Ken Burns Docs, Sopranos Blu-ray (Finally), Raspberry Pi [Deals]
Amazon has a great selection of Ken Burns' incredible documentaries discounted this week. We're not even going to attempt to recommend just one. [Ken Burns]
The collapse of the USSR left behind a haunting post-apocalyptic world
These photographs by Rebecca Litchfield
make it seem as if the apocalypse has come and gone and the world is in
complete ruins. Not quite. They're actually photographs of countries
and places that were a part of the former Soviet Union. The forgotten
decay is haunting.
Cool video: Ceramic head cuts one of the toughest metals in the world
That big block of metal is inconel, an extremely tough "austenitic nickel-chromium-based superalloy,"
one of the strongest metals known to humans, used in "in extreme
environments subjected to pressure and heat" like nuclear plants. How do
you cut such a hard thing? Let's watch a video.
These Decoy Insects Zap the Nasty Bugs That Try to Mate With Them
As they say, sex has consequences, even for male beetles. In their quest to eradicate an invasive beetle, scientists have created "femme fatale" decoys that lure the males in and zap 'em dead—just as the unsuspecting males think they might be getting it on.
This Glimpse Into the Mind of a World Class Chef Will Leave You Drooling
No narration, no breakaway interviews, just a
world-class chef developing and perfecting a brand new avant-garde menu
in his private food laboratory. El Bulli: Cooking in Progress is more Paul Ehrlich than Paul Beard, but you'll still find yourself drooling.
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Short film: The tough everyday life of an orc in Mordor
The everyday life of orcs in Mordor is tough. Any given day they
end up with a knife slicing their stomach, an arrow piercing their
jugular, or their head severed by who knows what. This short film tells
the story of an Orc in one of those complicated days.
Tim Cook Says Apple Has Never Shared Data: "You're Not Our Product"
As part of Apple's ongoing glasnost campaign, Tim Cook was on Charlie Rose last Friday. Part two airs tonight and it looks like it will be a lot meatier, just based on the clip released today:
Cook will apparently talk more about the role of privacy at Apple,
including their choice not to release or mine user metadata.
The cool and utterly horrifying pop icon illustrations by Ben Chen
When I see Ben Chen's illustrations
I imagine an endless orgy of movies, video games, comics, and random
pop culture icons going on inside his head. The resulting hangover
transforms into these hooraying but witty and elegant pieces of graphic
humor.
Listen to KCRW's Famously Eclectic Programming Any Time of Day
Did you know beloved LA radio station KCRW has an all-music broadcast and streaming service called Eclectic24?
A Brief History of Air Bags and The Future of Driverless Cars
"We've
lost more Americans on the highways than we've lost in all the wars
that we've ever fought," says Jim Hall, the former head of the National
Transportation Safety Board in a new video from the New York Times.
Scientists Used a Hitchcock Thriller to Measure Patients' Consciousness
Alfred
Hitchcock, our master of suspense, was incredibly good at manipulating
his audience—a fact that has now come in handy for neuroscientists. When
they screened a Hitchcock thriller for volunteers in a brain scanner, they found that brain activity of a man who has been in a vegetative state for 16 years was…
Photoshop Contest: What's Apple Really Shipping in Those iPhone Crates?
Earlier today, we got a glimpse inside one of the planes
carrying hundreds of thousands of shiny new smartphones all the way
across the Pacific, straight into our greedy little fingers. But—can we
ever really know what's hiding beneath those giant tarps? Yep! Because you're going to tell us.
These Richly Detailed Maps Give the Modern World a Victorian Twist
Wouldn't
we all love to live in a city where floating dirigibles shared the
horizon alongside the glass towers of our modern skylines? Such is the
wild world featured in the highly complex, geographically accurate
illustrations of Icelandic artist Kristjana S. Williams, whose maps are part of an exhibition for the…
Your iPhone Houses All These Chemical Reactions Every Single Day
Other
than the times we notice our battery bars inching towards the red or
our screens go silent, we usually don't think too about how it is our
phones actually function. But as a new video from the Reaction YouTube channel shows, there's a whole host of complex chemical reactions going on both during production and…
MIT Made a Smartphone Control a Computer With a Simple Touch
Have
you ever held your smartphone up to your laptop screen and thought
about how cool it would be if the two devices could work together,
physically? Well now, thanks to a team from the MIT Media Lab, they can.
New software lets you use your smartphone as an extra interface for a
computer, and it looks awesome.
Windows 9 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know
Windows 8 has been limping through its existence for just about two years now, and despite the fact that its continual updates have improved it a fair bit, the numbers aren't encouraging.
Microsoft knows this, and the rumors surrounding Windows 9 show that
it's going to be a move back to more familiar territory.…
The Loud, Messy, XTREME Graphic Design of the 90s
Today we learned that popular 1990s soda/xtreme sports pump-up drink Surge is back: Amazon will now deliver a 12-pack to your house for $14.
If you hadn't thought about Surge since the late 1990s, it was probably
a trip to see that distinctive green can again. And it brought up a
question: Who designed this little gem…
Wild Camping in Oslo (And Everywhere Else I Go)
Oslo,
Norway is one of the world's most expensive cities, but it
simultaneously offers the world's cheapest accommodations. Cheap in this
case means free.
Goodbye space shuttle carrier—and thank you for being awesome
You are looking at the second of the two Boeing 747 space shuttle carriers
being taken to its resting place at the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark, in
Palmdale, California. After two decades ferrying the space shuttles
across the country, the two legendary aircraft are now retired.
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