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May 30, 2014
The Moons of Mars Explained
What do you know about the Moons of Mars? Nothing? They are super cool (and strange), promise.
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May 29, 2014
Reawakening Extinct Species
Using new genetic technologies, scientists are trying to bring back extinct species. Meet researchers working to revive the passenger pigeon, once the most abundant bird in the world, and the woolly mammoth, which they say could slow down the melting of Arctic permafrost. It may be possible, but is it right to turn back the clock?
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May 28, 2014
The Blind Woman Who Saw Rain
Imagine a world that is completely black. You can't see a thing — unless something happens to move. You can see the rain falling from the sky, the steam coming from your coffee cup, a car passing by on the street. This was the world that Milena Channing claimed to see, back in 2000, shortly after she was blinded by a stroke at 29 years old. But when she told her doctors about these strange apparitions, they looked at her brain scans (the stroke had destroyed basically her entire primary visual cortex, the receiving station of visual information to the brain), and told her she must be hallucinating.
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May 27, 2014
Swinging Britain
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May 26, 2014
Banksy's "Artist in Residence" Video
To accept his Webby for Person of the Year, Banksy made this video about his Residency in New York City.
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May 23, 2014
Slavoj Žižek: "I'm generally opposed to wisdom"
Slavoj Žižek tells Paul Holdengräber why he thinks wisdom is conformist. Excerpt from a conversation on International Authors' Stage in The Black Diamond, Copenhagen.
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May 22, 2014
Courtroom Sketch Artist
This short documentary captures the rise and fall of a courtroom sketch artist in Texas.
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May 21, 2014
Andy Warhol Wrestling Fan
Mean Gene Okerlund gets the opportunity to interview legendary artist Andy Warhol backstage at The War to Settle the Score in 1985.
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May 20, 2014
Vermibus "Dissolving Europe"
Using a dubious inter-rail ticket, Vermibus set out with a set of 90 keys and his pallet of solvents to physically and temporally highjack the western world of advertisements in the name of fine art. Each site is carefully deliberated with its environment, from Rolex boutiques, to archaic museums. The system looks simple in movement: unlock and roll the advertising poster to create a huge blank gleaming white breath of fresh air in the urban environment. The advert then undertakes the process of counter action painting using a series of solvents and brushes, it is then replaced in another site, another city, another country.
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May 19, 2014
The Great Idaho Debate Supercut
That scheming steaming trash heap of a Governor, Butch Otter, quite cynically invited both of these batshit loons to join in, in hopes they'd make his extreme right wing views look palatable.
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May 16, 2014
Preserving material at The Morgan Library in New York
Go inside the walls of The Morgan Library in New York, for a journey in cultural heritage photography.
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May 15, 2014
What if the Moon was a Disco Ball?
When as near as the ISS, the Earth surface to disco-ball-moon surface distance is 420 km or so The orbital period in relation to the earth is realistic, about a 2.1 hour period. When the disco moon is in low orbit, each reflection of the sun as a caustic is effectively a tiny sun, although you can never reflect enough light to get above the temperature of the surface of the sun (about 6000 degrees).
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May 14, 2014
A Visit from Saturn
What if Saturn flew past the Earth? In this clip by Yeto Dynamics, Saturn's rings were created using Voyager data and Cassini Data, and tables from the IAU.
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May 13, 2014
The Invisible Photograph
See how a team of computer scientists, archivists, artists, and curators teamed up to unearth Andy Warhol’s lost digital works.
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May 11, 2014
Allergy to Originality
In this animated Op-Doc by Drew Christie, two men discuss whether anything is truly original — especially in movies and books.
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May 9, 2014
The Drinkable Book — Water is Life
The latest application for the folio design is a collection of water filters that are long-lasting and also provide information about consuming unsafe water. The humanitarian group WaterisLife and the ad agency DDB have teamed up to bring these books to developing countries with unreliable water sources.
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May 8, 2014
Valley of Dolls
Ayano Tsukimi (64) is living in Nagoro, a village in eastern Iya on Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan. Not many people are still living there. For those who die or move away, Ayano Tsukimi is making lifesized dolls in their liking and puts them in places that were important to them. The dolls are scattered around the whole valley.
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May 7, 2014
Overview
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.
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May 6, 2014
Present Shock
We live in a different now than has ever been known. Now is not the now of your grandma’s careful attention to detail and rhythm. Today, the world pours in through our beeping mobile device’s calendar, emails, text messages, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and more. The frantic attempt to respond to all this everything creates what Douglas Rushkoff has dubbed “present shock,” a condition in which we’re assaulted by a present that we ceaselessly grasp to obtain and never quite live in. Not entirely opposed to our technologies, Rushkoff questions how they can better complement our basic rhythms of presence.
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May 5, 2014
Internet Citizens: Defend Net Neutrality
True net neutrality means the free exchange of information between people and organizations. Information is key to a society's well being. One of the most effective tactics of an invading military is to inhibit the flow of information in a population; this includes which information is shared and by who. Today we see this war being waged on American citizens. Recently the FCC has moved to redefine "net neutrality" to mean that corporations and organizations can pay to have their information heard, or worse, the message of their competitors silenced. We as a nation must settle for nothing less than complete neutrality in our communication channels. This is not a request, but a demand by the citizens of this nation. No bandwidth modifications of information based on content or its source.
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May 2, 2014
Are Athletes Really Getting Faster, Better, Stronger?
When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.
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May 1, 2014
The Importance of Kindness
Animated adaptation of a commencement speech given by George Saunders at Syracuse University, May 2013.
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