Eye Candy: The History of the Universe Writ Small

Almost 14 billion years ago came the Big Bang and then life on earth -- prokaryotes and the like -- and somehow, we managed to climb out of the primordial soup and evolve to such a degree that a human could summarize billions of years of history in a series of paintings captured on in a 10-minute stop-motion video.

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Big Bang Big Boom is a short animation that the artist Blu -- a sort of Italian Banksy -- bills as an "unscientific story" about the rise and fall of life on earth. He made it...