From the Big Think, renowned astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson discusses “The cosmic perspective” and how humans react when they fully grasp their size and importance relative to the known universe. Or, put another way …
The BBC’s perceptive radio notes your geographic location, local conditions, background noise and more and responds accordingly. While most ‘old media’ companies have been playing an endless game of catch up, merely trying to stay relevant, for the last decade or so the BBC is at least trying to innovate. The new perceptive radio
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According to Boing Boing, this video of the Oklahoma tornado was shot out of a shelter window. That, in and of itself, is pretty amazing because tornado shelters aren’t supposed to have windows in the first place. “Charles Gafford lives in Moore, Oklahoma and held his smartphone out the window of his shelter to film
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According to the CBC Canada Post sent letters to nearly 1 million Canadians this week urging them to take the “no flyers” signs off of their mailbox: Anick Losier, a spokeswoman for Canada Post, said her organization wants to be sure that citizens are not missing out on important, but unaddressed, mail. “[The letter is]
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There is no doubt that Somalia has its problems, but the problems do not define the country. If you get your impressions from the main stream media the list of things you probably know about Somalia includes anarchy, famine, piracy, warlords and Black Hawk Down. That list, however, represents only what the main stream media
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The quote on the image below is from Banksy. The author of the image itself is unknown. The long and short of it though is that all advertising that appears before you belongs to you. Carry art supplies with you, download a video and/or audio editor and feel free to modify, comment on, respond to
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Performed by Seven Handle Circus at Atlanta’s Terminal West, Feburary 2013 because really, Daft Punk should have been a Bluegrass band in the first place. [via LaughingSquid]
On May 12, Salon published ‘Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class‘ since that time I’ve had the article sent to me about a half a dozen times from people who thought I might like to comment. Sadly, most of those people do not seem to have read the entire article and somehow missed
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From the people who brought you Star Wars in 60 seconds, here is Aliens (the second film in the series) retold in 60 seconds of animation: [via io9]
Horror novelist Stephen King has been quoted as saying that “Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.” This, in a nutshell, seems to sum up the approach of the last two show
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