Video Digest: October 12, 2007
Meave Gallagher scales the videos of rock climbing, chronicling amazing ascents: Scientists take their work to the peaks; Dan Osman, RIP; German DJ climbing; Chris Sharma the wunderkind; a French Spider-Man.
Meave Gallagher
Video Digest: September 21, 2007
Many people going very, very fast: Meave Gallagher on lunatic children, water-skiiers without shoes, a bicycling Rocketeer, modern downhill racers, dancers with spring in their step, Slovenian bad-asses, speed recitation, and a child who is glad he or she wore a helmet.
Video Digest: August 31, 2007
Miss Teen South Carolina is just the tip of the iceberg: Pageant videos to frighten, shock, amaze, frighten again, and plain horrify.
Video Digest: August 17, 2007
The rare (lunatic) authors who succeed on video: The Corporate Dominatrix; Conan gets hit on; Jon Stewart with Bill O’Reilly; Slam poetry, just because; One of Marley’s more ardent biographers; Goodall does her best chimp.
Video Digest: August 3, 2007
The modern American workplace in five acts: Cube farm as survival ground; Olympians at work; Copying one’s mistakes; Prescient “Office Space”; Revenge against one’s lessers.
Video Digest: July 27, 2007
A compilation of the remarkable Ms. Alexyss K. Tylor and her persuasive arguments for genital empowerment.
Video Digest: July 20, 2007
The beauty of bugs when compared to man: Leafcutter ants use antibiotics; Rhinoceros beetles lift weights; Ugly moths frighten poor Meave; Bees break hearts; Christmas for the insects.
Video Digest: May 25, 2007
Rescue tips for the rest of us: How to save yourself from drowning in freezing water; how to beat a rip tide; how to forage for food in the woods; how to survive a bear attack; how to be a lunatic.
Video Digest: May 18, 2007
Political clowns and posturing buffoons: Videos of our leaders at their worst (and most entertaining) moments.