A Gorgeous Orchestral Tribute to the Late Keith Flint of The Prodigy

The Kaleidoscope Orchestra of Manchester, U.K. performed an absolutely gorgeous medley of The Prodigy songs in tribute to the late, great Keith Flint who | Continue reading


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An Itchy Kitty Is Unable to Get in a Good Scratch Due to an Inconveniently Placed Computer Monitor

An evidently itchy tabby cat was unable to satisfy said itch due to an inconveniently placed computer monitor that prevented his foot from connecting with | Continue reading


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How Elements of the Classic Hero’s Journey Live Within the Iconic Led Zeppelin Song ‘Stairway to Heaven’

Noah LeFevre of Polyphonic has taken an extensive look into the iconic Led Zeppelin song Stairway to Heaven. Despite its somewhat ubiquity throughout the | Continue reading


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Dave Grohl Talks to Howard Stern About the Challenges of Working With Kurt Cobain In the Last Days of Nirvana

In 2011, Dave Grohl of The Foo Fighters and formerly of Nirvana, sat down with radio host Howard Stern to talk about his remarkable career of being in not | Continue reading


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An Elderly Porcupine With Only One Remaining Tooth Samples a Variety of Fruits to Determine His Favorite

An 11 year old porcupine named Kemosabe who lives at Animal Wonders in Montana sampled a wide variety of sweet fruits to not only determine whether or not | Continue reading


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K9 Cinemas, A Pet-Friendly Movie Theater in Texas That Shows Dog-Themed Films and Serves Free Wine

K9 Cinemas in Plano, Texas is a wonderful pet-friendly theater that shows dog-themed movies seven days per week. While being able to bring your dog to the | Continue reading


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Retiring Mercedes-Benz CEO Goes For a Drive in a New BMW After Saying Goodbye to His Employees

BMW poked lighthearted, but respectable fun at Daimler in a touching tribute to retiring Mercedes-Benz CEO Dieter Zetsche on his last day of work. A | Continue reading


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Traffic Waits As Pedestrians Help a Flock of Hundreds of Ducks Waddle Across a Busy Bangladesh Road

Pedestrians held up blue plastic sheeting across a busy road in Sirajganj, Bangladesh in order to stop two-way traffic in its place and create a safe | Continue reading


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A Five Minute Tirade of Profane Insults Uttered by The Hound During All Eight Seasons of ‘Game of Thrones’

In memory of the recently concluded series Game of Thrones, Supercuts Delight (previously) has edited together five wonderfully profane minutes of the | Continue reading


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Trying to Swim in a 15 Ton JELLO Swimming Pool

In 2016, former NASA engineer Mark Rober and The Backyard Scientist filled up a backyard swimming pool with 25 million Orbeez water balls. On that same | Continue reading


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Samsung AI Machine Learning Turns Mona Lisa and Other Famous Portraits Into Realistic Talking Heads

Researchers at the Samsung AI Center in Moscow, Russia have quite amazingly turned Mona Lisa and other famous subjects of photos and art into realistic | Continue reading


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McHive, A Tiny Replica of a McDonald’s That Also Serves As a Fully Functioning Beehive

Several McDonald's in Sweden have been putting beehives on their rooftops in order to safely house and replenish the worldwide dwindling bee population. | Continue reading


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Dedicated Father Captures 13 Years of His Daughter’s First Day of School From Kindergarten to Senior Year

In 2017, dedicated dad Kevin Scruggs shared a wonderful compilation of interviews he conducted with daughter Mackenzie on the first day of school from | Continue reading


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A Bipedal Robot That Makes Front Door Deliveries After Being Transported to the Curb by a Self-Driving Vehicle

In February 2019, Agility Robotics announced the development of Digit, an anthropomorphic version of their bipedal robot Cassie. Digit sports an upper | Continue reading


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A Raft of Sea Otters Perform an Unintentionally Synchronized Backstroke Routine Across an Inlet

An absolutely adorable raft of Southern sea otters at the Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing, California, happily performed an unintentional synchronized | Continue reading


