How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs
Open Culture
How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs
In one of his forced journeys into the past, he falls for a strangely familiar-looking woman who convinces him not to return to his own time period...
Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare. The infinite monkey theorem states that illiterate primates could write great literature with enough time, but the amount of time needed is much longer than the lifespan of the universe
New Scientist
Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare
The infinite monkey theorem states that illiterate primates could write great literature with enough time, but the amount of time needed is much lo...
A candy engineer explains the science behind the Snickers bar
Ars Technica
A candy engineer explains the science behind the Snickers bar
How the airy nougat and chewy caramel is built.
The Hand: An Anti-Totalitarian Animation, Banned for Two Decades
Open Culture
The Hand: An Anti-Totalitarian Animation, Banned for Two Decades & Now Considered One of the Greatest Animations (1965)
For obvious reasons, most art produced under oppressive regimes comes off as painstakingly inoffensive. For equally obvious reasons, the rare works...
MAGA thief stealing Harris-Walz signs is tracked down and busted thanks to Apple AirTag (video) https://boingboing.net/2024/10/22/maga-thief-stealing-harris-walz-signs-is-tracked-down-and-busted-thanks-to-apple-airtag-video.html
Texas Commissioners Court forces librarians to reclassify Wampanoag history book as ‘fiction.’ The book in question is a nonfiction history book by Linda Coombs titled Colonization and the Wampanoag Story. Coombs is an author and historian from the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah.
The Mary Sue
Texas Commissioners Court forces librarians to reclassify Wampanoag history book as ‘fiction’
The Montgomery County Commissioners Court in Texas recently ordered librarians to reclassify a Wampanoag history book as 'fiction.'
Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)
Open Culture
Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)
In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republica...
23andMe CEO says she can 'land this plane' after the entire board resigns
Quartz
23andMe CEO says she can 'land this plane' after the entire board resigns
23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki says the struggling genetic testing company can be saved — but it will be "complicated"
‘Grifters gotta grift‘: Russell Brand’s $250 snake oil – sorry, amulet – will totally shield you from logic, reason, and common sense
The Mary Sue
‘Grifters gotta grift‘: Russell Brand's $250 snake oil - sorry, amulet - will totally shield you from logic, reason, and common sense | The Mary Sue
Russell Brand has multiple sexual abuse allegations against him, so he's switched to being a pathetic grifter.
How Marie Curie Helped a Generation of Women Break into Science
Scientific American
The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists
Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science