A video short of a dinner plate breaking and its shards expanding into space.
A video short of a dinner plate breaking and its shards expanding into space. Make sure to see how it was made.
Hearing Carol Kaye.
Beginning with "La Bamba," the musician, best known as a bassist with the Wrecking Crew, played on more hits than you can name: sessions with the Beach Boys (Pet Sounds), Ike & Tina Turner ("River Deep, Mountain High") and Simon & Garfunkel ("Feelin' Groovy&
What a nanosecond really looks like.
From a 1983 profile in 60 Minutes, Captain Grace M. Hopper, former American computer scientist and Navy rear admiral, and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, explains a nanosecond. You can skip to 4:00, but the whole thing is good.
This week's ambience: A neural network generates infinite technical death metal.
This week's ambience: A neural network generates infinite technical death metal.
John Peel visited British towns that spawned music trends.
In 1999, John Peel visited British towns that spawned music trends. Here he is in Cornwall with Richard D. James (The Aphex Twin), David Hodge, a Cornish language poet, and Helen from In Watermelon Sugar.
Scientists use drones to find rare flowers.
Botanists found a rare hibiscus flower, Hibiscadelphus woodii, thought to be a extinct, by flying a drone down a cliff face in Kauai (skip to 00:58 for the goods). They’d hiked 700 ft down from the top of the Kalalau Valley cliffs to get there, but couldn’t
Three hours of white noise that evokes sleeping in the crew quarters of the Starship Enterprise.
This week's ambience: three hours of white noise that evokes the crew sleeping quarters of the Starship Enterprise.
Life of a blind skateboarder.
Dan Mancina was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa when he was 13. By his late twenties, he couldn't drive anymore and started to consider himself a blind person. That's when he resumed skateboarding. I used to run a lot. I remember running in the park, and some
When Philip Glass wrote for Sesame Street.
Part one of "Geometry of Circles," Philip Glass's series of vocal and instrumental pieces for Sesame Street in 1979. Here's a video of all four segments.
An astronaut traverses the otherworldly landscapes of public lands in the American Southwest.
In a film short, an astronaut traverses the otherworldly landscapes of public lands in the American Southwest.