Albert Einstein is often quoted, and many of the quotations are fake. But his love letters, and divorce letters, are pretty well known. This video includes readings such as: 1:09 - Highschool relationship with Marie Winteler 3:13 - Breaking up with Marie 4:36 - Relationship with Mileva Maric 9:05
Animated sketches by Gabriella Marsh of what's seen and heard in la Plaça de la Virreina, a square in Barcelona. Via TKSST
Ten years later, arguing that the film The Social Network feels ever more prescient of our present world.
Coming soon to your socially distanced Halloween: a zip line for trick-or-treaters. Via Laughing Squiad
A short film for your coffeebreak: Floaters, when spaceships meet of different size.
Georgetown University recently acquired the “Journal of the Slave Ship Mary,” one of only a dozen or so known logbooks, or dated journals with daily entries, that survive from slave ship voyages between Africa and North America. Noted by Atlas Obscura: Four of Mary’s casualties resulted from an attempted
Enjoying a precooked, prepackaged meal from around 1902, still edible over a hundred years later.
From 2013, a sailing trip from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. Via things
From 1973, a meditative tour of public art in New York City.
A beautiful time-lapse of molds growing.
