Tag Archives: Life

Why Does Rubbing Tired Eyes Feel Good?

It can be a wonderful feeling to give your tired eyes a good rub. And rubbing your eyes can help keep them moist, but it turns out it also can affect your heart rate. Hosted by: Michael Aranda

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While You Were Sleeping

Director: Anderson Wright Producer: Vesta Tuckute Director of Photography: Patrick Golan Editor: Matt Schaff Gaffer: Benjamin Carroll Key Grip: Elias Jessop First AC: Derek Wride Production Assistant: John Patrick McKenna Color Correction: The Mill Josh Bohoskey Sound Design: Ballad Gregers … Continue reading →

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‘Meditation without meditating’ might be possible. Can it also be made ethical? | Aeon Videos

Why a device that generates ‘meditation without meditating’ and could democratise enlightenment scares its inventors Over the past several decades, studies examining the potential for meditation to curb mental anguish and increase wellbeing have yielded promising, if complicated, results. For … Continue reading →

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Meet the Most Feared Women in History | Messy Nessy 

From daughters to soldiers, from wives to weaponized, they remain the only documented frontline female troops in modern warfare history. A sub-saharan band of female terminators who left their European colonisers shaking in their boots, foreign observers named them the … Continue reading →

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Nsibidi scripts | Ikom in the present day Cross River State, Nigeria

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Bamum script | Cameroon

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Project Unlocked 2021 | Contact Manchester

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Theme: Animal Wall Blend | @sakulchai_sikitikul

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Why you can expect to live past your life expectancy

This is our submission to the #VeritasiumContest Length restriction is one minute, so apologies for the brevity. I’ll have a longer video about life expectancy and how COVID affected it later. Info about the contest is here: here https://www.veritasium.com/contest Contact … Continue reading →

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Little Amal the giant puppet’s London itinerary has been revealed | Time Out

Written by Rhian Daly Monday 9 August 2021 Join the nine-year-old refugee on her London adventure Little Amal, a 3.5-metre-tall puppet of a nine-year-old girl, is doing something most humans couldn’t manage after 18 months on the sofa: walking 8,000km … Continue reading →

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La Notte di S.Lorenzo (Video-poesia)

La Notte di S.Lorenzo E’ la notte di San Lorenzo e le stelle cadono copiose distruggendosi sulla stratosfera della terra. Ad ogni bagliore procurato da quella deflagrazione così lontana nella mia mente esplodono centinaia di pensieri randomici. Elettroni, pianeti, atomi … Continue reading →

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Everything is Connected — Here’s How: | Tom Chi | TEDxTaipei

Tom Chi認為「萬物都有相關聯」或「事出必有因」的說法,其實不只是純粹哲學的形上思考,而是有各種科學根據證明這個理論的。而找出這個現象象徵的意義是什麼,或許就能解開人類之所以存在的秘密….? Tom Chi has worked in a wide range of roles from astrophysical researcher to Fortune 500 consultant to corporate executive developing new hardware/software products and services. He has played a significant role in established projects with global reach … Continue reading →

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