Friday, January 24, 2025
Curiosity and Control - a Documentary
Why do we create zoos? Is it a curiosity about the world around us and our place in it, or a need to dominate and give order to a realm that we’d otherwise find chaotic and threatening?
(Aeon Videos)
The Car Radio Of The Future 1971
This tiny radio automatically tuned itself to the strongest signal, eliminating the need to frustratingly retune as you travel.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
UK Opinions About Various Countries
The map above is based off of a Q4 2024 Yougov Survey asking British adults if they’d ever heard of the country and if they had, whether or not they had a positive opinion about it.
When I travel internationally lately I often get treated in a cool fashion by people who assume I’m an American. Once I clarify that I’m Canadian I get a much warmer reaction.
More: Brilliant Maps
Follow The Leader
They act like they've never seen a muskrat before, and then all 37 of them follow it down to the water.
“Who’s that guy?”“I don’t know but he seems to know where he’s going.”
Little Big World 2025
A compilation of clips from previous Little Big World episodes, including Sudan, Hallstatt, Ore Mountains, Melbourne, Doha, Dubai, Kyiv, Chernobyl, Bergen, Moldova, Venice, Garmisch Partenkirchen, Munich, Tampere, Pyongyang, Madeira, Alaska, Svedish Lapland, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Rumania and Bulgaria in only 90 seconds...
A time-lapse & tilt-shift & aerial video by Joerg Daiber.
Making a Light-up Firefly from Electronic Waste
Artist Zak Miskry created a larger-than-life firefly that lights up like the real thing.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Goodnight Moon Stamps!
The United States Postal Service is issuing stamps based on the much loved children’s classic, Goodnight Moon, written by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd, and first published in 1947. I’m sure they will bring back fond memories for children and their parents who read this soothing story at bedtime.
(Kottke)
Odd
Director Hiroshi Takagishi takes the organic forms of succulent plants and uses CGI to imagine how they might move if they weren’t stationary organisms. (The Awesomer)
Hand Hooked Rugs of Sleeping Dogs
Old school animal skin rugs are cruel so textiles artist Emily O’Leary creates amazingly realistic hand-hooked rugs of sleeping dogs that are totally humane.
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