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The cover of the book How Bad are Bananas? by Mike Berners-Lee

Book

How bad are bananas?

The cover of the DVD for Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, the film of Pink Floyd's 1971 show at the ancient amphitheatre in Pompeii.

Film

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

The Roots featuring Bilal perform an NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

Video

The Roots feat. Bilal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

A still from the film Waltz with Bashir

Film

Waltz with Bashir

The cover of the DVD for Waking Life, an exploration of the boundary between sleep and being awake

Film

Waking Life

The cover of the DVD of the film Pearl Jam Twenty

Film

Pearl Jam Twenty

The cover of the DVD for Marley, the film about Bob Marley's life

Film

Marley

The cover of the book The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

Book

The Art of Asking

The home of the Dervaes family — they manage to grow all the food they need on 1/10 of an acre, using urban agroecology

Video

Urban Agroecology

Carl Honoré presenting his TED talk praising slowness

Video

In praise of slowness

The cover of the DVD of The Orphanage, the horror film from J. A. Bayona

Film

The Orphanage

The cover of The War that Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan

Book

The War that Ended Peace

A poster for the film Searching for Sugar Man

Film

Searching for Sugar Man

Episode 117 of the Tim Ferriss Podcast with Dom D'Agostino talking about the ketogenic diet

Podcast

Tim Ferriss Podcast #117: Dom D’Agostino

App

OLIO

The ruins of an Ancient Greek building, perhaps a gymnasium

Article

The Gymnasium

An interactive page from The Guardian showing all the flights worldwide in a 24-hour period

Website

All the world’s connections

Sandrine Thuret presenting her TED talk on we can grow new neurons (brain cells)

Video

You can grow new brain cells. Here’s how.

The cover of the book The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman

Book

The First 20 Hours

The cover of the DVD for Human Planet, the BBC series on the incredible environments in which people manage to live

TV Series

Human Planet