How Rod Serling Used Allegory to Make Episodes of ‘The Twilight Zone’ Feel Culturally Relevant

In an extremely insightful essay about the iconic original series The Twilight Zone, artist Zane Whitener of In Praise of Shadows takes a look at how | Continue reading


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Cosmologist Stephen Webb Addresses the Age Old Question About There Being Life on Other Planets

In April 2018, British cosmologist and astrobiologist Stephen Webb spoke to a Vancouver TedX audience about seeing a UFO as a child. This event, he | Continue reading


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‘The Mad Drummer’ Who Was at the Wrong Gig Decimates Kevin in a Drum Battle on ‘The Office’

In 2010, a dramatic drummer with a very distinct style became rather popular when a video of him playing surfaced with the caption "this drummer is at the | Continue reading


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Stunning Side-by-Side 4K Footage Showing How Visual Effects Can Completely Erase Signs of Aging

In 2015, digital compositor and visual effects artist Rousselos Aravantinos created an impressive age reduction demonstration with actress Michele Valley. | Continue reading


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How Psychotherapy Encourages the Vocalization of Self-Reflective Thoughts Without Judgement

The School of Life explains via animation "How Psychotherapy Works" despite its demanding schedule, by positing three different ways the therapist is able | Continue reading


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The Charming Actor Who Voiced the Irascible Homer Simpson in Spanish for ‘The Simpsons’ (1990-2005)

Great Big Story visited with the incredibly charming and very funny Humberto Vélez, who voiced the irascible Homer Simpson in the Spanish language version | Continue reading


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Why There Are Holes in Swiss Cheese

Geobeats offers a yummy bite size explanation as to why there are holes in Swiss cheese. Rather than it being from the ripening bacteria or pesky little | Continue reading


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Amazingly Clear Remastered Footage of an Amazing 1969 Jimi Hendrix Show in Stockholm, Sweden

In January of 1969, the late, great Jimi Hendrix performed at the Konserthuset in Stockholm, Sweden. For a long time, this amazing show was considered to | Continue reading


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Clever Packaging That Sorts Bananas According to Ripeness So They Can Be Properly Enjoyed Each Day

The Korean grocery store E-Mart has created a brilliant campaign that encourages people to eat one banana per day (Hana Hanana Banana). In order to make | Continue reading


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An Overjoyed Rescued Pet Duck Gleefully Greets Her Human at the Door When She Gets Home From Work

A really sweet rescued pet muscovy duck named Petunia who lives indoors, excitedly greeted her human Chantel Grant at the door when she came home from | Continue reading


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The Creative Strategies Used to Make Music for Super Nintendo Despite Severe Space Limitations

The very insightful video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter took a nostalgic look at Super Nintendo games of the past, how theme | Continue reading


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A Silly Husky Hilariously Pretends to Be a Revving Dirt Bike for His Motorcycle Riding Human

While visiting his parents, welder and motocross rider Greg Vannorden straddled his legs over a silly husky named Brodie and pretended to rev him up like | Continue reading


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Imaginative Man Builds a Video Game Inspired Folding Shed Door That Opens Geometrically

Warwick Turvey, a very handy logistics professional who lives in Mackay, Queensland, Australia built a really wonderful shed door that folds open and | Continue reading


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How the English Language Would Sound If Each Vowel Had a Single Consistent Phonetic Voicing

American composer, writer, director, and filmmaker Aaron Alon explains the difficulty of learning the English language, specifically in regard to the | Continue reading


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The Familiar Process of Endlessly Scrolling Through Netflix In Order to Just Find Something to Watch

In a hilarious video that hits close to home, vlogger James Rolfe of Cinemassacre shares the familiar process of scrolling endlessly through Netflix just | Continue reading


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An Intensely Focused K9 Police Dog Tries to Rip the Head Off a Jack-in-the-Box After It Pops Up

A focused police dog named Ammo who works for the Redondo Beach K9 Team, watched intensely as his human partner Officer Kyle Lofstrom slowly wound the | Continue reading


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Advance Your Design Career With Parsons at Open Campus

This post was sponsored by Parsons at Open Campus via Syndicate Ads. art & design courses and Parsons School of Design, recently named the Open Campus | Continue reading


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British Musician Performs a Brilliant Brass Cover of the Toto Song ‘Africa’ on Five Different Horns

In 2017, Seb Skelly, a very talented 22 year old musician who lives in North London, performed an amazing multi-track, brass sextet cover of the | Continue reading


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David Gilmour of Pink Floyd Shares How He Creates His Brilliantly Distinctive Sound on a Guitar

In a wonderful clip from a BBC documentary, the legendary David Gilmour of Pink Floyd talks about his brilliantly distinctive sound that he creates on | Continue reading


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How XOXO Became the Accepted Shorthand For the Affectionate Phrase of Hugs and Kisses

In a osculate episode of Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains how XOXO became the accepted shorthand for the term hugs and kisses. While the | Continue reading


