The Air­Traf­fic team presents a rather intrigu­ing visu­al­iza­tion of what glob­al air traf­fic looks like over a 24 hour peri­od. File this under Ran­dom. Here it goes:

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A quick fyi, you can catch live streams of the Olympic Games via the web.

If you live in the US, you can watch at NBCOlympics.com,

If you live in the UK and Europe, you can get the stream at BBC TV Olympics

If you live on Chi­na’s Main­land, you can see the games at CCTVOlympics.com

And for Aus­tralian fans, watch here: https://au.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/
or https://www.abc.net.au/olympics/

via Actionooz

A lit­tle sum­mer ran­dom­ness. It’s actu­al­ly quite beau­ti­ful …

(And, no, I’m not sure if this is tech­ni­cal­ly a tsuna­mi.)

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1200 peo­ple live in Antarc­ti­ca dur­ing the sum­mer, and about 200 in win­ter. Assum­ing that you’re not among them, we’ve post­ed this time lapse video to show you what you’re miss­ing:

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What can you say about this? A quick trip back to the 1950s… File this under Ran­dom …

(For for­eign read­ers, all you need to know is that The Flint­stones was a clas­sic Amer­i­can car­toon.)

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

Rewind the Video­tape: Mike Wal­lace Inter­views 1950s Celebri­ties

Appear­ing at the TED Con­fer­ence, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman sums up “what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too lit­tle home cook­ing), and why it’s putting the entire plan­et at risk.” As you may notice, some of Bittman’s com­ments echo the think­ing in Michael Pol­lan’s recent work. (The clip has been added to our YouTube playlist.)

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Per­haps this is a lit­tle off top­ic, I know. But it’s fair­ly wild. And it’s the start of sum­mer.

(For more good robot videos click here and here, and for more sub­stan­tive musi­cal pod­casts, click here.)

via Matthew Ygle­sias