This has been around for a couple years, but it's the first time we've seen it. From Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto: A beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project&
Can you slap a furnace/HVAC filter on a standard box fan to create a decent air purifier? You can! I taped a 20-by-20-inch Honeywell FPR 9 filter to a Lasko 20-inch box fan and ran that combo through our standard 35-minute, five-match test
Footage of a vehicle powered completely by ambient electric fields, as per Nikola Tesla's original wireless electricity concept. See also: his Wardenclyffe Tower.
While we're remembering random recent videos about happiness, how about the doctor who quit his practice to pursue rollerblading very, very slowly? There's actually been a "Free Slomo" campaign during the pandemic.
For all the reasons we don't need to mention, this video gave us a lot of joy to rewatch the other day. As its creator Aleksander Gamme remembers, "This is day 86 on my full return South Pole Expedition 2011/2012. I`m quite hungry and about
Aerial footage of highway systems turned surreal and hypnotic. (Strobe warning.)
A short documentary by Canadian filmmaker Dominique van Olm about people who remove WWI munitions from a stretch of France known as the Zone Rouge. Via aeon
Your weekly isolation wanderlust: a collection of old home movies of car and motorcycle races.
In Steamboat Willie, a house threatens to flatten Buster Keaton, and it was said the margin of error was only a few inches. According to James Metz's Mathematics Teacher, that's not quite correct. Keaton was 5 feet 5 inches tall; if that the “hinge” of the
For your weekend homebound wanderlust: A bikepacking adventure around New Zealand's Te Waipounamu South Alps.
