This does­n’t need much in the way of an intro­duc­tion, except to say that two pho­tog­ra­phers, Simon Ian­nel­li & Johannes Berg­er, caught Mari­na Kan­no and Gia­co­mo Bevilaqua, both from the Staats­bal­lett Berlin, per­form­ing sev­er­al jumps, each cap­tured in slow motion at 1000 frames per sec­ond. And it’s all set to Radio­head­’s “Every­thing In Its Right Place.” Enjoy that (h/t Kot­tke) and also …

More Cul­ture from Around the Web/Our Twit­ter Stream:

Google Doo­dle Cel­e­brates Mies Van Der Rohe’s Crown­ing Achieve­ment

Ter­ry Gross Talks With Matthew Wein­er (‘Mad Men’ Cre­ator) On What’s Next For Don Drap­er

Will One Researcher’s Dis­cov­ery in the Ama­zon Destroy Chom­sky’s The­o­ry of Lin­guis­tics?

The Mechan­i­cal Uni­verse: 52 Lec­ture Intro to Physics by Cal­tech. Added to the Physics sec­tion of our Free Cours­es List

How to be an Aca­d­e­m­ic Fail­ure: A Guide for Begin­ners

Record­ing of William Faulkn­er’s Nobel Prize Speech

From Le Monde, “Back­stage with Char­lie Chap­lin,” a Hand­ful of Very Mov­ing Stills

Kurt Von­negut: The Paris Review Inter­view (1977)

A Reject­ed & Unpub­lished Kurt Von­negut Novel­la Gets Released as a $1.99 Kin­dle Sin­gle

Advice on Advice from Lit­er­ary Greats

Why Bilin­guals Are Smarter

First High-Res­o­lu­tion Images of the Wreck of the Titan­ic

Last Novem­ber we post­ed a beau­ti­ful video of a shape-shift­ing flock of star­lings, known as a mur­mu­ra­tion, mak­ing pat­terns in the Irish sky. Today we bring you a sim­i­lar­ly beau­ti­ful film, but with an added ele­ment of dra­ma. In a scene from the BBC series “Earth­flight,” nar­rat­ed by David Ten­nant, one of nature’s most fear­some aer­i­al preda­tors, the pere­grine fal­con, swoops down into a dense cloud of birds for what promis­es to be an all-you-can-eat star­ling buf­fet. The out­come may sur­prise you. The aston­ish­ing footage was shot in Rome, where mil­lions of the birds flock every win­ter. For more on the spec­ta­cle of star­lings over Rome, be sure to see the 2007 New York Times audio-visu­al pre­sen­ta­tion fea­tur­ing pho­tographs by Richard Barnes, and the accom­pa­ny­ing essay by Jonathan Rosen.

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via: 3 Quarks Dai­ly

There’s con­den­sa­tion in the air. You can feel it.

This video packs 14 years of Unit­ed States weath­er (1997 — 2011) into 33 min­utes, pre­sent­ing a total of 120,900 indi­vid­ual frames, each spaced one hour apart. And they’re all set to Beethoven’s Piano Con­cer­to No. 5 in E flat Major. If you want to get right to the dra­ma, we rec­om­mend jump­ing to the cli­mac­tic 27th minute. H/T Devour.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Glob­al Warm­ing: A Free Course from UChica­go Explains Cli­mate Change

Chilean Earth­quake Waves Shown in Ani­ma­tion

NASA Cap­tures Giant Solar Storm

Cof­fee — it’s the fuel of the mod­ern world and cer­tain­ly this site. And, if you believe this video (appar­ent­ly not made by Star­bucks or the Amer­i­can cof­fee lob­by), it’s the great­est, safest addic­tion around. Take it all with a grain of salt … while you drink your morn­ing (or after­noon) cup of joe.

More Relat­ed Cof­fee Items:

How to Drink Cof­fee at Zero Grav­i­ty

David Lynch’s Organ­ic Cof­fee (Bar­bie Head Not Includ­ed)

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