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≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
It’s getting close to that time of the year, at least in the Northern Hemisphere — flu season. And so, with the help of NPR’s Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky, we’re taking an animated look at what actually happens when viruses invade your body and trick a single cell into making a million [...]
≡ Category: Random, Science, Video - Science | ≅ 2 Comments
All we can say is bless Don Pettit. While working on the International Space Station in 2008, the NASA astronaut shot videos that are literally and figuratively out of this world: The Aurora Borealis Viewed from Orbit and What It Feels Like to Fly Over Planet Earth. And then we discover that Pettit invented a“zero-g coffee cup” that [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
With a series of three films, director Kirby Ferguson has been gradually making the case that “Everything is a Remix.” In doing what they do, artists collect material, combine and transform it, and eventually mold it into something unique, though not entirely new. Ferguson has traced this idea through literature and music, filmmaking, and technology/computing. And while we [...]
≡ Category: Beat & Tweets | ≅ Leave a Comment
What cultural goodies did we tweet (and re-tweet) on our Twitter stream in recent days? Here are the highlights. Follow us on Twitter at @openculture to get the rest, or Like us on Facebook. We’ll keep you plugged into quality culture every day. Nobel Prize for Literature Goes to Tomas Tranströmer: Read article. Read his poems: After a [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Film, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
Yesterday was the 42nd anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The original BBC show aired for only five years, but its impact on popular culture has been lasting. To celebrate, we bring you the 1982 film, Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. The image quality isn’t the best here, but [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Life, Technology | ≅ 1 Comment
We originally posted this video back in 2009, and it seems like the right time to bring it back. It captures the first of many times that Steve Jobs thrilled audiences with the promise of what technology could deliver. The video takes you back to January 1984, when Jobs demoed the first Macintosh. (The event [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
David Lynch has been busy lately, creating everything except the feature films that made him famous. Earlier this year, he “directed” Duran Duran’s concert in LA and collaborated with Interpol to create an animated sequence for the 2011 Coachella Festival. Then came his puzzling video response to the Washington Debt Deal, a creepy commercial for his new [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
It’s a good time to be a fan of Haruki Murakami. Last month, his short story, “Town of Cats,” was published in The New Yorker. Later in October, his new book 1Q84 hits the stands in the US. (Watch the book trailer above.) And, right now, the British bookmaker Ladbrokes is giving Murakami 7-to-1 odds of winning the Nobel Prize in [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Science | ≅ 1 Comment
After dismissing the popular notion that scientists are unable to truly appreciate beauty in nature, physicist Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988) explains what a scientist really is and does. Here are some of the most memorable lines from this beautiful mix of Feynman quotes and (mostly) BBC and NASA footage: People say to me, Are [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music | ≅ 2 Comments
Just a quick reminder, Martin Scorsese’s two-part documentary on George Harrison airs tonight and tomorrow night on HBO. After making films about Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, the legendary filmmaker now turns somewhat unexpectedly to the silent Beatle, and you have to wonder why. Why George? So Scorsese recalls when things originally clicked, the [...]
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