Seeing is Hearing

Super-fluffy pancakes, inflatable concrete, Baroque photojournalism and more in our look at the web this week

MIT engineers have developed a technique to “listen” to sound without the use of a microphone—audio can be recovered just from video by analyzing how an inanimate object (such as a bag of chips or a plant’s leaves) responds to sound vibrations. This means combining and filtering movements as small as 1/1000th of a pixel to retrospectively piece back conversations that took place near the …

Seal “Hangs Fin” with Local Surfers

Super-fluffy pancakes, inflatable concrete, Baroque photojournalism and more in our look at the web this week

The internet was abuzz this week with animal cuteness from an unlikely critter. A curious baby seal joined a group of surfers in the chilly waters of the North Sea near Northumberland, UK for a surf session. The friendly mammal hopped up on longboards, played with the surfers and even did a bit of bodysurfing of its own. After an hour the surfers headed into …

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Kitty Cash's mixtape, Karen O's solo album, Simian Mobile Disco and more in the music we tweeted this week

Tensnake and Jacques Lu Cont: Feel Of Love (feat. Jamie Lidell) Sex sells for the obvious reasons, but it can also be funny. Tensnake and Jacques Lu Cont’s hilarious new video for “Feel Of Love“—a standout track from the German producer’s latest album Glow, featuring Jamie Lidell—playfully juxtaposes human fetish with reproductive biology. Within the testes, a sprightly group of anthropomorphized sperm is trained by …