Polyphonic singing is easier to understand by seeing
Throat-singing allows a singer to produce multiple tones at once, including harmonics and overtones. It can be baffling to hear, but when you see it visualized, it makes a lot more sense.
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Surreal worlds in snowglobes
A look inside the special snowglobes made by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, where something often goes wrong.
The crazy, wild train surfers of Mumbai
The crazy, wild train surfers of Mumbai. Insane. From the filmmaker: “All around world, the exact same human dynamics are happening but under very different social circumstances. Whether in the rugged outskirts of Mumbai, these kids are in many ways behaving in the same way that New York kids would.
Time-lapse video of smog rolling into Beijing
Time-lapse video of smog rolling into Beijing within the span of 20 minutes. The Chinese government today issued its first-ever national red alert for fog, saying visibility would be as low as 160 feet.
Fake Yeezys fund terrorism, maybe
The counterfeit fashion industry often relies on child labor, and the profits have gone to fund terrorists, including the brothers who shot up Charlie Hebdo.
RIP Sharon
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings release their final music video created before Jones's death, a lovely claymation rendering of Charles Brown's "Please Come Home for Christmas."
Mariachi men of Yugoslavia
“For a short period, it seemed showbiz here was dominated by Mexicans and their local reps.” On the "Yu-Mex" music of Soviet-era Yugoslavia.
Los Angeles has a professional people walker
Adventures in entrepreneurialism: The professional people walker of Los Angeles.
Fifty comedians choose their favorite films
In case you need some laughs during the holidays, 50 comedians name their favorite comedy movies. Here's Stephen Merchant on Monkey Business: There’s a punk-like anarchy to the Marx Brothers that I really admire and find very funny. This is my favourite of their films. It’
Putting the dispossession of native peoples back on the map
"It is high time for non-Native Americans to come to terms with the fact that the United States is built on someone else’s land." Visualizing the 1.5 billion acres stolen from Native tribes makes the story of Native dispossession unforgettable.