Watch: Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
"It's like the '2001' of boxes." -Jon Ronson, commenting on one of Kubrick's custom-made boxes
"It's like the '2001' of boxes." -Jon Ronson, commenting on one of Kubrick's custom-made boxes
All about the "patron saint of geeks."
"Maybe the physically impossible promise of 'unlimited breadsticks' haunts my skeptical mind." -Johannes Grenzfurthner
"No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived." -James Randi
"There are only three types of scenes: negotiations, seductions, and fights." -Mike Nichols
To the moon!
A zoom through the universe...and inside ourselves.
Humans have a long history of clever ideas that go horribly wrong.
"My father, you see, interested me in patterns at the very beginning, and then later in things, like we would turn over stones and watch the ants carry the little white babies down deeper into the holes. We would look at worms. We’d go for walks and we’d
Tonight, a PBS documentary explaining much more than Edison's lightbulb.
A series of ordinary days near the South Pole, setting up camp for the "summer."
You need this.
Paul Erd?s was a mathematician. In addition to authoring significant papers himself, he created a series of Erd?s problems in which he offered (often small) cash prizes for solutions to difficult and/or significant mathematical challenges. He also had a
Cheeky engineer Tim Hunkin (of Secret Life of Machines fame) invented the Autofrisk, a device that gently gropes the user in exchange for a few coins. (In the U.K. apparently one cannot get this experience for free at local airports.) The Autofrisk is o
Accountant and Cosmos aficionado Callum Sutherland has remixed the landmark Carl Sagan documentary Cosmos into a "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" style video series called Imagination. You have to have Flash installed, and YouTube Annotations enabled for it t
YouTube isn't just for copyright infringement -- here are 11 documentary films legally available on YouTube in their entirety. They're funded with ads, and are shown in roughly DVD (480p) quality. Be aware that some films move in and out of the free cat
Today on Network Awesome (warning: video auto-plays!), Heavy Metal Week continues with the classic documentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, The Metal Years. Directed by Penelope Spheeris (who later directed Wayne's World), the film has b