The summer returned today after 3 weeks of rain. A good reason to take a detour around the block while shopping for groceries and flip out the phone camera. Camera: Nokia N95 Color correction/distortion was applied amsterdamize.com video.amsterdamize.com...

Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what's necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals' tricks....

Flash | QuickTime | iPod While I was in Cuba, I went to a monument of one of the great battles in the history of the revolution. Watch the video of the Santa Clara Train Battle....

Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase....

Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day....

Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers....

After speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding the common ancestry of our modern languages....

click here for Quicktime (higher quality) A little voodle made with Processing and data visualization, courtesy Radiohead s House of Cards project. Made with Processing, AfterEffects, and Final Cut Pro using original data scans of Thom Yorke provided by Radiohead. This took many hours, and I believe...

I ve been rather dismayed lately with the amount of videobloggers that I am subscribed to that arent creating videos. I ve heard reasons are that some just dont have the time to shoot and edit video anymore. I find that hard to swallow. Videoblogging is all about capturing that moment. Personally, I...

Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance....

Click to view video While in Monte Rio, Adam and I canoed on the Russian River. This is a Lumiere video of something we saw. Lumiere videos lumierevideo Mefeedia lumierevideo...

QuickTime Share by: vPIP Embed (copy .we have one free day before we start helping James set up his booth for the San Diego Comic Con .that would be the worlds largest pop culture, comic, etc, etc event in the whole world ..anyway we did all kinds of stuff on our free day but for me, what I filmed a...

We had a terrific lightning and thunder storm tonight. decided to grab my phone and head out so that I could get some good video of it. Got the shock of my life so to speak. Kids, don t try this at home! For another great Lightning video, check out what my friend Gogen has here. Other formats availa...

The parents and the sis came to visit, so we shot a few home movies to commemorate the Proctor takeover of the mitten. Shot in HD on the Canon HV30 around Grand Rapids and Kirk Park. For cross-reference: the husband s family comes to visit; the Lee Family reunion (my mom s side of the gene pool)...

I shot this at 5am. Once the Morning News goes on the air, I take a walk outside to get some fresh air. This is the best time of my day. Other formats available: Quicktime (.mov)...

iPod This band is practically a St. Louis institution, except they might have a problem with being called a St. Louis band, since their official headquarters is in DeSoto Missouri. They ve probably had more success overseas than here, most recently touring Japan in 2006. I really dig their Ramones i...

See also this Flickr video Formats available:Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv), Cellphone - via Ovi (.3gp)...