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≡ Category: Film | ≅ 4 Comments
Lars von Trier stepped on the third rail Wednesday when he called himself a Nazi and Hitler sympathizer in jest. The joke didn’t go over so well, and, his apologies (sometimes sounding sincere, sometimes not so much) didn’t win people over. Today, Cannes officials took an unprecedented step, declaring him persona non grata at the [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
In this highly NSFW video produced by the Australian television show Hungry Beast, a posse of bona fide, degree-holding climate scientists put the ultimate smackdown on climate change deniers. By NSFW, we mean that the rap is “more expletive-ridden than the latest Lil’ Wayne single.” Still, after a few listens we did find a couplet clean [...]
≡ Category: History, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
The National Jukebox, the new digital musical player of the Library of Congress, features more than 10,000 songs released by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925 (with the promise of more to come). You can build your own playlist from the many genres of music available, which include some extremely rare recordings from different genres [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ Leave a Comment
The title says it all. The artwork is pretty mind-blowing. The soundtrack? Not so much. But you can’t have it all. Thanks to anonymous user for sending…
≡ Category: Beat & Tweets | ≅ 10 Comments
Here’s something a little experimental for you. We post many great culture links on our Twitter stream. But we realize that you don’t necessarily stay glued to Twitter … or even use it all. So a couple of times each week, we’ll give you our favorite culture links from around the web. If you like [...]
≡ Category: Books, e-books, Google | ≅ 3 Comments
To date, Google Books has scanned 50,000 books from the 16th and 17th centuries. And by working with great European libraries (Oxford University Library and the National Libraries of Florence and Rome, to name a few), the Mountain View-based company expects to index hundreds of thousands of pre-1800 titles in the coming years. Traditionally, most historical texts have [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film, Politics | ≅ 1 Comment
The German multi-media artist Max Hattler describes his award-winning short film “Collision“ (2005) as “Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colors and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection,” which will make no sense whatsoever until you watch the video. It’s barely over two minutes long, so just give it a shot and let the images do their [...]
≡ Category: Television, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
If you’re a Gen-X’er or older, this will likely dust off some old memories, unleashing one of those “Yes, I remember that” moments. From 1963 through 1988, Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler hosted Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, a 30 minute program that aired Sunday nights on NBC. An early precursor to Animal Planet and The Discovery [...]
≡ Category: Television | ≅ 1 Comment
The world is in shambles. Civilization is in free fall. And it’s all because of that ubiquitous electronic box spewing Snooki and Ozzy and The Donald into the homes of innocent people, polluting their minds and corrupting their souls. Or anyway, that’s what British comedian Charlie Brooker thinks. Brooker is in a position to know. [...]
≡ Category: Books, Science | ≅ 3 Comments
Richard Dawkins, the Oxford evolutionary biologist, has a new book coming out this fall. This time, it’s a children’s book called The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True. Interviewed in Der Spiegel in March, Dawkins talked a little about what he hoped to accomplish here, saying: Each chapter is a question like: [...]
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