Last night, some bizarre swirls appeared in the sky over Norway.
re: The Bhopal gas tragedy
Something I can really get behind: in anticipation of every year’s Oscar season, more and more Hollywood studios are publishing screenplays for award contenders online for free download.
Rope of Silicone has been keeping a list of links.
You’ll recognize the following six films: 9, District 9, Napoleon Dynamite, The Evil Dead, Bottle Rocket and Boogie Nights.
You may not know, however, that they were all originally filmed as shorts by amateur filmmakers—all of whom began their professional careers by turning the short films in question into features.
Check out the roundup—with embedded YouTube videos—on Mental_Floss.
Research to take to heart. While slacking off may be pushing it, neuroscience suggests that, perversely, workahaulics can maximize their output over time by working somewhat less often.
Via The Morning News
See also: 30 Minutes a Day.
It’s never easy reading posthumous writing from writers who killed themselves. Your worst tendencies come out to play. Your brain works overtime looking for clues.
Here’s All That, a piece by David Foster Wallace that will be published in next week’s New Yorker.
If the temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background (read: the universe) could be represented by a finite amount of water—and it can; as far as we know, the universe is finite—would drinking all of it at once be a danger to science?
Via New Scientist, the downside of knowing everything all at once.
‘I debated whether to smile or take umbrage, eternally amazed by the tremendous popularity of the Cuban Revolution among the taxi drivers of the world.’
Some good eats for the weekend: a sprawling personal essay on the Cuban identity, written by a Cuban expatriate after a chance conversation in a taxicab.
From (the superlative) Overthinking It: rooting through The Fantastic Mr. Fox for some truly disturbing thematic material.
Caution: mild spoilers ahead!