Swim with sparkling disco balls of sardines
Happening as we speak: Divers are swimming with sparkling, shimmering disco balls of sardines in the Philippines.
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What it's like to captain a freighter through the Welland Canal
For your Wednesday armchair traveling: What it's like to captain a freighter through the Welland Canal (h/t coudal).
Liz Spayd and Tucker Carlson
In the video, good ol' frat boy Tucker Carlson goads the New York Times's public editor into castigating some Times reporters for allegedly criticizing Trump (one was merely tweeting a link to an essay his wife wrote). Here's Chris Lehmann: The real problem here is
Top classical musicians pick their favorite Mozart
Now that it's 225 years after Mozart's death, the Guardian asked a bunch of top classical musicians for their favorite pieces. Here's pianist and writer Alfred Bende (who's playing in the video): The “Jeunehomme” piano concerto K271 is Mozart’s first great
Larry Bird was the greatest basketball player of his era
If you have in-laws who love Boston basketball, or just Larry Bird, this is the video they're emailing you right now—and for good reason.
"I thought they'd pay attention to it. But in reality, they weren't."
An extensive Oregonian investigation finds that thousands of National Guard armories around the country—used for family gatherings and deployments—are highly contaminated with lead picked up from firing ranges and training courses by ventilation systems and spread throughout the facilities.
LEGO uses Strain Wave Gearing
And you thought you built complicated Lego systems back in the day? A "great ball contraption (GBC) module" that uses strain wave gearing. As the creator explains, "I used wave motion of the flex spline to transfer the balls in order to use the strain wave gearing
a short film about the growth of white silver and black lead
Science is beautiful: With footage captured by a microscope, a short film about the growth of white silver and black lead during metal displacement reactions.
big guns kill more
Larger and larger—and thus deadlier and deadlier—guns are being used in crimes and homicides in many large American cities. They're likely contributing to the increasing violence rate in places like Chicago, Milwaukee, and Baltimore.
Dispatch from the Outer Hebrides
The calming juxtaposition of sheep, beaches, 19th- and 21st-century technology colors this very short documentary on the tradition of Harris tweed, a heritage wool protected by an Act of Parliament and only spun on these islands off Scotland.