Mexico renames island in honor of Cousteau. @ 24.21691,-109.802856
Don DeLillo‘s got a new short fiction piece in next week’s New Yorker.
The Large Hadron Collider finally worked.
Granted, it was only a low-power calibration run—pure bush league stuff. Stay tuned for the real, reality-ending stuff.
On a semi-related note, here’s your required viewing for the weekend: The Quiet Earth.
Yes, there will be an exam.
I imagine you might hear about it at the Academy Awards in March—it’s on the shortlist of Oscar contenders for Best Animated Short Film—but you should check out Eddie White and Ari Gibson’s The Cat Piano immediately.
After Kurt Vonnegut was rescued from a Nazi prison in Dresden, Germany—an experience that served as the basis of the final portion of Slaughterhouse-Five—he wrote a letter home to let everyone know where he had been.
Letters of Note has the whole thing.
Via 3quarksdaily
The Film Board of Canada has made Project Grizzly available for streaming.
The concept: a quixotic Canadian inventor has spent his adult life trying to make a suit of armor strong enough to allow him to fight a grizzly bear.
The NFB’s got a history of putting awesome films online. I posted several months ago about the excellent Carts of Darkness.
An animated visualization of the decline of empires. Via 3QuarksDaily.