Monday, October 07, 2013

Onward to the Edge (Symphony of Science)

melodysheep's Onward to the Edge featuring the auto-tuned voices of rockstar particle physicist Brian Cox, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, mashing up material from Tyson’s My Favorite Universe video course, Cox’s BBC series Wonders of the Solar System, Porco’s TED talk, and scenes from National Geographic‘s A Traveler’s Guide to the Planets

Friday, July 19, 2013

China's Hindu temples: A forgotten history

The Chedian shrine is just one of what historians believe may have been a network of more than a dozen Hindu temples built in Quanzhou by a community of Tamil traders who lived there during the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Harlem Shake (...explosion)

"Harlem Shake" is best known as dance move from the 1980s, a dance track by Baauer, or the biggest web video trend of the month. If you need to get caught up to speed, here's a playlist of some of the most-popular iterations of it from the past few days


The meme first started gaining traction last week and is attributed to a silly video from a vlogger named "Filthy Frank." Though it was another user named SunnyCoastSkate who then established the form we've become familiar with: the jump cut, the helmet, etc.
From there, the spin-offs spread very quickly. As of the 11th, around 12,000 "Harlem Shake" videos had been posted since the start of the month and they'd already been watched upwards of 44 million times. As you can see in the chart below, over 4,000 of these videos are being uploaded per day and that number is still likely on the rise
-- can we say "move over Gangnam Style" ;)

Friday, February 08, 2013

Friday, January 11, 2013

OVERVIEW

On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.



source: http://vimeo.com/55073825

Friday, January 04, 2013