Time-Lapse of Soap Bubbles Freezing
Wherever you live, this video is about to make you feel a lot colder. By ZALUSKArt
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January 12, 2016
* Bernie Sanders makes his point. * "The US had 43 presidents before Obama, but only five stood before Congress as Obama will this Tuesday night." * Ted Cruz's constitutional law professor says Cruz is eligible for the presidency—the Founders probably wouldn't agree. * Physicists spent a
Where the Streets Have One Name
What is the best way to honor a man like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? Photographs from a cross-country trip to document streets named after the American icon.
January 11, 2016
* Sean Penn's renegade interview helped Mexico pin down escaped cocaine boss Guzman. * Conclusions from a new book on how isolated, commiserating extremists band together online. * French crackdown after Charlie Hebdo exposes a double standard when it comes to defending free speech. * Obama will campaign for the Democratic nominee,
The Parking Letters
Los Angeles drivers love to leave notes on windshields—passive-aggressive, or just plain aggressive. A vigilante sets out to communicate politely with the city.
January 8, 2016
* American drone strikes in Pakistan, as well as the number of people they killed, dropped significantly in 2015. * Almost 4,000 Pakistanis have been killed by American drones since 2004. * A staggeringly high amount of people killed by drones under Obama have not been military targets. * He may have wanted
January 7, 2016
* "More people will get into more trucks. Most of them will get where they're going. But a few of them will die." * Turkish police raid business making fake life vests—that actually sink—for refugees. * Hundreds of thousands of indigenous Peruvians were sterilized under a nefarious
January 6, 2016
* Hundreds of "drunk and aggressive" men molested women in a New Year's attack in Germany, stirring tension over refugees. * Susan Sarandon reports on the refugee crisis. * How each presidential candidate must perform in the early states in order to win their nominations. * Navigating the personal, legal,
The Politics of Music
Michael Chanan’s portrait of Pierre Boulez, The Politics of Music (1972), documented the composer’s quest to move classical music out of the concert halls and into public spaces. One of the 20th century’s most significant composers, Pierre Boulez, died this week at 90.
Being John
When five million people share your name, your Google-ability is miserably low. Will this forever change naming?