As if her story weren't tragic and fascinating enough, here's an illuminating secret history of Marilyn Monroe's skirt-raising scene from The Seven Year Itch. There was a dark subtext to the comedy. Gathered at that late hour were hundreds of gawkers, almost all
Think shoveling your driveway is a pain? Here's how they clear the cables on British Columbia's Port Mann Bridge, one of the world's largest cable stay suspension bridges. (h/t The Kid Should See This)
The gun lobby is justifiably claiming victory after the election, after the red wave that swept the country's state legislatures and governors mansions (and, uh, White House). FYI, it's revving up to push both concealed and campus carry across the country this year.
A fun short film on the difficulty of giving someone a mountain for their birthday. See here for background, or some crisp portraits of life in Washington timber towns.
"A medium as the internet, which absolutely establishes and shows us that we are living in total fragmentation." When a BBC interviewer blew off the notion that the web could have major impacts on society, David Bowie nailed the future of the internet two decades ago.
LA's desmogification came at the hands of a man named Dr. Haagen-Smit, who was able to distill raw LA air to a few "vile-smelling" droplets and analyze their contents.
As you suspected: it's impossible to peel an orange cleanly.
How to see dead people again and again: Industrial Light and Magic explains re-birthing Leia and Tarkin for the latest Star Wars film.
The incoming Ghanaian president is being lampooned for lifting passages word-for-word from George W. Bush and Bill Clinton for his inauguration speech.
Ever wonder how comics get made? A master class conversation on the writing and illustrating process, with Limbo creators Caspar Wijngaard and Dan Watters.
