http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehwy4Gq27uY
In a 2010 interview with Errol Morris, filmed 18 days before Mandelbrot’s death, the legendary mathematician talks about his work and the origin of the word ‘fractal’ with which he will always be associated.
The video was produced as a tribute by IBM (for whom Mandelbrot worked for 35 years)
Slacktory recuts out-takes from The Avengers into a trailer for the film.
No it is not a better film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vridzzySNkc
This is some serious weapons-grade squee right here.
You may find yourself yowling along.
Next Sunday, the Swiss (yes, the Swiss) will vote in a referendum on whether to enshrine the 1:12 pay ratio in their constitution. In a move by the Social Democrats and Greens to combat corporate greed and income inequity (the ratio of top to bottom earners in Swiss firms has grown from about 1:6 in 1984, to 1:43 today) the intention of the bill is to:
….limit the pay of top executives to just 12 times that of the lowest-paid employees at the same firm. In other words, prevent CEOs from earning more in one month than the lowliest shop-floor worker earns in a year.
The cartoon promo above features a Swiss nurse who is astounded by the way top manager salaries have grown to “astronomical” proportions, even as hers has barely increased.
Swiss outrage over executive pay sparks a movement in Europe (Reuters)
(Pic: 1:12′ flags adorning various houses in Bern and Zurich in November 2013. REUTERS/Staff)
(H/T: Ron)
Shane Griffin writes:
Just completed this short comic-book film to raise awareness with young drivers about the dangers of texting while behind the wheel. It’s in association with the Road Safety Authority. Set on the sunny streets of Los Angeles, we join our Hero Jack, as he embarks on a delivery mission for a crime boss. Jack’s expert driving skills are put to the test as things begins to take a turn for the worst.
It’s World Toilet Day. But you knew this.
As you celebrate today with family and friends – perhaps gathered together in song around the bowl, or exchanging small, warm gifts – do spare a thought for the real meaning of World Toilet Day.
As this short GE Focus Film directed last year by Jessica Wu explains:
For those without access to a simple toilet, poop can be poison. Businessman-turned-sanitation-superhero Jack Sim fights this oft-neglected crisis affecting 2.6 billion people…
(Thanks UCDScienceExpression et al)
The mighty Eclectic Method’s ‘meta self-referential’ music video tribute to movies about movies,’ including classic films about films like Robert Altman’s The Player, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and of course Boogie Nights’.
Previously: Mashed-Up Cats
The high decibel take-off and flight of a 4.8 meter long, 1:15 scale RC model of an Airbus A380 filmed by Swiss RC enthusiast Thomas Bodmer and built by Michael Schlemmer.
The model has a 5.3 meter wingspan, four miniature jet engines and a 10.5l tank, weighing in at nearly 70kg.
Dirty bird.
A composite image derived from footage (above) of a giant, elbowed Magnapinna (Bigfin squid) filmed in 2007 by an ROV at a Shell oil drilling site two and a half kilometers below the Gulf of Mexico.
Once they learn to hover above ground, we’re all doomed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1TrDMcaiLM#t=21
They all had it coming.
