Here it is. A short history of the Moon. 4.5 billion years covered in a slick 2.6 minutes, all thanks to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The video, moving from the Moon’s hot creation to its pockmarked present, can be downloaded via NASA’s web site.
Now More Culture from Around the Web (all previously aired on our Twitter Stream):
BBC’s Collection of Famous Authors Reading From Their Works
Five Key TED Talks, According to The New Yorker
“Oh my ass burns like fire! ” Mozart Writes a Letter to His Cousin, 1777
Sylvia Plath’s Drawings (Presented at London’s Mayor Gallery)
Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Recreated in 7,000 Dominoes
Drunk Texts from Famous Authors, Courtesy of The Paris Review
An Abridged History of Video Games in Under Three Minutes
Matt Taibbi Looks Back at Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail”
How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself
Colum McCann Reads His Story “Transatlantic.” Added to our collection of Free Audio Books
Anne Frank’s Diary Was Almost Never Published. Francine Prose Tells the Story
Darwin & Design (MIT). Added to our List of 500 Free Courses (under Literature)
Famed Harvard Biologist E.O. Wilson Gives Advice to Young Scientists at TEDMed
Author Rohinton Mistry Offers Words of Wisdom to Graduating Class at Ryerson University
Double Indemnity, the Classic Film by Billy Wilder on YouTube
Gives new meaning to ‘crater within a crater’ – analysis for gauging age of a heavenly body. Excellent graphics.