Who Wrote the Book of Jungle?
Richard Sherman strolls down memory lane, telling us what it was like to work on the last Walt Disney animated feature, The Jungle Book. Well, there were more cartoons from Disney, but TJB was Walt's last.
Wes Phillips
Riley Rock Index
I've been spending the last few days exploring Riley Rock Index, billed as music's megaportal—justifiably, I believe.
Counting Down
Or up—a timeline portraying various "future history" events depicted in SF novels and films.
Auntie Tom
Tom Mitchelson spent a week, guided by a small bunch of female friends, attempting to experience "the thoughts, anxieties and simple daily tasks of a 21st-century woman."
Behave!
Or we'll force you to listen to Mick Jagger solo albums.
WWI—Animated Maps
The Beeb has an animated "front line" Western Front feature. Its only weakness is that it is antiseptic, which that war was definitely not.
The Physics of Medieval Archery
Gareth Rees calculates that the British archers at Agincourt might have rained 50,000 arrows a minute for a solid eight minutes onto the French. So if you were snorting derisively at the title's combination of "medieval" and "physics," consider this: Agincourt was, essentially, the first battle where conventional cavalry tactics met the equivalent of the machine gun.
Rock Lovers
Play "Match the kink to the rock star" with Pamela Des Barres.
Silicon Valley: The Radio Age
Silicon Valley's culture didn't begin with Hewlett and Packard's garage or, for that matter, the "treacherous eight" from Fairchild Semiconductor. The stage was set in 1909, in the wake of the great quake—and at the birth of radio.
Once More With Feeling—Or Else!
Rupert Christiansen sings the praises of hymns.