Dishes and glasses smashing apart and reforming in an impressive CGI animation.

In this impressive CGI animation by Optical Arts, dishes and glasses smash apart and reform, again and again.

See also: Photos of sculptures captured at the moment of smashing, by Martin Klimas.

Jun 30, 2020

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Some nice timelapse footage of Yosemite's Half Dome being hiked at night. Though you'll probably want to mute the sound.

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Lauren Oyler goes shopping and discovers "table season"—when vintage shops see a surge of tables big enough to seat holiday meals.

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Nisha Chittal cops to enjoying pumpkin spice lattes sincerely, even if it suggests she's "mall" or a "basic bitch."

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To most outsiders, Hawai‘i is defined by the lei-draped, aloha-dispensing, honeymooner-welcoming image of the place. There’s no room for another version to emerge. At least that’s how it was until the telescope protests.

Much of modern Hawai‘i life, engineered for tourists’ consumption, makes Native Hawaiians feel like outsiders.

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More people died in Alabama during 2020 than were born, a first in state history. More than half of the state is now fully vaxxed.

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A 16-year-old aspiring concert pianist performs "eight levels of Bach," with explanations as to what makes them increasingly difficult.

Chenyue Yuan draws the stories of Chinese laborers who live and work in factories producing mass goods.

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“I love fables! I don’t take that as a critique.” What Anthony Doerr's been writing since All the Light We Cannot See.

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McMansion Hell comes for the 1980s on Staten Island.

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Populism is not uniquely responsible for polarization, but it is crucial to understand that its key strategy is polarization. Right-wing populism seeks to divide polities into homogeneous groups and then insinuates that some groups do not truly belong or are fundamentally illegitimate.

Jan-Werner Müller: Culture wars are a device used by the elite to stay elite.

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The debate over who deserves credit for pioneering mRNA technology is heating up. Hundreds have worked on it for decades.

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From May, neuroscientist Tamar Makin explains how her lab trained people to use a third thumb.

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Murals depicting western mythology photographed in their non-mythological surroundings, by Lucas Deshazer.

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"It’s a vision of a masculinity I’ve never experienced before." On the gentle assurance of DIY YouTube dads.

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Tiny, fanciful signage installations in cities, by Michael Pederson.

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A right-wing group wants Texas teachers to say whether they're being asked to respect students' gender identity or teach CRT.

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An incredibly detailed tool for calculating Covid risk for various activities based on location, vaccination status, and more.

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Kudzanai Chiurai's "The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember" asks visitors to curate southern African art and history.

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