Nathan Callahan / Video Clip of the Day

March 31, 2014
Slow Life
"Slow" marine animals show their secret life under high magnification. Corals and sponges are very mobile creatures, but their motion is only detectable at different time scales compared to ours and requires time lapses to be seen. These animals build coral reefs and play crucial roles in the biosphere, yet we know almost nothing about their daily lives.

March 28, 2014
Ruin Lust
Ruin Lust offers a guide to the mournful, thrilling, comic and perverse uses of ruins in art from the seventeenth century to the present day, featuring work by Constable and Turner alongside contemporary artists such as Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean. In this short, meditative film made to accompany the exhibition, artworks are transposed from gallery walls and reimagined within a ruinous landscape, whilst we hear a passage from the book 'Pleasure of Ruins', by Rose Macaulay.

March 27, 2104
Evolution of the Bicycle
The evolution of the bicycle told with animation all the way from the wooden horse to the modern racer.

March 26, 2014
Dance on a Circle
A clay, pottery wheel, music, improvisation from Russia by Mikhail Sadovnikov.

March 25, 2014
Growth is Not Enough
Our politicians are hung up on keeping the growth curve rising. But does GDP really tell us all we need to know about a country's wealth and well-being? In this new RSA Short, Kate Raworth makes a powerful argument to look beyond economic growth alone for a true measure of prosperity and progress.

March 24, 2014
What The Future Sounded Like
Post-war Britain rebuilt itself on a wave of scientific and industrial breakthroughs that culminated in the cultural revolution of the 1960’s. In this atmosphere was born the Electronic Music Studios (EMS), a radical group of avant-garde electronic musicians who utilized technology and experimentation to compose a futuristic electronic sound-scape for the New Britain. What The Future Sounded Like colours in a lost chapter in music history, uncovering a group of composers and innovators who harnessed technology and new ideas to re-imagine the boundaries of music and sound. Features music from Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Roxy Music and The Emperor Machine.

March 21, 2014
When Water Flows Uphill
In the Leidenfrost Effect, a water droplet will float on a layer of its own vapor if heated to certain temperature. This common cooking phenomenon takes center stage in a series of playful experiments by physicists at the University of Bath, who discovered new and fun means to manipulate the movement of water.

March 20, 2014
The Orginal First Kiss
Le Baiser ("The Kiss"), which showed at Cannes, was directed by Pascale Ferran, who is best known for her 2007 adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover. The resemblance to the recently viral "First Kiss" was spotted by the French magazine Brain. There are key differences, though — Ferran's version includes real couples, not strangers, and there's no sugary indie soundtrack.

March 19, 2014
A Polarizing Discovery About the Big Bang
There's no way for us to know exactly what happened some 13.8 billion years ago, when our universe burst onto the scene. But scientists announced Monday a breakthrough in understanding how our world as we know it came to be.

March 18, 2014
This Is Your Wilderness on Drugs
The landscape-scarring, energy-sucking, wildlife-killing side of cannabis farming.

March 17, 2014
Glass Brain Flythrough
This is an anatomically-realistic 3D brain visualization depicting real-time source-localized activity (power and "effective" connectivity) from EEG (electroencephalographic) signals. Each color represents source power and connectivity in a different frequency band (theta, alpha, beta, gamma) and the golden lines are white matter anatomical fiber tracts. Estimated information transfer between brain regions is visualized as pulses of light flowing along the fiber tracts connecting the regions.

March 14, 2014
It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like A Kiss is an olfactory-audiovisual promenade-style theatre production, first performed between 2nd and 19th July 2009 as part of the second Manchester International Festival, co-produced with the BBC. Themed on "how power really works in the world", it is a collaboration between film-maker Adam Curtis and the Punchdrunk theatre company, with original music composed by Damon Albarn and performed by the Kronos Quartet. The visitor is immersed in sets based on archive footage from Bagdad, 1963; New York, 1964; Moscow, 1959; in the Amygdala, 1959-69; and Kinshasa, 1960. The title is taken from The Crystals' 1962 song "He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)", written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.

March 13, 2014
Air Traffic over Europe
This data visualization of Air Traffic in Europe was created from real flight data. It shows the air traffic which flies on a typical summer day and highlights the intensity of the operation in Europe - an operation which runs 24x7x365.

March 12, 2014
Mr Chow in “The Art of Dinner”
The Chinese star chef discusses his artistic leanings with British restaurateur Jackson Boxer, accompanied by a colorful, stop-motion visual feast.

March 11, 2014
Elephant Empathy
Elephants are known to be highly social and intelligent. Now there is evidence that they engage in something that looks very much like a group hug when a fellow elephant is in distress.

March 10, 2014
The Weight of Mountains
This short film by Temujin Doran is about the processes by which mountains are created and eventually destroyed. It is based upon the work of British geographer L. Dudley Stamp, and was shot in Iceland.

March 7. 2014
Cracow | 4 seasons

March 6, 2014
Joshua Tree
Various moments from Ari Fararooy's 3-day trip to Joshua Tree National Park in January 2014.

March 5, 2014
Putt-Putt Perfection
The story of IT manager Rick Baird's legendary round of perfect putt-putt golf, only the third score of 18 in the Professional Putters Association's 50-year history of putt-putt tournament competition.

March 4, 2014
Li Hongbo: Statues in Motion
Classical sculptures that defy logic. Paper master Li Hongbo stretches your imagination with a twisted take on traditional sculpting.

March 3, 2014
The Largest Glacier Calving Ever Filmed
On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.

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