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How to make a baby (video)

(via Tralalere)

I have had this in my head. all. day.

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The Goode Family

Maybe you have heard about the new animated comedy featured on ABC in the US about a family of ‘do-gooders’ - vegans and environmentalists who live in a solar-powered, rain-water collecting home with their (evidently starved) vegan dog and adopted son. Here’s one of the promos:

Joshua Catcher of the Discerning Brute had some strong [...]

Hitler finds out he is banned from Wikipedia (video)

Hee hee.
(via All Kidding, Asides)

tweenbots, kacie kinzer (video)

I have been completely infatuated with this art project by Kacie Kinzer.
She created small types of robot she calls Tweenbots. On her site with a fabulous essay explaining her project, she explains:
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, [...]

Time-Lapse Video: Glowing Cities

Check out this beautiful timelapse video showing a rare perspective on city lights by James Leng. (via)
In the description, he writes:
On my night time flight back to SF from Amsterdam, I noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow. Really spectacular and ethereal - it was really seeing the impact of urban [...]

Superflex: Flooded McDonald’s

Superflex has created a 20 minute film in which “…a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald’s burger bar, without any customers or staff present, gradually floods with water. Furniture is lifted up by the water, trays of food and drinks start to float around, electrics short circuit and eventually the space becomes [...]

Ever confused about the links between feminism, sexism, and meat-eating? Let me help.

I am learning lots about feminism this term in school (verging into topics that include: queer studies, sexuality, gender, feminist media studies), and the experience reminds me again why I love learning. My perspective on the world is changing as I begin to look more critically at media from a scholarly feminist angle, and [...]

New documentary: America the Beautiful

I have started to engage in feminist scholarship, which has been an eye-opening experience. While I have always considered myself a feminist, I have barely scratched the surface of reading some of the relevant texts. One of the areas I find interesting is body acceptance and the ways to look critically at the [...]