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Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach for Earth Day amidst the melting permafrost in a birch forest in Alaska. “If we find the time to truly listen, we might recognize ourselves in the melting permafrost or the fallen birch…” https://kottke.org/24/04/yo-yo-ma-performs-bach-in-alaska-for-earth-day
Yo-Yo Ma Performs Bach in Alaska for Earth Day

This is a nice thing to end the week on: Yo-Yo Ma playing “Bach’s Prélude from Suite No. 2, amidst the melting perma

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Yesss, Run Lola Run is returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary. A 4K digital restoration will start showing on June 7. I loved this movie — saw it in the theater when it came out but haven’t seen it in many years. https://deadline.com/2024/04/run-lola-run-re-release-25th-anniversary-1235890286/
‘Run Lola Run’ Will Run Again This Summer In Theaters For 25th Anniversary

'Run Lola Run' Getting 25th Anniversary Re-Release

Deadline
The first episode of the podcast featuring astrophysicist Katie Mack explaining the universe to John Green is up! It’s about the first two minutes of the universe. “We are not just made of stardust; we are also made of Big Bang stuff.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqRF8jTF74c
The First Fraction of a Second | Crash Course Pods: The Universe #1

YouTube
Adam Roberts and his partner dined at Noma (aka “The Best Restaurant in the World”) and he was thwarted by some pre-meal queasiness & the challenging cuisine. “You don’t seem like yourself. You look haunted.” https://www.amateurgourmet.com/blog/2024/4escape-from-noma
Escape From Noma — The Amateur Gourmet

This is not the post that I thought I was going to write about Noma , the massively influential Copenhagen restaurant that’s been declared “The Best Restaurant in the World” five different times. In fact, I didn’t even think I’d ever get to eat at Noma, especially when they recently announced that

The Amateur Gourmet
The Man Who Killed Google Search, i.e. how “growth-hungry managerial types” from Google’s ad business chased out the old search team “to make Google worse to make the company more money”. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
The Man Who Killed Google Search

Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
This is great: a 25-minute interview with legendary animator Chuck Jones as he sits and draws some of his iconic characters (Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck). https://kottke.org/24/04/watch-chuck-jones-draw-bugs-bunny-daffy-duck-and-porky-pig
Watch Chuck Jones Draw Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig

This is great: a 25-minute interview with legendary animator Chuck Jones as he sits and draws some of his iconic characters (Bug

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Christopher Slayton built a bunch of iconic cosmic structures in Minecraft, including the Sun, the Pillars of Creation, galaxies, a supermassive black hole, and galaxies. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-18-year-old-recreated-the-entire-universe-in-minecraft-180980940/
This 18-Year-Old Recreated the ‘Entire Universe’ in Minecraft

From the video game's blocks, he built galaxies, a nebula, a black hole and the solar system

Smithsonian Magazine
An experimental data sonification of what a “decentralized, digitized, decarbonized electricity grid” would sound like. “Should we be dramatic, Hans-Zimmer-style ‘bahhhhhhhhnnnnn’ sounds? Or more ambient?” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-might-new-grid-sound-like-experiment-sonifying-data-matt-jones-hrbue
What might the new grid sound like? An experiment 'sonifying' data from Gridshare

It's a pretty common thing to visualize data in order to get a better understanding of it, especially when you're looking at systems that lie outside of typical direct human sensory experience - often by dint of their scale, physical or temporal. For instance - astronomers have leaned on visualizati

Sounds like The Onion has been rescued from an agonizing death by private equity by an acquisition by people who actually care about it. “The Onion is just an institution. It should be preserved and it should be great.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/business/media/the-onion-sold.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE0.Nrih.oGBYaLXAaMV-
The Onion Sold by G/O Media

The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion’s staff.

The New York Times
Just a beautiful drawing of bluebells, by the artist Skevoulla Gordon! https://kottke.org/24/04/just-a-beautiful-drawing-of-bluebells
Just a Beautiful Drawing of Bluebells

…By the artist Skevoulla Gordon. (Prints are available, too, and she’s a good follow on Instagram!)

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