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Captain Jean-Luc Picard Explains Why He Left Starfleet Over Some Wine in the CBS All Access Series ‘Picard’

A teaser for the upcoming CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard shows a retired Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation walking | Continue reading


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Playdate, A Retro Yellow Crank Controlled Handheld Gaming System With a Black and White Screen

Panic, the company behind Transmit, Coda and the adventure game Firewatch, teamed-up with Teenage Engineering to create Playdate, their unique version of | Continue reading


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San Francisco Engineer Accidentally Dosed by LSD While Repairing a Vintage 1960s Buchla Synthesizer

While repairing a vintage Buchla synthesizer from the 1960s, KPIX broadcast operations manager and instrument repair volunteer Eliot Curtis came across an | Continue reading


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Banksy Sets Up a Street Stall at the Venice Biennale With Art Critical of the Canal’s Cruise Ship Problems

During the Venice Biennale 2019 art exhibition, elusive street artist Bansky stealthily set up a stall along artist's row to feature multi-panel artwork | Continue reading


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Student Bravely Shares His Struggle With Sleep Paralysis Hallucinations in a Haunting Animation

Art student Andrew Ognibene bravely documented and shared his truly frightening struggle with sleep paralysis and associated hallucinations in a haunting | Continue reading


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New Exquisitely Detailed Balloon Animal Sculptures by Japanese Artist Masayoshi Matsumoto

In 2015, we wrote about the amazingly detailed colorful balloon animals by Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto. Since that time Matsumoto has created | Continue reading


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An Amazing One Minute Timelapse of a Self-Tweeting Plant Slowly Growing Over the Course of Three Years

In 2016, Brooklyn game designer Nicole He set up a meditative experiment in which a webcam would take a picture of a fiddle-leaf fig plant she named Grow | Continue reading


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The Science Behind a Hummingbird’s Hover

Nat Geo WILD takes a look at how tiny hummingbirds are able to hover in midair for so long while feeding in place. As it turns out these petite aviators | Continue reading


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A Visual MIDI Remix of the Game of Thrones Theme

Musician GBH has created a Synthesia keyboard remix of the Game of Thrones theme (previously) with a colorful interface that visually tracks the progress | Continue reading


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Moon Shining, A Brilliant Mashup That Reimagines the Iconic Apollo 11 Landing as Directed by Stanley Kubrick

French filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu, who makes brilliant mashups with clever titles, has combined footage from the Apollo 11 mission (previously) with | Continue reading


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Jaime Lannister Joins the ‘Full House’ Family

Now that Game of Thrones has ended, the talk of spinoff series is reaching fever pitch. One such idea, as envisioned by Jimmy Kimmel Live, has Jaime | Continue reading


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An Autonomous Self-Service Robotic Chef That Prepares Customized Omelettes on Demand

Vlogger and podcaster Ankit Vengurlekar of Gadget Wala watched as a robotic chef mixed, scrambled, flipped and served an omelette that he customized with | Continue reading


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The Grantham Family and Staff Prepare the Estate for a Royal Visit in the Highly-Awaited ‘Downton Abbey’ Film

Just five years after the viewing audience parted ways with the enormously popular Julian Fellowes series Downton Abbey, a new feature film of the same | Continue reading


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TV Star and His Stunt Double Explore the Last Days of the Golden Age in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’

Sony Pictures has released the trailer for Quentin Tarantino's 9th film entitled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (previously) in which a television actor | Continue reading


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Robotic Robot Rock Band Compressorhead Performs the Classic Nirvana Anthem ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

The robotic band Compressorhead (previously) played a truly heavy metal cover of the classic grunge anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. The | Continue reading


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The History of the Disappearance and Reappearance of San Francisco’s Original 49 Mile Scenic Drive Signs

Filmmaker Bradley Smith delved into the wonderful history of the iconic signs for San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive. These signs were designed for a | Continue reading


