Machine reads through closed books
MIT researchers develop a new computational imaging method can read through a closed book: by identifying letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.
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The French
In honor of US Open singles wins this weekend by Angelique Kerber and Stan Wawrinka—surely the only champ to sport a Samuel Beckett tattoo—it's fun to re-watch this bonkers-good, totally non-topical gem of tennis appreciation, William Klein's documentary about the 1981
Tattoos 4 U
A young woman is covered in tattoos and her parents have no idea, so she made a video—complete with choir—to show her parents what she's been hiding. Made by Bianca Giaever for This American Life. There's plenty of Giaever's work in the
One Hundred Acres Underground
Swedish filmmaker Petter Ringbom takes us on a tour of the Lowline. It's a former trolley terminal under the streets of New York's Lower East Side, that's being turned into a one-hundred acre park—the world's first park that's
Gentle Angry People
In response to Orlando, America's deadliest mass shooting, "We are a gentle angry people" indeed.
Elegize the Arctic
Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi elegizes the Arctic from a floating piano at the edge of a melting glacier.
How to Turn Pixels Into Pulitzers
An unbearable video about the “future of media”—complete with endless buzzwords and nonsense—is not, in fact, a joke. From the Observer: Earlier this month Michael Ferro, chairman of Tribune Publishing, announced that the legacy media group was rebranding as tronc, or 'Tribune Online Content' (though the
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Our Glorious Leader
Finally, the Japanese Donald Trump commercial we’ve all been waiting for.
Onbashira Matsuri
Footage from Japan’s Onbashira festival—reputed to have continued, uninterrupted, for 1,200 years—where young men prove their mettle by riding enormous logs down a hill.