A vegetarian philosopher doesn't know if it's wrong to eat meat
For this past summer's Popper Seminars, Oxford moral philosopher and vegetarian Jeff McMahan runs through the arguments for eating meat—for the sake of animals, pigs for example.
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A Night at the Garden
Footage from the night of Feb. 20, 1939, when 20,000 Nazi sympathizers attended the German American Bund's “Americanization” rally at Madison Square Garden.
Thirty days in a canoe.
For your wanderlust, or the next time you're stuck eating a sandwich at your desk: four guys take a month-long, thousand-kilometre canoe journey over the Canadian shield to Hudson Bay.
A short film where M.C. Escher meets Rube Goldberg
Some surreality—and a surreal level of detail—from artist Ugo Gattoni to sharpen your mind. Good morning.
The Voynich manuscript has never been cracked.
The Voynich manuscript—written in an unknown language, carbon dated to around 1420, studied by endless cryptographers, and quite possibly a hoax—has never been cracked. H/t the Browser.
Nobel winner Richard Thaler on what it means to nudge.
Here's economist Richard Thaler, who just won the Nobel Prize, explaining what a "nudge" is—he uses his own success as a good example—and why it's impossible to avoid meddling.
Eminem starts a rap battle with Trump.
Recorded for last night's BET Awards, Eminem raps a long Trump takedown, with plenty of references to recent news.
A family films their escape from Northern California fires
Footage from a family evacuating a wildfire in Sonoma County.
How to make undulating forms
Granted, this seriously sets off my trypophobia, but these undulating forms and their piano accompaniment are rather nice.
Competitive bird singing is a thing.
A short documentary on Thailand's bird-singing competitions. From Clive Bell's Wire article on the subject: Many of us probably feel that natural birdsong, encountered in the wild, is a particularly beautiful form of sound, and needs protecting, rather than improving via human intervention. But there