Why Every World Map Is Wrong

The idea that the world maps are wrong — all of them — is hardly controversial. It’s a mathematical fact that turning a globe (or an oblate spheroid) into a two-dimensional object will result in unavoidable distortions. In the TED-Ed lesson above by Kayla Wolf, you’ll learn a brief history of world maps, starting all the way back with the Greek mathematician Ptolemy, who “systematically mapped the Earth on a grid” in 150 AD in order to create maps that had a consistent scale. His grid system is still in use today — 180 lines of...

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Watch the Classic Silent Film The Ten Commandments (1923) with a New Score by Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips) & Scott Amendola

For Passover 2021, the culture nonprofit Reboot has released “a modern day score to Cecil B. Demille’s 1923 classic silent film The Ten Commandments with Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips) and Scott Amendola.” Reboot writes: “Berlin, Drozd and Amendola created a momentous new score for the Exodus tale, musically following Moses out of Egypt and into the Dessert where he receives the Ten Commandments. Cecil B. DeMille’s first attempt at telling the Ten Commandments story was in the Silent era year of 1923. The film [now...

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Hari Film, ini tiga fokus Kemenparekraf geliatkan industri layar lebar

Bertepatan dengan Hari Film Nasional, Kementerian Pariwisata dan Ekonomi Kreatif (Kemenparekraf) telah memiliki tiga rencana pokok dalam upaya mengembalikan geliat industri perfilman tanah air. Direktur Industri Kreatif, Film, ...https://www.antaranews.com/berita/2071214/hari-film-ini-tiga-fokus-kemenparekraf-geliatkan-industri-layar-le...

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Hear the Beautiful Isolated Vocal Harmonies from the Beatles’ “Something”

How many songs did Pattie Boyd — fashion model, photographer, muse, and wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton — inspire? It’s hard to say, since some of the lyrics purportedly written for her, like those in Harrison’s breakout “Something,” may have been for someone else, then diplomatically attributed to Boyd. Or, in the case of “Something” — the first Harrison song to come out as a Beatles A-side single and the song that convinced the world of his formidable songwriting talents — they might have been about a big, blue supernatural something. According...

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TikTok rilis film format vertikal pertama "X&Y"

Dalam rangka memperingati Hari Film Indonesia dan memberikan dukungan kepada industri perfilman dalam negeri, TikTok berkolaborasi dengan Studio Antelope meluncurkan film pendek vertikal pertama di TikTok Indonesia berjudul ...https://www.antaranews.com/berita/2069158/tiktok-rilis-film-format-vertikal-pertama...

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Udacity Running a 60% Off Sale on Online Courses Through April 13

A quick heads up: Udacity is running a 60% off sale through April 13 in the US (and April 20 in all other countries). Founded by computer scientist and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun, Udacity partners with leading tech companies and offers an array of courses (and Nanodegree programs) in data science,  cyber security, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and autonomous systems. To get the 60% off discount, click here, select a course/program, and then use the code CYBER60 during the checkout process. Note: Open Culture...

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Sandiaga Uno ingatkan insan film agar lebih berani bikin gebrakan baru

Menteri Pariwisata dan Ekonomi Kreatif Sandiaga Uno berharap insan perfilman Indonesia lebih berani untuk membuat gebrakan baru, salah satunya adalah membuat film dengan format vertikal. Salah satu platform digital video ...https://www.antaranews.com/berita/2068874/sandiaga-uno-ingatkan-insan-film-agar-lebih-berani-bikin-gebrakan-b...

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