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Surprise meEntangled Vale
A brief, entertaining adventure into how swear words gain and lose their offensive qualities over time. Many words we consider crude today were once part of everyday conversation, and what counts as obscene has morphed over the centuries from the blasphemous to the scatological.
ImagineMaker's Forge
Charles Cornell is the very embodiment of 'lighting up' when you talk about the thing you love. Here he breaks down what's going on thematically in Michael Giacchino's score for Ratatouille — a masterclass in how music tells a story underneath the story.
GroundedMaker's Forge
Omozoc makes soothing stop-motion videos of beautiful hand-crafted creations. One 72-second woodworking video is stitched together from 791 undoctored photos — hypnotic and lovingly made.
WonderEntangled Vale
If you enjoy short, well-researched and sometimes witty explanations of obscure facts and trivia, Half as Interesting is a YouTube channel worth adding to your rotation — obsessive deep dives into things you'd never thought to wonder about.
Make senseUnfolding Realm
Tom Critchlow's top-notch five-part series on the theatre of office work, and what improv acting can teach us about 'performing' modern knowledge work. An absolute must-read for indie consultants in particular.
ImagineHearthlands
When human grudges get architectural: feuding brothers, thwarted lovers and a lot of deliberately spoiled views. An entertaining assortment of our smallest human pettiness made manifest in bricks and mortar.
ImagineMaker's Forge
An Instagram account where a dad turns his kids' drawings into surrealist photography — the results are delightful and deeply unsettling in equal measure.
ImagineHearthlands
Cult Tennis is a series of mini-documentaries about weird and interesting corners of the tennis world. This one is about a real guy who faked the existence of his entire professional career, and exactly how he pulled it off. In other news, it might be time to re-watch Catch Me If You Can.
Surprise meUnfolding Realm
A misfit achieves the highest honour in mathematics. School didn't suit June Huh and he avoided maths entirely — until a chance encounter in his sixth year of college. Particularly notable for its insights into his thinking process, and his view that self-discipline and willpower are overr
ImagineMaker's Forge
A panel of entertaining professional musicians deconstructs the live and recorded versions of Silk Sonic songs to work out what makes them such a vibe. (An Evening With Silk Sonic was hands-down my favourite record of its year.)
Move meMaker's Forge
Urban photographer Roman Robroek takes photos of decay where once there was luxury, and stillness in places that once burst with life — reflections on transience and changing times, like an abandoned five-storey Art Nouveau palace in Italy.
WonderSoma Isles
earth.fm is an interactive world map of natural soundscapes — press a spot on the globe and drop into a real recording made there. The embed is the uncanny song of the Albert's lyrebird, an Australian bird that mimics whole forests; wander on to a seagoing albatross, or a thunderstorm in s