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A Unique Clock That Uses a Sequence of Colors Rather Than Numerals to Tell the Time

Oxford, UK design firm Clark and Steel has created The Color Clock, a novel device that uses specific sequences of color rather than numerals to tell the | Continue reading


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‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Animator Shares Her Reference Videos for Several Scenes From the Film

Animator Emma Shih shared the reference video she used while working on the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The video shows Shih imitating the | Continue reading


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A Flip Cup Fluid Art Tutorial Using 24 Paints Resulting in a Gorgeous Landscape of Cellular Color

The resident artist of Arts and Crafts Studio demonstrated the fascinating "Flip Cup" fluid art technique using a cup, acrylic paint, floetrol, and | Continue reading


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Deepfake of Bill Hader Morphing Into Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger While Impersonating Them

Slovakian video editor Ctrl Shift Face has quite seamless (and somewhat disturbingly) employed deepfake software to morph comedian Bill Hader's face into | Continue reading


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Testing Out a Drone’s Obstacle Avoidance Recognition Using a One Way Game of Dodgeball

Researchers at the University of Zurich Department of Neuroinformatics played a unique one way game of dodgeball with a drone that was mounted with an | Continue reading


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Why Knuckles Make a Popping Sound When Stretched

In a snappy Ted-Ed lesson written by Eleanor Nelsen and animated by Belfer Creative, narrator Addison Anderson explains exactly why knuckles and other | Continue reading


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An Animated History of England

As part of his ongoing series of animated history videos, vlogger James Suibhne of Subhine (previously) has created a detailed animation that captures the | Continue reading


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Artificial Olfaction Expert Explains Why Dog’s Sense of Smell is Still Superior to Any Amount of Computer Code

In a fragrant video essay for Wired, senior writer Emily Dreyfuss speaks with MIT professor Andreas Mershin. Mershin is the expert authority on artificial | Continue reading


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A Snoring Cat Hilariously Amplified With a Microphone

A sleeping orange Persian cat named Mr. Gold was snoring so loudly he was distracting the human from getting any work done, so his human turned on a | Continue reading


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How to Ask Another Person for Reassurance Without Appearing to Be Desperate for Their Approval

The School of Life (previously) explains why the very human need for reassurance can also be terrifying and bring about discomfiting abandonment and | Continue reading


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Brazilian Veterinarians Fit Baby Armadillo With Customized Wheelchair For His Paralyzed Back Legs

A baby armadillo named Bonilha was rescued from the side of a South Brazil road after losing his the use of his hind legs and nearly starving to death. | Continue reading


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Painstakingly Programming a Really Old Doorbell to Play ‘Megalovania’ From the Video Game ‘Undertale’

Game music guitarist Jules Conroy of Family Jules discovered that the San Diego house in which he was living had a really old doorbell that could be | Continue reading


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A Teeny Tiny Shrek Successfully Completes the Westminster Dog Show Agility Course in Record Time

Video game editor Chanbahni very cleverly reimagined footage from the Westminster Dog Show by replacing the canine in the scene with a teeny tiny Shrek | Continue reading


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How Honey Reacts to Microgravity in Space

Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques took some time out of his day working on the International Space Station to open a container of honey | Continue reading


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Cookie Monster Practices Self-Control, Denying Himself the Pleasure of Eating Cookies Until His Friend Arrives

A famished Cookie Monster joined NPR Education reporter Cory Turner for what he thought would be a nice plate of cookies to enjoy. Instead, Cookie Monster | Continue reading


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A Look Inside the Reconstructed Eero Saarinen Mid-Century Modern TWA Hotel at John F. Kennedy Airport

We previously wrote about the former TWA Flight Center designed by Eero Saarinen at JFK Airport as it was being renovated into a lavish 1962 style retro | Continue reading


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Aaron Paul Joins ‘Westworld III’ as a Construction Worker Trying to Remain Human in a World of Robots

In a teaser trailer for the third season of the HBO series Westworld, a weary blue collar worker (Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad) tries to hang onto his sense | Continue reading


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