An 85-year-old school building "walks" across Shanghai.
An 85-year-old school building "walks" across Shanghai in 18 days.
A brief nature documentary about the most formidable species: plastic.
A brief nature documentary "about the most formidable species in our oceans: plastic."
Martin Roberts plays a piano anytime he congratulates people
From 2019, and funny whether or not you're familiar with Martin Roberts (Homes Under the Hammer), who seems to play a piano when he congratulates people on buying a house.
Revolutionary-War-era mac and cheese
We're glad to see some of the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen cooks moving on with their own projects after the blowup. Here, Sohla El-Waylly makes some Revolutionary-War-era mac and cheese.
Carl Sagan in The Violent Universe, produced by the BBC in 1969
If you liked David Attenborough's new "witness statement" on Netflix, with lots of footage of the naturalist as a young man, here's Carl Sagan in The Violent Universe, produced by the BBC in 1969, broadcast only three months before the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Down the rabbit hole of 3D printing
A compilation of 3D printing timelapse videos. More can be found here. Via Core77
How to find a supermassive black hole.
UCLA astrophysicist Andrea Ghez, who just won the Nobel Prize in Physics, spent over two decades proving that a supermassive black hole anchors the center of the Milky Way. In the video, she (briefly) explains how they did it.
On the meaning of swimming pools in movies.
On the meaning of swimming pools in movies. See also: "Which Hollywood Sex Symbols Actually Have Sex on Screen? A Study."
How the United States bungled the plague
Four percent of the world’s population, and more than 20 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths. How the United States has bungled the coronavirus: what went wrong when, and who’s to blame and why.
The Hood Internet mashes another year of music into three minutes—this time it's 1990.
The Hood Internet is back with its series of mixing an entire year of music into a single track. This time: 1990. See also: The Hood Internet remixes 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, and previous years.