A Beautiful Hand Cut Paper Zoetrope That Shows the Full Metamorphosis of a Caterpillar to Butterfly

Dutch artists Veerle Coppoolse is crafting an absolutely beautiful hand cut 3D paper zoetrope that shows the multi-step metamorphosis of a caterpillar | Continue reading


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An Amazing Drivable 1:1 Life Size Bugatti Chiron Replica Made Entirely From LEGO Technology

LEGO and Bugatti have achieved what was thought to be impossible. Using their LEGO Bugatti Chiron kit as a guide, the engineers at LEGO Technic created an | Continue reading


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How to Write Lyrics That Convey Desired Emotional Resonance With the Use of Rhymes and Accents

The fast talking doodling music theorist and musician 12tone stepped away from the scale in order to explain how best to use various forms of rhymes (end | Continue reading


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A Disconcerting Installation Featuring 20 Blinking Kinetic Eyeballs That Track People Around a Room

San Francisco artist Chris Eckert, who wanted to make a point of increasing surveillance and decreasing privacy of the population, has created "Blink", an | Continue reading


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Ryan Gosling Plays Astronaut Neil Armstrong as He Prepares to Be the ‘First Man’ to Walk on the Moon

The Damien Chazelle directed film First Man, adapted from the James R. Hansen biography of the same name, tells the story of Apollo 11, the first manned | Continue reading


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An Astute Dog Figures Out How to Use the Backyard Trampoline to Play a Game of Fetch With Himself

A rather astute dog named Bear noticed that when his ball landed on the backyard trampoline, he was able to run underneath and bounce it along the jumping | Continue reading


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Cranky Iceberg-Dwelling Witch Gives Her Frozen Heart to a Lonely Merman Who Wants to Be Friends

In the spectacular award-winning animated film short "Fishwitch" by stop motion artist Adrienne Dowling, a rather cranky witch who lives alone on an | Continue reading


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Horse Becomes Infatuated With a Plastic Statue That Looks Just Like a Smaller Version of Him

While out walking with his young human, an elegant black horse caught the sight of a plastic statue that looked exactly like him, but on a much smaller | Continue reading


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Pennsylvania Pretzel Maker Creates Incredibly Detailed Custom 3D Art Out of Salted Dough

A post shared by Pretzel Factory Langhorne (@ppflanghorne) on Oct 25, 2017 at 9:11am PDT Brothers Brian Kean and Shaun Kean, who own the Langhorne, | Continue reading


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How the Insecurity of Imposter Syndrome Makes Incredibly Successful People Feel Inferior to Others

In a delphic Ted-Ed lesson written by educator Elizabeth Cox and animated by Gerta Xhelo, narrator Christina Greer talks about "Imposter Syndrome", a | Continue reading


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A Clever Hammer That Auto-Dispenses Its Own Nails

Freelance automotive and product designer Michael David Young has spent the past six years perfecting the design of his incredibly clever "Hammer with | Continue reading


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How the Words Used For Numbers in Languages Around the World Often Have Anatomical Roots

In a numenary episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O'Neill verbally and | Continue reading


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Bookstore and Library Customers Around the World Pose to Visually Complete Book Cover Images

A post shared by The New York Public Library (@nypl) on Aug 24, 2018 at 10:23am PDT Taking inspiration from the wonderful Librairie Mollat photo series | Continue reading


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A Giant Swarm of Overheated Honey Bees Descend Upon a Times Square Hot Dog Cart Umbrella

An incredible heat wave hitting New York City during this last week of August has caused most sentient beings in the area searching for cooler air | Continue reading


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A Deliciously Terrifying Cthulhu Expertly Carved From a Watermelon

The very talented Italian sculptor Valeriano Fatica expertly carved a watermelon into a deliciously terrifying replica of the famously facially tentacled | Continue reading


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World Record Holder Limbos Under an Airport Seat While Waiting For Her Flight Home

In January 2018, while waiting at Philadelphia International Airport for a flight back to her home in Buffalo, New York, two-time limbo Guinness World | Continue reading


