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January-March 2009

20 March 2009
3:22pm

Political Instability Index

Compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

19 March 2009
12:40pm

Sweet, Sexy, Cute, Funny...

How evolution affects perception.

16 March 2009
10:16am

Office Grand Prix

Watch till the end.

14 March 2009
3:20am

Watch the World Deteriorate

A real-time simulation showing each country's CO2 emissions, birth rate, and death rate. Move your cursor across the map to see who's doing what. Well presented and worth seeing.

13 March 2009
9:40am

What Does One Trillion Dollars Look Like?

Represented by a collection of $100 bills.

7 March 2009
8:01pm

Travel Back Through Time

Upload a photo and find out how you might have looked as an early hominid.

7 March 2009
7:56pm

Hudson River Plane Landing

Re-creation of the near-disastrous landing of a passenger plane in the Hudon River, with audio of traffic control exchanges.

26 February 2009
4:40pm

The Thatcher Effect

An intriguing illusion. Enough to make your head spin.

25 February 2009
8:06pm

Driving into a Dust Storm

A couple drive into a dust storm between Wilcania and Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia.

21 February 2009
9:26am

Canada Goose Terrorises Man and Dog

A man and his dog are in a fishing boat when a Ganada goose takes exception to their presence...

18 February 2009
8:09pm

The Crisis of Wisdom

We admire brilliance, but wisdom is in short supply. In this TED lecture, Barry Schwartz explains why a society gone mad with bureaucracy is in need of practical wisdom.

12 February 2009
2:46pm

What News Anchors Do During Commercial Breaks

WGN News anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange have been together for many years. They've devised this sit-down dance routine to kill time during the breaks. It's good.

5 Febuary 2009
1:27am

The Great Office War

An epic encounter.

1 February 2009
08:46am

Stop-motion Music Video

Wonderfully conceived Oren Lavie music video.

30 January 2009
10:28am

Mexican Wrestling

You won't see this at the Olympics:

30 January 2009
7:59am

London From the Sky at Night

Some remarkable pictures taken from a Eurocopter by photographer Jason Hawkes.

29 January 2009
12:58pm

Online Newspapers in 1981?

This 1981 news report has early home computer users reading their morning newspapers online - before the Internet began. How Times have changed...

26 January 2009
8:08pm

Cat Solves Printer Problem

A cat's approach to problem solving.

25 January 2009
6:38pm

Morphing US Presidents

All 44 US presidents morphing in succession. Intriguing.

25 January 2009
2:05pm

Amazing Inauguration Day Panorama

To quote the photographer, David Bergman:

"I made a panoramic image showing the nearly two million people who watched President Obama's inaugural address. To do so, I clamped a Gigapan Imager to the railing on the north media platform about six feet from my photo position. The Gigapan is a robotic camera mount that allows me to take multiple images and stitch them together, creating a massive image file.

My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.

Use the controls to zoom and pan around the photo. You can also double click to zoom in and double click again to get even closer."

Full screen version.

How it was done.

23 January 2009
8:06pm

Early 20th Century Film of London Street Life

Fascinating glimpses of life from a hundred years ago.

22 January 2009
1:17pm

Inauguration Day Crowds

This satellite view of the National Mall between the Capitol and the Washington Monument gives an idea of how large the crowds were.

21 January 2009
7:39am

Folding the Yoshimoto Cube

The Yoshimoto cube, invented by Japanese Naoki Yoshimoto, consists of up of eight interconnected cubes. It unfolds itself in a continuing cycle. Remarkable stuff.

20 January 2009
12:22pm

When someone says, "Let's have a drink..."

20 January 2009
12:17pm

The Global Corporate Network

A visual representation of corporate ownership around the world:

13 January 2009
3:49pm

One man choral group performs the Legend of Zelda theme

And he plays the violin. This is his own rendition of the themes from the Legend of Zelda game composed by Koji Kondo.

10 January 2009
8:42pm

Songsmith

Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer's voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC's microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Download a trial from Microsoft:

7 January 2009
3:15pm

Wingsuit Base Jumping

As if there weren't enough scary sports, now comes base jumping in specially designed suits that allow the wearer to soar like an eagle. Heart-stopping to watch these guys.

4 January 2009
7:10am

Breakup of the USA

Russian professor Igor Panarin predicts the breakup of the US in the year 2010. Here's how he thinks it will end up. (Note to Sarah Palin: Instead of just seeing Russia from your window, it looks like you'll be standing in it.)

3 January 2009
1:36pm

The Real Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives

Jonathan Haidt studies how -- and why -- we evolved to be moral. Here he shows us in an entertaining way the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right, or centre.

Learn about your own morality while contributing to scientific research on moral psychology:

2 January 2009
6:43pm

Amazing Animal Videos

Three to choose from:

2 January 2009
6:38pm

Ennio Marchetto Theatre Trailer

The Living Cartoon, the world famous quick change comedian.