Thursday, March 05, 2026
Big Take (2024)
Two criminals accidentally meet when they are on the run. A16mm short film by Alex Brooks.
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
The Return Of The Giant Tortoises
One hundred and eighty years after being declared extinct 158 captive-bred giant tortoises have been reintroduced to the Galapagos Islands. This video shows them taking their first steps on their native Floreana Island.
A micro-colony of these tortoises who were proven to share genetic ancestry with the Floreana tortoises were found living at Volcán Wolf (Wolf Volcano) on nearby Isabela Island. It appears that whalers had “stored” them where they could find them, but never came back for them.
Learn more about the Floreana Restoration Project.
Via Laughing Squid
Lumière, Le Cinema!
This is a trailer for a new documentary film by Thierry Frémaux that tells the story of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, whose invention of the cinematograph gave us a new way of looking at the world.
Still Standing
This contraption ejects a person off the back of a truck moving at highway speed in such a way that the human lands on their feet.
Tuesday, March 03, 2026
Trains Need Beauty Sleep Too
A Breakdown Of The Bombing Of Nagasaki
On August 9th, 1945 the US dropped a plutonium-fueled atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan. The explosion caused approximately 60,000–80,000 deaths, mainly of civilians, by the end of 1945. Here is a 3D animated breakdown of the bombing:
Monday, March 02, 2026
Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral founded in 673 in Cambridgeshire, England. It is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details and is a major site of pilgrimage and history. I am always amazed at how such magnificent structures could be built using nothing but strong faith, human strength and primitive tools.
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