In the brand new Architectural Digest video above, Michael Wyetzner talks a few truthful few constructings we’ve featured over time right here on Open Culture: the Imperial Resort, the Ennis Home, Taliesin, Fallingwater. These are all, in fact, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, who nonetheless stands because the embodiment of American architecture greater than…
Above, Lars Schmitz, a professionalfessor at Claremont McKenna College, guides us “by way of an enormous tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes within the animal kingdom: how they work, why they’ve taken the shape they’ve, and the evolutionary advantages they’ve unlocked throughout species.” The video comes courtesy of Wired. It’s 36 minutes and downproper…
Life evolves, however machines are invented: this dichotomy arduously conflicts with what most of us have realized about biology and technology. However certain specimens roaming round on the planet can blur that line — and within the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they actually are roaming round. First assembled in 1990 by the Dutch artist…
For a lot of a classic action-movie enthusiast, no automotive chase will ever prime the one in Bullitt. The narrator of the Insider video above describes it as “the scene that set the standard for all modern automotive chases,” one made “iconic halfly due to the characters, but additionally due to their vehicles.” The pursuer drives…