My friends at Reboot, the Jewish arts and culture nonprofit, are hosting a free Passover concert stream today at 2pm PDT / 5pm EDT with a killer lineup! The show,… Read the rest of the article: Today! Free Passover concert stream with Nicki Bluhm, Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi All-Stars), Jeremiah Lockwood, and Zach Rogue (Rogue Wave)
The Highcycle – Social Distance BikeWatch this video on YouTube Colin Furze modified his bicycle to maintain social distance on the road. "I'm keeping 2m apart vertically," he writes.
As I posted last week, thieves smashed a glass door at the Singer Laren museum near Amsterdam and stole Vincent van Gogh's oil painting “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in… Read the rest of the article: How to find a stolen Van Gogh
D-Wave Systems opened up free cloud access to its quantum computing resources for researchers responding to COVID-19. They're also enlisting their staff, partners, and customers to help others get up… Read the rest of the article: Free access to quantum computers for COVID-19 researchers
UK wedding photographer Chris Wallace is on lockdown like so many of us. To keep his creativity alive, he staged and photographed a fantastic LEGO wedding. You can see the… Read the rest of the article: Locked-down wedding photographer shoots beautiful LEGO wedding
Why NASA quarantined the Apollo 11 astronautsWatch this video on YouTube Right after astronauts Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins splashed down in… Read the rest of the article: When NASA quarantined the astronauts
The Kinkade Family Foundation turned up this Thomas Kincade unseen masterpiece "Untitled (Toilet Paper)," c. 1978, oil on canvas, 8" x 10, and have issued it as a puzzle and… Read the rest of the article: Thomas Kinkade painting of toilet paper available as puzzle and print for charity
Desmond Dekker performs Israelites, skinhead girls dancing to reggae – 1970s LondonWatch this video on YouTube This vintage clip of the great Desmond Dekker (1941-2006) performing "Israelites" to a live… Read the rest of the article: Wonderful vintage clip of mod girls dancing to Desmond Dekker's "Israelites"
JB Rhine (1895-1980), the founder of parapsychology, spent the bulk of his career attempting to scientifically investigate ESP, psychokinesis, and clairvoyance at Duke University. While Rhine debunked numerous claims, he… Read the rest of the article: Tessie and Binnie, the US Army's psychic dogs
In 2018, Barry Lawrence Ruderman, a rare map dealer from California, bought a folder of documents and blueprints related to the Statue of Liberty. What they didn't realize is that… Read the rest of the article: Recently discovered: Eiffel's drawings for a slightly different Statue of Liberty
Swedish artist Daniel Björk is the mad mind behind these wonderfully evil visions of classic horror films reimagined as Disney's Wonderful World of Reading vintage children's books. My wish upon… Read the rest of the article: Artist reimagines classic horror films as vintage Disney children's books
Eating Utensils reminds me of a site from the early Web, a minimally-designed collection of fascinating information about something we use every day but mostly ignore. The site has pages… Read the rest of the article: Website all about eating utensils
The majestic image below of the Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation," captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, has become an iconic astronomical photograph. It depicts the visible light,… Read the rest of the article: The Eagle Nebula's astonishing Pillars of Creation, now in infrared
The Ten Commandments 1923 FilmWatch this video on YouTube In celebration of Passover, I suggest watching The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic silent film version of the biblical… Read the rest of the article: Watch the epic silent film The Ten Commandments (1923)
Translating abstract scientific data into sound can give researchers new insight into the complexities of the phenomena they are studying. MIT materials science professor and musician Markus Buehler, who has… Read the rest of the article: Scientists translate the novel coronavirus structure into beautiful music
FOX IN SOX | Dr. Seuss Raps over Dr. Dre BeatsWatch this video on YouTube Director and actor Wes Tank drops some Dr. Seuss knowledge over Dr. Dre instrumentals. From… Read the rest of the article: Delightful Dr. Seuss rapping over Dr. Dre beats
While people talk a lot about what they see in their dreams, and the visual language of dreams is well-studied by psychologists, what we hear when dreaming is rarely discussed… Read the rest of the article: What do we hear when we dream?
Tonight's full Moon is a "Pink Moon" aka "Passover Moon" aka "Paschal Moon" aka "Hanuman Jayanti" aka supermoon, the largest full moon of 2020. From NASA: The term "supermoon" was… Read the rest of the article: Tonight is a supermoon, the largest full Moon this year
Henry Rollins, the hardest working punk in show business, has launched a new long-form streaming radio show via KCRW in Los Angeles! The four-hour first episode of The Cool Quarantine… Read the rest of the article: Punk legend Henry Rollins has a new long-form streaming radio show
LifeFitness Exertainment System Promotional Video (1994)Watch this video on YouTube In 1994, exercise equipment maker Life Fitness partnered with Nintendo on the Life Fitness Exertainment System with games designed for… Read the rest of the article: Before Peloton, there was the Nintendo/Life Fitness Exertainment bike
