A beautiful short film based on an audio diary the writer and theologian John Hull kept after he became completely blind.

Renowned war reporter Sebastian Junger on why wars can only be stopped if we understand soldiers’ emotional bond with it.

Love this Wurlitzer-controlled light installation for the 2014 Montreux Jazz Festival.

A beautiful, sad documentary on people who have applied for a mission to Mars, one way. They speak about their hopes away from Earth, and the one thing that might make them change their mind.

A dead simple idea, a great short film: Chat up people while they are out jogging and ask them about their lives. Film makers Matan Rochlitz and Ivo Gormley had a theory that people might be more open, even to big, existential questions, if they were asked while running. They were right.

2,4,8 – can you figure out the rule behind the sequence? A great short video about the power of falsification (and why people don’t use it).

Beautifully filmed documentary of a 24-hour nonstop bicycle race. Hipster bonus: The protagonist has a huge beard and rides a single speed-bike.

I had already decided on this documentary to be this week’s top story, when NASA released the first image of Earth, as seen from Mars. It’s an overwhelming image, our planet being reduced to little more than a pixel. This is what the 16-minute-documentary «Overview» is about, named after the overview effect. It’s the mind-changing effect astronauts described to have experienced upon seeing Earth from above. And make no mistake, they have gone no further than the moon – imagine how overwhelmed Curiosity Rover must be.

A beautiful short documentary about a gang of old men playing for bragging rights on the handball courts of Flamingo Park in Miami.