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Restored 1934 Footage of a Gathering of 375 Victorian Couples Married for 50 or More Years

Guy Jones, about whom we've written previously, skillfully restored vintage 1934 Movietone footage of a Long Beach, California gathering of 375 couples | Continue reading


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How Burning Man Nurtures the Kind of Interactive Primal Artwork Created Solely For the Sake of Art

Nora Atkinson, the craft curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, gave an insightful TED talk to a Vancouver audience about the | Continue reading


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Cat Camp, Petite Indoor/Outdoor Tents for Felines

A pair of Australian entrepreneurs have created Cat Camp, a wonderful line of adorably petite, feline sized beds that look just like human tents. These | Continue reading


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A Beautifully Edited Re-Imagination of ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ as a Chill-Hop Video

Musician John D. Boswell, who's also known as "Melodysheep", has brilliantly re-imagined the soundtrack from the iconic 1971 film Willy Wonka & the | Continue reading


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Remote Controlled Bronco Trucks That Appear Life Sized Expertly Navigate a Rocky Northwest Beach

Pacific Northwest based remote control hobbyists Another RC Channel posted absolutely amazing slow motion footage of RC Broncos Trucks that appear | Continue reading


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A Tenacious Stretch Armstrong Resists Mightily Against the Incoming Blades of a Hydraulic Dicer

A particularly tenacious Stretch Armstrong action figure resists mightily against the incoming blades of Lauri Vuohensilta's "Cubinator" 150 Ton hydraulic | Continue reading


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Carnivores Rhett and Link Review Eight Different Veggie Burgers In Time for Labor Day Weekend

In an end-of-summer Labor Day-themed Good Mythical Morning, the carnivorous comedy duo Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal of Rhett & Link sample a variety of | Continue reading


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The Space Song, A Catchy Animated Educational Song About the Planets of the Solar System

Clare Julia and Si Bennett of Planet Custard and Egg Cup Creative, the team behind videos for such bands as Muse, The Charlatans and Guns N Roses, have | Continue reading


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Adorably Short-Legged Basset Hounds Hilariously Race Each Other Down a Professional Horse Track

On August 18, 2018, the Canterbury Park, a professional horse racing track and casino in Shakopee Minnesota, held adorable qualifying heats for racing | Continue reading


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Snoring Fox Emits Adorable Trilling Sounds While Sleeping Upside Down on a Cabinet Shelf

A beloved rescued pet fox named Juniper, who is the "Happiest Fox", emits the most adorable trilling sound while sleeping upside down inside the bottom | Continue reading


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A Mischievous Dog Brings a Running Garden Hose Inside the House Through the Patio Door

In July 2018, we wrote about an overheated puppy named Baloo in Texas who dragged the sprinkler through the doggy door and into the house. Since that time | Continue reading


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Peter Dinklage Plays Hervé Villechaize During His Final Days in the HBO Film ‘My Dinner with Hervé’

In 1993, Hervé Villechaize, the diminutive star of Fantasy Island granted his last interview just days before his tragic suicide in 1993. The interviewer, | Continue reading


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How a Specific Combination of Repetition and Variety Works to Make Pop Songs So Catchy

Derek Thompson, author of Hitmakers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction and senior editor at The Atlantic, explains how a specific combination of | Continue reading


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Expert Dance Moves Transferred to an Amateur Using AI Re-Targeted Source Motion Mapping

Researchers at UC Berkeley have ingeniously discovered a way to transfer expert dance moves to an amateur on video, essentially giving them the talent of | Continue reading


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A Wonderfully Touching Video Tribute to the Life of Legendary Playwright Neil Simon (1927-2018)

With the sad news about the death of legendary playwright Neil Simon at the age of 91, The New York Times posted a wonderfully touching video tribute that | Continue reading


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Aging Investigator Tries to Recall the Details of His Biggest Case in ‘True Detective’ Season 3 Teaser

In the decade spanning teaser trailer for the third season of the HBO series True Detective, an aging Arkansas investigator named Wayne Hays (Mahershala | Continue reading


