
Give a book to a child in need.
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Albert Einstein: “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
Trompe l’oeil Ring, by Edouard Larmaraud (France) has been created for a jewelery competition, whose subject was “a little bit of humour in jewellery“. It’s a teeny tiny diamond with a magnifying glass…
This animation from 1973 has a lot to say about our consumerist society.
Made by the talented director Fyodor Khitruk, it won the Golden Palm in Cannes.
(good stuff starts around 1:30 mark)

(painting: G. Seurat -1886, photo: unknown)
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The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile sound universe.
Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century – but this modern version has a short video about each one.
The Periodic Table Of Videos is an experiment by Professor Martyn Poliakoff of the University of Nottingham, UK.
The story of two people who refused to say sorry. They fought for their freedom of speech in the longest trial in English legal history and in doing so, they changed the world. A must see documentary.
(my rating: 5*/5)