A Momentary Taste of Being

"Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him."

Some video of this most infamous of Nazi War Crime trials.

Who is the world's most typical person?

A young person's guide to the Orchestra--or, in fact, any person's guide.

Visualizing WiFi

Oedipus with Vegetables

Urban Exploration: Under City

Tall Painting

"They're very prone to hypnosis. . . "

George Saunders speaks to the issue

Ventriloquist with a dummy

Just for fun--Winter in Venice

Including "Samuel Johnson is Indignant," Lydia Davis recites five stories

Mailer and McLuhan together again for the first time

iPad apps that combine books with video And who exactly wants these, and why?  I know that I have trouble watching many foreign films because I'm seldom in the mood to read a movie.

Kids reenact A Wrinkle in Time in 90 seconds.

Physics from Hell redux How Dante invented modern physics.

Water Sculpture

Orson Welles's third film The Stranger in its entirety And for Frank and some others: Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, a documentary.