On Friday we released a new single “Damballa Zing,” a meditative reworking of SNAKEskin from our 2009 Zodiac album. Listen here: orcd.co/damballazing Written & produced by @daveliang & @eighthday Feat. percussion by Angelo Manhenzane & Arià Miralles Cover by @eighthday

A 5th Century BC, Greek "Cooker" three (or four) stoves, an oven and grill; found on Greek island of Delos. Ancient Greek Clay Anthrakia; also known as Charcoal Stove, used for cooking and heating, commonly used on Island of Delos, Greece (6th-1st Century BC). With an extremely impressive design, made of clay, it served needs of household like electric stove today. Archaeological Museum of Delos #archaeohistories

El joven senegalés había acudido al banco a abrir su primera cuenta en España cuando entró un atracador con un cuchillo. Tras un forcejeo, le quitó el arma y lo sujetó contra el suelo hasta que llegó la policía. Un cliente grabó toda la escena con el móvil elpais.com/espana/catalunya/…

Why? Just why?

We just released our new album Sketchbook 94 — 8 songs that were commissioned in 2017 by director Liu Jian for the original script of the film Art College 1994. orcd.co/sketchbook94

Putting the கடி in கடிகாரம்

A few days ago we released a new single “The Artist,” a contemplative a cappella song composed by @eighthday and feat. the parents of @daveliang on vocals. This will be the opening song in Liu Jian’s upcoming film Art College 1994, which premieres at @berlinale later this week.

Nigeria is large enough to change the fortunes of the entire region through its own success or failure, FP columnist @hofrench writes. buff.ly/3vJRzhG

Thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East have disappeared on the journey to Europe; some are in unmarked graves in Italy. Their families never know what happened. I wrote in this week's @NewYorker on the crisis of the missing: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Watch a pygmy marmoset completely fascinated by an insect in this clip from "Tiny World".

In a nutshell, there’s a billion people and diaspora, who are in a collective loss of language. And we are in this state for such an extended period of time and we can’t often bring ourselves to face, acknowledge, and talk about the lack of the talk here.

This famous image made by artist István Orosz features a scene from the classic science fantasy novel The Mysterious Island. When a mirrored cylinder is placed on the Moon, it reveals by anamorphosis a portrait of the novel’s writer, Jules Verne [source: buff.ly/319f9VP]

I only eat at Chinese restaurants with 3.5 stars on Yelp

nationalgeographic.com/news-… World’s largest Cave, Son Doong [Han Son Goong?], in Vietnam. has its own forest, a beach, tall enough for a 40-storey skyscraper…. Great 360 walk-through with super-high resolution [so zoom in!].

This is how you can produce light inside of buildings without using electricity x.com/RisingTechnolog/status…

So happy to see this finally coming out .. (1/3)

中秋快乐🎑～～

Lion of the ancient Aslantepe Gate, Limestone, Malatya, 1200-700 BC., Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.