace to Berlin, Watch Metropolis Live

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Restored ‘Metropolis’ to Stream Live on Friday

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Classic film buffs take note. Roger Ebert writes: The eagerly awaited restored version of Fritz Lang‘s silent classic “Metropolis” will steam live on the internet on Friday Feb. 12. In America, it can be see in the afternoon. It’s said that nearly an hour of footage, long thought to be lost, has been added. The footage was [...]

A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything

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This imaginative bit was a student’s final project for an art course. The flipbook, made entirely out of biro pens, was created with 2100 pages of drawings and took about 3 weeks to develop. Needless to say, the student got an A. Thanks to @kirstinbutler for flagging this one.

10,000 Galaxies in 3D

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In 2004, the Hubble Space Telescope captured 10,000 galaxies in an image that’s now called the Ultra Deep Field. It’s our deepest look into the universe. The video above animates the Deep Field image and puts it into 3D. No need to read more. Just watch.

Why You Share

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A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania spent a good six months studying The New York Times list of most-e-mailed articles, hoping to figure out what articles get shared, and why. And here’s what they essentially found: People preferred e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes, and they liked to send long [...]

Bob Dylan at the White House

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Once they were part of the counter culture. Now they’re getting the red carpet treatment in the establishment. (Not that I have a problem with that!) Last night, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and others performed in the East Room of the White House. It was all part a program called “A Celebration of Music from [...]

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness

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Since the late 1990′s, Alain de Botton has been breaking down difficult philosophical and literary ideas and seeing how they apply to people’s everyday lives. He did this with his 1997 bestseller, How Proust Can Change Your Life. And he took things a step further with his television series called Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. The episode [...]

Time Travel with Google Earth

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Google Earth’s historical imagery feature now includes aerial footage of the aftermath of World War II, allowing users to comprehend the extent of post-war destruction by comparing photos of cities as they are today to those of bombed out cities immediately after the war. Here’s Warsaw in 1935, devastated in 1943, and restored today. You [...]

What Are You Staring At?

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You stare. You get stared at. It happens countless times every day. But have you ever pondered what’s really happening here? Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a professor at Emory University, has been giving it some thought. You can get a quick introduction above, and more extensive thinking in her new book, Staring: How We Look. Thanks Nicole [...]

F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads Shakespeare

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The University of South Carolina hosts a few gems, including F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) reading lines from Shakespeare’s Othello. Or, more specifically, Othello’s oration to Venetian senators. You can access the sound files here. This comes to us via Mike. Thanks to all who started sending good links our way. Whenever you see [...]