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≡ Category: Current Affairs, Life | ≅ 1 Comment
In a world of 7 billion people, who is the most “typical”? That’s the question National Geographic asks (and answers) in a visually engaging video that kicks off a year-long look at global population issues. National Geographic’s website now hosts a feature article that prefaces the series and also an accompanying photo gallery. On a [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Theatre | ≅ 1 Comment
Here’s the trailer for the play Frankenstein, which opens in London at the National Theater this Thursday. Two intriguing points: 1.) This production is helmed by Danny Boyle, the Oscar-winning director behind Slumdog Milionaire, 127 Hours, and the appropriately terrifying zombie movie 28 Days Later. 2.) Boyle’s Frankenstein is part of the National Theater Live program – now in [...]
≡ Category: Art, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
In 2009, Tate Liverpool displayed four works of contemporary art in different locations around the city. Acclaimed film director Mike Figgis was asked to turn the reactions of Liverpoodlians to these sculptures into short films. The video above shows teenagers discussing Jeff Koons’s “Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank.” Another short film captures the views of students when [...]
≡ Category: Harvard, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
10 Harvard professors. 10 fascinating ideas. 10 minutes each. That was the gist of Harvard Thinks Big, a TED-esque event held on February 11th. Now fast forward several weeks, and the talks all appear online for free. Find them on YouTube, iTunes, or Harvard’s dedicated web site. Of all the 10 talks, we decided to feature one: Daniel [...]
≡ Category: Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Nature shows its force once again, this time in Hawaii. Last weekend, the U.S. Geological Survey detected unusual activity at the Kilauea volcano. And, within minutes, the floor of the Pu’u O’o crater began to collapse. It’s all captured in the short video above. The Washington Post has a little more on the story… via [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
As Cartoon Brew explains it: “Wolfgang Matzl remade Inception with vintage paper cut-outs, shot frame-by-frame on his digital camera, for the Done In 60 Seconds competition (where entrants recreate a movie in no more than a minute). His film was one of the 10 finalists in Berlin, Germany.” You can watch other shortlisted films here… via Boing [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 2 Comments
The jazz vocalist and ten-time Grammy winner Bobby McFerrin turns 61 today. To celebrate, we’re posting this clip from the 2009 World Science Festival, in which McFerrin leads an impromptu audience sing-a-long in order to demonstrate the power of the pentatonic scale. We bet you’ve never seen music theory taught quite like this. McFerrin, by the way, [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy | ≅ 5 Comments
Here are a few basic truths: life is essentially meaningless; your hard work won’t dictate where your life goes; you will be struck down by death; and your loved ones and your achievements will whither and turn to dust. A grim way to look at things perhaps. But a long line of philosophers, starting with [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has released an animated video showing the tsunami originating off the coast of Japan, and then spreading across the Pacific. Dramatic, to say the least. Last year, NOAA also produced an animation that visualized the tremors from the big Chilean quake as they worked their way across the [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Television | ≅ 5 Comments
A quick news bulletin: Japan was struck by a massive 8.9 earthquake today, followed by some devastating tsunamis (see clip below). Al Jazeera is providing live coverage (in English) on the web. Start watching here. Or find another live stream from NHK in Japan. What’s more, The Wall Street Journal has a live blog dedicated [...]
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