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Kayden + Rain. A toddler experiences rain for the first time. So lovely.

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Life Itself - A feature documentary based on Roger Ebert's memoir

Building a community for Roger Ebert fans who want to be among the first to see the new film, Life Itself.

10 more hours to contribute to Life Itself, a feature documentary based on Roger Ebert's memoir, by Kartemquin Films.

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Gear Drive for the Men's & Women's Afghan Cycling Teams

From the video: "This winter and spring, Breckenridge based nonprofit, Mountain2Mountain, organized a gear drive nationwide. As the cycling gear piled up, Shannon Galpin's home began to look like an episode of Hoarders. Jerseys, helmets, shoes, seats, water bottles, even 6 six racing bikes - 350 pounds of gear in total got packed up and made the journey with us to Afghanistan."

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Pakistan's Sachal Studios Orchestra play Dave Brubeck's "Take Five." Via Open Culture. 

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Mae Karthauser was a special guest star performing in "Cabaret Brocante 2012." Filmed in Poffabro, Frisanco, Pordenone, Italy. Film by Michele Frederico.

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Melissa Harris-Perry on cultural appropriation and "The Harlem Shake"

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TIME asks Neil deGrasse Tyson about the universe's most astounding fact. This is a stunning illustration of his answer.

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Beauty doesn't need to be fancy. Projector Snow by Brian Maffitt.

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Questions elicit answers in their likeness. It's hard to transcend a simplistic question. It's hard to resist a generous one.

Krista Tippett

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This is brilliant. the Scared is scared, by Biana Giaever.

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…Love is too beautiful a concept to keep locked up behind a forehead like a prisoner.

by Donald Miller, introducing Bob Goff’s book Love Does (via emilykuenzi)

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Baby Spoon-billed Sandpipers emerge from the nest for the first time. 

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Some days I think perhaps the reason Leo stormed into life with such ferocity is because he thought something that was chasing him was gaining on him, and that when it caught him it would blot him out, eclipsing him and casting him into a darkness from which he would never emerge.

Cord Jefferson

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Endeavour: In a day by Benn Berkeley

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Beautiful reflection on childhood and home movies.

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"Well, we shouldn't throw away people, either."

Trailer for Landfill Harmonic, an upcoming feature-length documentary film.

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In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.

Edna O'Brien