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“Frühstück”, “breakfast” et petit déjeuner sont des inventions récentes, fruits de l’importation de boissons exotiques charriées de tous les continents dans l’Europe du XVIIIe siècle. Du café matinal aux récipients inventés pour le boire, c’est à l’échelle du monde que s’écrit l’histoire du petit déjeuner.
Thé, café, chocolat : on les trouve aujourd’hui dans les hôtels du monde entier, accompagnés de mets divers, salés ou sucrés, qui composent le premier repas de la journée. Pourtant, Frühstück, breakfast et petit déjeuner sont des inventions récentes, fruits de l’importation de boissons exotiques charriées de tous les continents dans l’Europe du XVIIIe siècle. Du café matinal aux récipients inventés pour le boire, c’est à l’échelle du monde que s’écrit l’histoire du petit déjeuner. Avec les éclairages de l’historien et géographe Christian Grataloup, auteur du Monde dans nos tasses – Trois siècles de petit déjeuner (Armand Colin, 2017).
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If someone calls you bird-brained, they’re probably trying to say that you’re a little slow. But considering all we’ve learned about how smart some birds really are, this may not be the read your bully thinks it is. Let’s divebomb straight into the brains of crows. Are they as smart as they say? Or do people just think they’re deep because they’re goth?
00:00 Are Crows As Smart As We Think
00:36 Cultural myths & crow reputation
01:52 How smart are crows compared to humans?
03:56 Can crows reason?
05:39 Can crows plan ahead?
07:01 Problem solving without feedback
08:37 Abstract thinking & analogical reasoning
09:30 Understanding complex ideas
10:40 Crow Cognition
12:16 Learning from experience & grudges
13:02 Intrinsic motivation & tool use
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New Zealand is the world’s largest kiwi exporter, shipping out over $1 billion of fruit annually. But a little over a decade ago, a deadly plant disease called PSA nearly wiped out the industry. A scientist named Russell Lowe saved it with a new breed called SunGold, which has overtaken green varieties as the most popular kind. We visited New Zealand to see how it grows, picks, ships, and breeds its most prized kiwifruit.
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Photos by Hans Wulf. All images courtesy of the artist, Zilberman Gallery Berlin, and Kunstmuseum MagdeburgYou’ve probably heard the idiom, “the elephant in the room,” to describe when there’s some uncomfortable and obvious problem that no one is addressing—the kind of issue that feels as though it’s taking up all available space. But what if yet another megafauna came stampeding onto the scene? That’s where Berlin-based artist Itamar Gov’s large-scale installation comes in.
The Rhinoceros in the Room is a towering, inflatable sculpture that fills a medieval church nave at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg in Germany. Gov draws inspiration from Renaissance engraver Albrecht Dürer’s iconic rhinoceros woodcut, which the artist created in 1515 without having ever seen one of the animals himself. His rendering is wildly inaccurate in terms of anatomy, depicting an extra horn at the creature’s shoulders and armor instead of a thick leather hide, but thanks to the ability to replicate it in print, it captured the public’s imagination.
Dürer’s image persists as a symbol of imperial might and prestige. The animal itself represents power and vigor, and one was even gifted from Sultan Muzafar II of Gujaratm, India, to King Manuel I of Portugal in 1515, providing the inspiration for the artist’s rendering.[…]
More: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/itamar-gov-rhinoceros-in-the-room-sculpture-installation/
In this video, I explore the surprising history of the View-Master, one of the most recognizable 3D viewers ever created. Using my own vintage Model A from around 1940, I look at how this deceptively simple device produces vivid, full-color three-dimensional images—and why its core design has remained largely unchanged for more than eight decades.
To set the stage, I break down how stereoscopic vision actually works and why our brains perceive depth the way they do. I trace the roots of 3D viewing back to the earliest stereoscopes of the 19th century and follow the technological and cultural path that led to a massive public fascination with 3D imagery in the early 20th century. This background helps explain why the View-Master arrived at exactly the right moment.
At the heart of the story is William Gruber, a German-born inventor whose experience repairing player pianos played an unexpected role in the creation of the View-Master. I talk about how precision mechanics, photography, and the introduction of Kodachrome color film converged—along with a chance encounter in the Oregon Caves—to spark an idea that would change visual entertainment forever.
I also follow the View-Master’s journey from concept to production, including its debut at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and its lesser-known use during World War II. Along the way, I share examples of vintage scenic reels, early viewers, and the clever engineering tricks that transform flat film into a convincing 3D experience.
Whether you’re interested in the history of photography, stereoscopic 3D, vintage toys, or overlooked inventors, this video uncovers how a piano repairman helped create the world’s most famous 3D viewer—and why the View-Master still works just as well today as it did when it first amazed audiences nearly a century ago.
Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
01:42 – Seeing in Stereo
05:00 – William Gruber
07:05 – Setting the Scene for Innovation
12:17 – The Idea
14:34 – The Meeting
16:07 – Production
18:17 – Just the Beginning
Special Thanks:
Made in collaboration with Peter Dibble – who helped with a lot of the research. He makes long-form documentaries on obscure history from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Definitely check him out @PeterDibble
Thanks to Mary Ann and Wolfgang Sell for their contributions to View Master collecting over many, many years. Their book “View-Master Memories” was a significant resource to this video.
Much thanks to Gretchen Harmon – William Gruber’s daughter for your time and help. Thanks so much for the book, “View Master – The Biography of William B. Gruber” which is a fantastic read and was very useful. I’ll be relying on it a lot for upcoming videos!
Thanks to Keita Wangari for your fantastic photographs of 3D viewing devices over the years. Your collection is first rate and organized very well at https://vintageviewers.com/
Special Credits:
Image of Deutsches Museum in Munich by Burkhard Mücke
Image of Brian May using the Wheatstone Viewer is from Kings College London
All images from View Master reels are my own.
Recording of Welte Mignon and much information about them from https://www.pianola.org/
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The semiconductor was born inside Bell Labs, a regulated monopoly required to give its discoveries away. That accident of policy helped to create an industry that would become a constant arms race.
Today, no nation fully controls this technology. Chris Miller walks us through the history of the semiconductor.
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About Chris Miller:
Chris Miller is a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the book Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology.
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