A Danish art group stuck five musicians underwater and told them to bring their instruments. "There are a lot of challenges underwater," says Between Music co-founder Robert Karlsson, "especially with acoustics. The percussion instruments are very sensitive, so if you just move them even ten centimeters
Some Oregon farmers were losing a quarter of their crop to avians like the American robin and European starling, so they set up an automated laser system that can frighten birdy bandits without harming them.
The booming popularity of bananas throughout the 20th century is to blame for a disease epidemic that places their future in doubt.
A lovely and intriguing new symphonic track and video: "Doujiri" by Sugai Ken.
Whatever can fit in a box can fit in this box by Andrew Myers, who also created "Harmonic Oscillator," which we love.
The Jefferson Grid—Thomas Jefferson's method of segmenting newly acquired US territory into individual square miles—animated using images from Google Earth.
Tournament of Books Commentator and TMN Contributor Kevin Guilfoile has co-written a new movie, Chasing the Blues, about two rival record collectors in search of a legendary blues recording. The film is currently making the festival rounds, including the Austin Film Festival on Oct. 28 and Nov. 1 and
This video of Pyongyang from the air was shot by Singaporean photographer Aram Pan with clearance from North Korea's government. While some of Pan's material was—predictably—deleted by officials, he was allowed to keep around 90 percent of what he'd shot.
Road "zippers" can change the configuration of lanes on a highway that has highly variable traffic patterns, like the Golden Gate Bridge. Plus 99% Invisible has a collection of other pleasing videos of large road machinery, like cone layers and bridge droppers.
This is the story of a Soviet street dog named Laika—in her own words, as it were—who went to space aboard Sputnik 2 and became the first animal to orbit Earth.
