Andy Rehfelt’s sweet smooth jazz cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” See, if Metallica sounded like this, I’d listen to...

Mar 23, 2010

Filmmaker Cristóbal Vila presents a breathtaking series of animations showing how mathematic principles underlie nature.

Mar 22, 2010

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Mar 21, 2010

The “Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine” is a machine that allows you break a dish or two until you feel better. All you have to do is insert a dollar, and a piece of china will slowly move towards you until it falls to the bottom and breaks into a million pieces. Want to do it again? Insert another dollar. (via today and...

Mar 20, 2010

“My brother hiding on his balcony, playing completely out of tune on his old trumpet while a band is marching past his house on Norways National Day, 17th of...

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Mar 19, 2010

Every time I have put this on at least three new conversions occur, where the listeners go on to permanently install this woman's music on their stereo. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou is a nun currently living in Jerusalem. She grew up as the daughter of a prominent Ethiopian intellectual, but spent much of her young life in exile...

Mar 17, 2010

Wondermark. Embiggen.

Mar 17, 2010

There was a monk from Rome who lived at Scetis near the church. Having lived twenty five years at Scetis, he had acquired the gift of insight and became famous. One of the great Egyptians heard about him and came to see him...

Mar 16, 2010

In many cultures in the Middle East, the sight of the hint of anything at all about woman’s figure or form is highly eroticized, where in our culture we are desensitized. How does that compare to the high hierarchical, liturgical churches and the low churches in their differing treatment of liturgy and sacrament?