Kids by MGMT played on iPhones.
Daito Manabe used a system that converts music to electrical impulses and wired up his friends’ faces to twitch in time to the song.
Frostie dancing to Ray Charles’ “Shake Your Tail Feather.” I really do believe this bird is dancing!
In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers working on the Supernova Cosmology Project report finding a new kind of something that they cannot make any sense of.
Are you smarter than a goose? Sure you are — one on one. But when it comes to working efficiently, you and your colleagues can’t touch the gaggle. According to author Ken Thompson, geese and other animals that naturally form groups have a lot to teach us about business. In a theory he calls organizational biomimetics, Thompson lays out the principles underlying nature’s management strategies. So what can you learn from a bird or an ant? Take a gander.
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Predicting the future of the English language is rather easy, in the short term. The odds are, over the next few decades its New World dialects are going to gain increasing global dominance, accelerating the demise of thousands of less fortunate languages but at long last allowing a single advertisement to reach everybody in the world. Then after a century or two of US dominance some other geopolitical grouping will gain the ascendancy, everyone will learn Chechen or Patagonian or whatever it is, and history will continue as usual. Ho hum. But apart from that… what might the language actually look like in a thousand years time?
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Think it’s impossible to see four-dimensional objects? These videos will show you otherwise.
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Apparently, University of Duisburg-Essen researchers in the Czech Republic have discovered that cows have a magnetic sense and typically arrange themselves to point North. They tend to point in the same direction when eating or resting. The researchers studied deer in the Czech Republic and looked at thousands of images of cattle on Google Earth. Strange indeed.
Deep in the forests of Alsace, adventurous explorers can marvel at this strange installation that looks very much like what an invisibility cloak over a secret ship might look like in 100 years. No it’s not a Romulan craft — it’s actually a sculpture made of stones, glue and mirrors by Michel De Broin.
A post-apocalyptic tale of a man trying to get his son to safety.
