The Conditional Orchestra uses the current weather conditions in a specific location to compose delightful tunes: https://tinyurl.com/y8ch6wxd
A cool presentation on how cameras work, including interactive visuals to help demonstrate how each part works: https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
The dialect of England’s Black Country (known as one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution) area is perhaps one of the last examples of early English that’s still spoken today: https://tinyurl.com/ydfh23pd
I used to work at a store that sold all kinds of imported goods, including some food items, and the price of our vanilla beans would fluctuate wildly depending on what sort of climatic or political upheavals were going on in Madagascar at any given time. Why Madagascar, you ask?: https://tinyurl.com/y3lzqo2q
Turns out that you can grow your own opals at home, though it’s not exactly “easy”: https://tinyurl.com/y93eq2jf
13 year old Christopher Walken in his very first film role, playing a boy who can see through walls: https://tinyurl.com/y96qppgd
The nature-inspired sculptures of Selva Aparicio (I really like the carved rug): https://tinyurl.com/y87rfq23
New analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism presents evidence that the mechanism’s front-dial ring is a 354-day lunar calendar, not a 365-day calendar as previously supposed: https://tinyurl.com/y3rv82qn
Internet user ranks their least favorite bodies of water: https://tinyurl.com/ybq7whut
When scientists give a new thing a name, it’s often some boring old Latin that most of us will kind of ignore in favor of a “common name”. But in some cases, scientists do indeed have a great deal of fun with scientific naming: https://tinyurl.com/ydz3rd3b
Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment that lets you drag characters around to create your own unique opera performance: https://tinyurl.com/y8yvhbaa
In the 1640s, the Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland effectively made many long-held Christmas traditions illegal, and it went down about as well as you might imagine – ultimately helping to reignite the English Civil War: https://tinyurl.com/y7wcmpj3
Rare, behind-the-scenes look at ‘The Empire Strikes Back’: https://tinyurl.com/y86stc6v
Handy tips on how to not get murdered in one of those quaint English villages where people always seem to get murdered: https://tinyurl.com/yd5gfm4d
Artist Fiona Tang creates flowing and intense murals (and other art): https://tinyurl.com/ybxn4es8
So apparently in Elizabethan England it was legal to kidnap children for conscription into the British royal children’s choir: https://tinyurl.com/ya78zmym
A cool little video that demonstrate the different gaits dogs use. It’s intended to help animators and artists, but it’s also cool for anyone who just likes to learn how animals do stuff: https://tinyurl.com/yd8hvgap
Materiom offer open-source recipes for making raw material, like bioplastics, from natural ingredients: https://tinyurl.com/ycya38ly
A selection of the best science photos of 2020: https://tinyurl.com/y9hbll27
Scientists discover a cricket that makes it’s own megaphones: https://tinyurl.com/yb9w8fsh
If you love bizarre monsters AND love embroidered patches, you will love Hannah Comstock: https://tinyurl.com/y6u9lbet
“I am proud to present my latest project – the Astropanel. This program will help you decide when you should bring out your telescope“: https://tinyurl.com/y7kso4jz
Inventionis Mater is an Italian duo who interpret the music of Frank Zappa on classical musical instruments: https://tinyurl.com/y7c3jsul
“When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior. From the Kutch District of western India to the northern city of Panipat, garment recyclers turn into yarn the huge bales of clothes that come from people and places distinctly strange”: https://tinyurl.com/jozjpvd
(Gif source: https://tinyurl.com/yb2yvlbb)
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