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If you're of a certain age, you might remember watching SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back [48m] on CBS back in the day. But have you ever considered, what a making-of feature for ESB might be like if it were made..... by a FRENCHMAN??? The Making Of The Empire Strikes Back [58m] directed by Michel Parbot.
posted by hippybear at 6:42 PM PST - 12 comments

At their peak, in the mid-1990s, the British population of phone boxes was about 100,000. Now, there are just over 20,000 working boxes left, which still sounds like quite a lot, given it’s hard to imagine anyone actually using one. And yet, they do. According to Ofcom, 5m calls are still made from phone boxes annually. Five million! It seems impossible. A number so surprisingly large it made me think there must be a lone guy in a box somewhere obsessively making one-minute calls all day to random numbers.

—The last phone boxes by Sophie Elmhirst (audio version).
posted by Kattullus at 4:34 PM PST - 48 comments

Remember The Lizzie Bennet Diaries? Ashley Clements is doing a rewatch/discussion show about it. Previous mention of LBD a decade ago here.
posted by jenfullmoon at 3:11 PM PST - 3 comments

The 1960 American Institute for Research study report, Psychological and Social Adjustment in a Simulated Shelter, observed volunteers confined for two weeks in simulated fall-out shelters with various temperatures and room sizes. (Via Bill Geerhart on twitter.)
posted by eotvos at 2:51 PM PST - 9 comments

"Cassandra Quave, Ph.D., is Curator of the Herbarium and Associate Professor of Dermatology and HumanHealth at Emory University, where she leads anti-infective drug discovery research initiatives and teaches courses on medicinal plants, microbiology, and pharmacology. As a medical ethnobotanist, her work focuses on the documentation and biochemical analysis of plants used in traditional medicine." [more inside]
posted by sciencegeek at 11:42 AM PST - 6 comments

Free Learning List is a rated/reviewed list of the Internet's Best Educational Resources. "The scores attributed to these resources have been graded on the basis of effectiveness, engagement, design, and popularity/veracity; however they are also largely subjective evaluations. "
posted by storybored at 10:44 AM PST - 7 comments