Thirty days in a canoe.
For your wanderlust, or the next time you're stuck eating a sandwich at your desk: four guys take a month-long, thousand-kilometre canoe journey over the Canadian shield to Hudson Bay.
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A short film where M.C. Escher meets Rube Goldberg
Some surreality—and a surreal level of detail—from artist Ugo Gattoni to sharpen your mind. Good morning.
It’s too soon to forget you. It’s too late to be free.
NBC says Trump wanted America's nukes to be increased tenfold, prompting Tillerson to call him “a moron.” Military advisors thankfully convinced Mr. Trump otherwise. 1/18 The White House responds to NBC’s scoop by threatening to yank NBC’s license. Fortunately, NBC doesn’t have a license
The Voynich manuscript has never been cracked.
The Voynich manuscript—written in an unknown language, carbon dated to around 1420, studied by endless cryptographers, and quite possibly a hoax—has never been cracked. H/t the Browser.
Nobel winner Richard Thaler on what it means to nudge.
Here's economist Richard Thaler, who just won the Nobel Prize, explaining what a "nudge" is—he uses his own success as a good example—and why it's impossible to avoid meddling.
Eminem starts a rap battle with Trump.
Recorded for last night's BET Awards, Eminem raps a long Trump takedown, with plenty of references to recent news.
"You lie."
New allegations against Harvey Weinstein, including several accounts of rape, are coming fast and furious. Many of Weinstein’s male allies remain silent, thought it doesn’t look like Ben Affleck’s going to escape unscathed. 1/13 Completely unrelated: Travel around the world in paper cutouts. (Because not everything
A family films their escape from Northern California fires
Footage from a family evacuating a wildfire in Sonoma County.
Priming the fake.
Fires in Northern California’s wine country kill at least 10, destroy at least 1,500 buildings. 1/16 A family films their way out while evacuating a wildfire in Sonoma County. 2/16 The Las Vegas massacre marked the 273rd mass shooting in the United States in 2017. 3/
How to make undulating forms
Granted, this seriously sets off my trypophobia, but these undulating forms and their piano accompaniment are rather nice.