- A very big fight over a very small language, or, the war for Romansh
- A fascinating profile of the Vatican’s official astronomer. Quoth: “Scientists at the observatory are liberated from the secular scholar’s pursuit of tenure, grant money, and commercial investment; moreover, the Jesuits, having taken a vow of poverty, have extremely low living costs.”
- The Gremlins Museum
- How museums decide what to save in a disaster
- “Miranda: the Movie”, a weird digital tour of the Uranian moon made soon after Voyager 2’s flyby
- Stimulating your inner ear to stop you from getting motion-sick in VR. God, i love living in the Near Future™.
- The thirteen-year quest to simulate an entire worm
- The Shot at Dawn Memorial
- Twelve tips to spot an otter in the wild
- James Cameron on Avatar 3, rat resuscitation, and VFX’s artificially intelligent future
- Legendary algorithm pull: Utopian Socialism Jeopardy!
- Live footage of an abandoned house taken over by raccoons
- Weasel war dance
- “Cæsar in the Kremlin”, or, the story of an unusual Latin compendium of Vladimir Putin’s speeches
Those They Might Be Giants children's albums were a huge part of my childhood. I had the CDs & DVDs for Here Comes the ABCs, Here Comes the 123s, and Here Comes Science and watched them a ton! Happy to know you love them too.
@320 Truth be told, whenever i see a car with a green number plate out in the wild, “Electric Car” still always plays in my head. :-)