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≡ Category: Life, Music | ≅ 6 Comments
The place: A produce market in Valencia, Spain. The day: Just a day like any other. But then suddenly Verdi’s La traviata booms out over the speakers, and opera singers, initially masquerading as shopkeepers, take center stage. Stick with it until the end. The customer reaction is precious. We’ve added this one to our YouTube [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 2 Comments
This animated footage gives you a more global view of the Chilean earthquake in action. Seen from this vantage point, there’s a certain beauty to Mother Nature in action. Waves rippling across the Pacific, as if a stone were thrown into a calm pond. But, obviously, for those experiencing the earthquake on the ground, it’s [...]
≡ Category: Astronomy, Physics | ≅ Leave a Comment
Above, we bring you what astrophysicist Daniel Holz calls “one of the coolest movies in all of science.” What you see here is not exactly straightforward. But it’s the work of UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez, and it essentially shows stars orbiting around a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy over the past 15 [...]
≡ Category: Life, Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
For the 13th time, Chinese authorities arrested the well-known Chinese writer Liao Yiwu (The Corpse Walker) as he boarded a plane to attend a literary festival in Cologne, Germany. He has now been placed under house arrest. You can learn more about it here. (Also read Philip Gourevitch’s blog post for The New Yorker.) Please join this newly [...]
≡ Category: Apple | ≅ 1 Comment
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≡ Category: Art, History | ≅ Leave a Comment
How did the artist Kseniya Simonova win the Ukrainian version of Britain’s Got Talent? By using the art of sand painting to recount the story of Germany’s invasion of Ukraine in 1941. Life was somewhat ordinary, then it all fell apart. And, by the war’s end, an estimated 10 million Ukrainians were left dead. It’s [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 1 Comment
An interesting factoid relating to the devastating earthquake in Chile this weekend. A NASA scientist surmises that the quake probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day. As this piece in Business Week goes on to explain: Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, changing the distribution of mass [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 2 Comments
A good soul has pulled together a series of audio recordings by David Foster Wallace, the author of Infinite Jest, the sprawling 1100 page novel that now sits on TIME Magazine’s list of the best 100 novels ever. The audio collection (find here) is broken down into the following categories: Interviews & Profiles Readings Eulogies & Remembrances [...]
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