NASA Visualizes the Ocean Currents in Movement: A Mesmerizing View of Earth’s Underwater Highways

The mes­mer­iz­ing video above allows you to visu­al­ize the ocean cur­rents world wide. Utilizing information from area­craft, buoys, and oth­er mea­positive­ments, the visu­al­iza­tion exhibits the ocean in movement, with the cur­rents cre­at­ing Van Gogh-like swirls across the globe. Accord­ing to NASA, “the ocean has been [his­tor­i­cal­ly] dif­fi­cult to mod­el. Sci­en­tists strug­gled in years previous to…

20 Mesmerizing Movies of Japanese Artisans Creating Conventional Handicrafts

In Japan­ese “tewaza” means “hand tech­nique” or “hand­craft” and, on this YouTube playlist of 20 brief movies, var­i­ous arti­sanal tech­niques are explored and demon­strat­ed by Japan­ese mas­ters within the area. For individuals who are each obsessive about Japan­ese artwork and watch­ing issues get made, these movies are cat­nip. There’s very lit­tle spo­ken, besides a number…