A brief movie about a Cuban ballet school
A short film to watch while you're eating lunch at your desk today: "Full Circles," by Lily Cole, about dancer Carlos Acosta and his pledge to restore a ballet school in Cuba.
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Amazon guides users to chemical combos for explosives.
The algorithim behind Amazon's “frequently bought together” tool shows a quirk that's not terrific, optically: it can guide users to the chemical combinations for producing explosives. Steel ball bearings often used as shrapnel in explosive devices, ignition systems, and remote detonators are also readily available.
Profile of Chance the Rapper's hearing-impaired stage partner
A fun, interesting profile of Max Maxey, Chance the Rapper's onstage translator for deaf and hard-of-hearing hip-hop fans (seen above signing Warren G's "Regulate"). Maxey's ASL interpretation is an explosive, code-switching mishmash of textbook American Sign Language, pantomime,
Fuerza y ánimo, mi gente.
Hurricane Maria knocked out power on all of Puerto Rico, and it could take up to six months to restore service. Here’s how you can help the island's relief efforts. 1/16 Photos from Maria's path of destruction across the Caribbean. 2/16 Ways to
The inflatable tube man's birth story includes an ugly custody battle
Regarding yesterday's how-to guide for making your own inflatable tube man: Someone went to the trouble of figuring out the proper history of the obnoxious beasties, which includes a birth story beginning at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, ending with a not-so-cute patent/custody battle.
Beyonce's latest record features songs by a Canadian punk band
Beyoncé fans recently got a surprise when vinyl copies of Lemonade were shipped with one side featuring songs by the Canadian punk band Zex, thanks to a factory error. Zex, featured in the video above with their new song "No Sancturay," seems relatively cool with the attention. From
You're not getting Alpha Chi Omega with that Snapchat.
Maps and photos of the devastation from yesterday's 7.1-magnitude earthquake south of Mexico City. 1/19 More than 200 people have now died in the earthquake, which occurred on the anniversary of the 1985 quake that killed 20,000 and resulted in Mexico upgrading its building
How to make your own inflatable tubeman
What can we say, we like tinkerers. Plus, Cairo-based designer Dina Amin is just so damn charming. Here's how to make your own inflatable tubeman. Via The Kid Should See This. See also: Amin's "Tinker Friday" project series.
Contemporary lightkeepers explain their passion
Meet Ford Reiche, who's in the process of renovating the Halfway Rock Lighthouse in Casco Bay, Me. One in a series of brief profiles of contemporary "lightkeepers."
Just another Tuesday at the UN.
Addressing the UN this morning, Trump says if Pyongyang continues its nuclear threats, the US "will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea." 1/18 No one yet knows what it means that the US wiretapped Manafort before and after the election or that federal agents