Greg Paulus's flop is a gem in the Duke-hater's highlight reel—in case you didn't know, despite the team's winning ways and its coach's astounding career, many sports fans hate Dook passionately—but this guide to thorough haterdom, specific
Helado Negro released one of our favorite albums of 2016 (if only we hadn't accidentally deleted them), the transportive Private Energy. And the three songs in this video are three mesmerizing reasons why.
What's inside a tape measure? (We are such suckers for this kind of thing.) See also: What's inside STEM Robots?
In case your CPR training is out-of-date, some news: Bear pop music in mind when performing chest compressions. Related: A playlist of 100-bpm songs approved by New York Presbyterian Hospital for CPR—admittedly a treatment that only works about eight percent of the time.
Here's a terrific "mega-meta list" of critics picks for the best classical recordings from last year. The video is from Hans Abrahamsen's list-topping Let Me Tell You, a cycle of songs using Ophelia's lines in Hamlet, with soprano/composer Barbara
In rehearsal footage from 1986, Keith Richards can't nail Chuck Berry's "Oh, Carol" riff, and Berry doesn't give him a pass.
A North Carolina startup uses bacteria to grow "biocement" bricks to avoid the hefty fossil fuel consumption needed for normal cement.
A recording of Edward Gorey recalling when he bought (and lost) a mummy's head. Drawn and animated posthumously by Gorey himself. (Presumably with some assistance from the still-living Benjamin and Jim Wickey, who created the segment for an upcoming Gorey documentary.)
How a Bach Stradivarius trumpet is made is interesting to watch. But how the mouthpiece gets carved by machine, seen above, is riveting.
The destruction of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, whose health is a canary for the wellbeing of oceans at large, is some 30 years ahead of schedule, according to a new study. Meanwhile, the country's conservative prime minister has used Australia's green-friendly international image