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Determined Little Tortoise Adorably Follows a Feline Friend Inside the House Through the Cat Door

A little tortoise sitting outside on a straw mat watched closely as a feline friend easily entered into the house through a flap in the door and decided | Continue reading


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An Incredible Compilation of the Most Popular Song in the U.S.A. Each Year From 1940 Through 2017

Video editor Sutherland has put together an incredible compilation of the most popular song each year in the United States, beginning with the year 1940 | Continue reading


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Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of R.E.M. Explain the Meaning of Their Iconic Song ‘Losing My Religion’

In December 2017, some members of R.E.M. sat down with the Dutch NTR station Top 2000 a gogo to discuss the meaning behind one of the bands most iconic | Continue reading


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How ‘No Country For Old Men’ Uses Behavior Rather Than Dialogue to Establish Character and Plot

Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay took a look at the sublime now-classic Coen Brothers film No Country for Old Men, specifically | Continue reading


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An Amazing Array of Cleverly Animated, Endlessly Looping Colorful Virtual Contraptions

Swedish designer and motion graphics artist Andreas Wannerstedt has filled his Instagram feed with an amazing array of very clever, continuously looping, | Continue reading


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Three Transgender People Share Their Stories Against a Beautifully Rotoscoped ‘Flash Flood’

In the beautifully rotoscoped animation entitled "Flash Flood", filmmaker Alli Mackay interviews three transgender people who share their stories about | Continue reading


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Ancient Scotland, A Stunning Aerial Film Taken Over the Older, More Remote Parts of the Country

In the third installment of his beautiful aerial films shot over Scotland, filmmaker John Duncan flew his DJI Inspire 2 over 21 different locations in the | Continue reading


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How Holographic Directed Light Can Work With Human Translucency to See Deep Inside the Body

Pioneering engineer, inventor, philanthropist, former Facebook/Google executive and MIT professor Mary Lou Jepsen gave a truly enlightening TED talk in | Continue reading


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A Marvelous Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Visual Effects Used in Avengers: Infinity War

Framestore, the British production house that created the visual effects for the Marvel MCU film Avengers: Infinity War, provided a marvelous | Continue reading


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A Stunning Dry Forest in Madagascar Made Entirely of Jagged Peaked Limestone Towers

Great Big Story traveled to the western coast of Madagascar to visit the incredible Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, a stunning 230 mile dry | Continue reading


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Simon’s Cat Wages War on Feline Bully Next Door

While Simon's Cat is in the yard playing with his ball, it rolls over the "borderline that separates the yard next door from his". As he's attempting to | Continue reading


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A Mysterious Bottle of Wendy’s Meat Soda (With a Hint of Ketchup) Is Found in a Grocery Drink Cooler

A post shared by Obvious Plant (@obviousplant) on Aug 17, 2018 at 10:47am PDT Comedian Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant is back with another store prank - | Continue reading


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Baker Inspired by the Anthropomorphic Human Face Pot Pies Makes a Creepy Edible Version of His Own

A post shared by Andrew Fuller (@guymeetscake) on Aug 7, 2018 at 3:05pm PDT Earlier this month we wrote about Ashley Newman's pot pies which featured | Continue reading


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Gorgeous Deep Sea Photography of Luminous Plankton Floating Through Dark Japanese Waters

A post shared by Ryo Minemizu (@seacam1970) on Aug 4, 2017 at 6:42pm PDT Deep sea photographer Ryo Minemizu has captured absolutely gorgeous shots of | Continue reading


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An Animated Explanation of the Medical and Pharmacological Causes of Hallucinations

In a chimeric Ted-Ed lesson written by educator Elizabeth Cox and animated by Nerdo, narrator Susan Zimmerman explains what causes hallucinations, what | Continue reading


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Neil deGrasse Tyson Challenges Chaser the Border Collie to Retrieve a Doll She’d Never Seen Before

On an adorable 2012 episode of the PBS series NOVAScience, popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson challenged Chaser, the amazing border collie who | Continue reading


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