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These are cut by lasers on mounting board. Fascinating and beautiful. Each map takes about 2 hours to cut.
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“He has so much to say he doth filibuster himself.”— John Dickerson of Slate imagining what Shakespeare would say about Mitch McConnell this week....
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Jane Abbott Lighty, 77, and Pete-e Petersen, 85, were the first couple to get married in Seattle, Washington last night after the...
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2012 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
This object, known as Messier 54, could be just another globular cluster, but this dense and faint...
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This is believed to be the only photo ever taken of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. And it’s for sale.
“We’re all Pussy Riot now.” Across the globe, protesters respond to the guilty verdict in the Pussy Riot case.
Strawberry Fields Forever: Beatles to blame for Russia’s drug problem, says Russian drug czar Yevgeny Bryun.
Bryun said Russia’s current rampant substance abuse problems can be traced right back to the Beatles’ use of psychedelics. In an conspiracy-laden explanation, Bryun recently said that “after the Beatles traveled to ashrams in India to expand their consciousness, they introduced the idea of changing your mental condition through drugs to the populace.”
Bryun went on to say that “When business understood that you can sell it all – pleasure and things that accompany it,” that was the beginning of Russia’s drug problem.
It’s a stretch. But Russia does have “one of the world’s most seriously deteriorating drug situations,” according to Louise Shelley, director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University. More.
(Photo: The Beatles — John, Paul, Ringo and George. By United Press International/Wikipedia)
China’s Guangzhou opera house perches on a patch of grass like a spaceship that’s just touched down. (Photo from “Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls” by Victoria Newhouse)
In the last decade, concert hall construction has been booming. And according to architectural historian Victoria Newhouse, these buildings are changing our experience of live music in unexpected ways. She singles out two that reflect the extremes of the concert hall boom: the nearly billion-dollar opera house in Oslo, Norway (where visitors can walk on a slanted roof that leads to water) and the brand new opera house in Guangzhou, China, designed by Zaha Hadid. More.
The global fusion band Rupa and the April Fishes is on tour, traveling and powering its shows on bicycles.
In this video, The World reporter Lonny Shavelson captured the atmosphere and sounds as the band was out on the road in Northern California.
Happy Friday — here’s a Hindi rock video promoting the new “Avengers” movie.
Hollywood is looking to maximize revenues in India, a major market for movies. And the way to do that in the land of Bollywood is through music. More.
Artisans hand craft mridangums — drums used in Indian classical music.
In Chennai, India, it’s what’s called “the December Season”. It’s a time when the city comes alive with thousands of concerts featuring Carnatic music, the classical music of South India. People from around the world flock there through January to hear it live.
From PRI’s The World.
A rap guide to evolution by Baba Brinkman — a Canadian rapper with a Master’s degree in English and a passion for Darwin.
In this interview on Living on Earth, Brinkman says the songs were a commission by scientist Mark Pallen, who fact-checked all the lyrics for scientific accuracy.
Watch this video of Brinkman performing “Performance, Feedback, Revision”:
We all have ambitious dreams growing up. For Neil McCormick it was being a world-famous rock star.
Unfortunately for Neil, it was his childhood friend Bono who became famous.
In the audio above, Neil tells his story, including the time Bono embarrassed himself in front of Bob Dylan.
“Bibi Shake Shake” features Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making his music video debut.
