Sam Harris speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID pandemic. They discuss the evidence of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, media and academic censorship of... continue reading
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YouTube description: Artists have abandoned artworks for many reasons throughout history. Guest host John Green shares some of his favorite unfinished artworks and explains why they resonate with him... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 417 views • 9:42YouTube description: It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years before the safety elevator... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 731 views • 5:10"... Step aboard Discovery and explore the space shuttle in 360. National Air and Space Museum and Google Arts & Culture have teamed up to bring a piece of Hubble’s history to life like never before.... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 10 months ago • 18 views • 6:55(H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 216 views • 6:55YT: The Forbes Pigment Collection, at the Harvard Art Museums, is a collection of pigments, binders, and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: so they can tell originals from restorations... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 446 views • 5:13The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 10 months ago • 624 views • 2:50YouTube description: A look at the colorful history of sci-fi book covers
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 weeks ago • 483 views • 6:29Tiffany Haddish tells the story of Rose Valland, an assistant curator in Paris who helped recover thousands of works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
posted by newtboy 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 255 views • 5:40YouTube description: Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,292 views • 12:21‘I was stunned when the pieces started falling into place,’ recalls specialist Howard Dixon of the moment an unassuming folio of photographs was presented to him in a restaurant in Texas earlier this year. ... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,174 views • 3:34YouTube Description: View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-mathematics-of-sidewalk-illusions-fumiko-futamura Have you ever come across an oddly stretched image on the sidewalk, only... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 21 views • 4:55YouTube: In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 518 views • 3:42We have a very special episode today! Brian Nagel, from Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY, takes us on a tour of The 1803 Walter Grieve's Brewery located on the site. Brewing beer played... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 395 views • 9:54YouTube description: For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 508 views • 9:18The guy narrating is a bit stiff, but the info was interesting Via YouTube: Watch and listen to this insightful story of how Da Vinci created the Last Supper.
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