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Why People Find Comfort in Lonely, Desolate Places

In a geographic episode of their wonderful animated series, the very perceptive School of Life explains why certain people eschew more populated places | Continue reading


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How an Effective Story Can Be Told in a Film Without the Main Character Undergoing a Life Changing Arc

In a cinematically defiant video essay, Sage Hyden of Just Write explains why, despite common teachings, a good story doesn't have to require the main | Continue reading


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The Hard Driving Riffs That Make ‘Killing in the Name’ by Rage Against the Machine So Powerful

The very talented doodling music theorist 12tone braved the hard driving riffs of the anthemic Rage Against the Machine song "Killing In the Name" in | Continue reading


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Seth MacFarlane Hilariously Sings Cyndi Lauper Songs in ‘Family Guy’ Voices As He Sits Beside Her

While appearing on the wonderful Graham Norton Show in 2015 and seated next to the legendary Cyndi Lauper, actor, writer and comedian Seth MacFarlane | Continue reading


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A Tiny Island In the Gulf of Maine That Remains a Disputed Gray Zone Between the U.S. and Canada

We recently posted about the tiny country that once existed between the United States and Canada which was thought to be resolved in 1835 and ratified in | Continue reading


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Marvel Studios Is Celebrating Their 10th Anniversary by Screening All 20 MCU Films in IMAX Theaters

Marvel Studios is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a film festival featuring all 20 films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe screened in IMAX | Continue reading


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What Every State in the US is Best and Worst At

RealLifeLore looks at what each of the 50 US states are best and worst at. How does your state | Continue reading


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Co-Owner of Last Remaining Shoe Manufacturer in Britain Shares His Plans for a Post-Brexit Economy

Caters News sat down with Dennis Crompton, who is the co-owner of Norman Walsh footwear in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK to talk about the history of the | Continue reading


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Disturbingly Stylized Polymer Clay Macarons With Anthropomorphic Faces of Babies Molded on Top

A post shared by QIXUAN LIM (@qimmyshimmy) on Sep 13, 2017 at 11:47pm PDT We very recently posted about Ashley Newman's fabulously disconcerting facial | Continue reading


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How Hank Schrader of ‘Breaking Bad’ Became a Real Hero in a World of Sympathetic Anti-Heroes

As part of their ongoing series of deconstructing the rich symbolism and character development within the sublime AMC series Breaking Bad, film and | Continue reading


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A More Efficient Way to Use a Traditional Can Opener

A clever couple in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania demonstrated an alternative way to employ the use of a traditional can opener that was not only extremely | Continue reading


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Artist Installs Bright Yellow Illusory Concentric Circles on the French Fortified City of Carcassonne

A post shared by felice varini (@felicevarini) on Apr 21, 2018 at 11:31pm PDT Site-specific Swiss artist Felice Varini installed giant, bright yellow, | Continue reading


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How to Best Name Cats in Such a Way That They Respond More Quickly to Their Beloved Humans

Dr. Uri Burstyn, aka the Helpful Vancouver Vet, who previously demonstrated several different ways in which to properly pick up a cat and hold him like a | Continue reading


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A Tiny Country That Once Existed For Three Years Between U.S. and Canada Due to Border Disputes

Half as Interesting explains in fascinating detail about the Republic of Indian Stream, a very short-lived country that sat between New Hampshire and | Continue reading


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UC Davis Engineering Students on a Shoestring Budget Build a Clever Robot That Can Tie Shoes

University of California Davis students Andrew Choi, Gabriela Gomes, Jacklyn Tran, Stephanie Thai and Joel Humes were challenged to make something with | Continue reading


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How to Break the Space Time Continuum With an Atmospheric Wormhole Made From Scratch

In a postern episode of their incredibly insightful and fascinating animations, the ever-philosophical design house Kurzgesagt posits the efficacy of the | Continue reading


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Deaf People Explain the Precious Balance of Using Technology to Hear While Maintaining Their Identity

In an opinion piece for the New York Times, filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky, the daughter of deaf parents and mother of a deaf son, sat in conversation | Continue reading


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A Playful Sheep Gleefully Bounces and Down Upon a Backyard Trampoline on a New Zealand Farm

A pet sheep named Bacon who lives on a Marlborough, New Zealand farm with his human Vanessa Anderson and family discovered a trampoline out in the | Continue reading


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British Singer Blesses the Rains in Scandinavia in a Hilarious Black Metal Cover of the Toto Song ‘Africa’

The classic 1982 Toto song "Africa" has been getting a great deal of attention as of late. Aside from being declared the "internet's favorite song", it | Continue reading


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Why Victims of Shaming Blame Themselves Rather Than Holding Their Cruel Tormentors Accountable

In a gently consoling animation, the consistently insightful School of Life, explains how victims of shaming are more likely to turn that shame on | Continue reading


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How Leonard Cohen Employed Biblical Metaphors to Truly Convey the Beauty, Power and Pain of Love

In a brilliantly detailed analysis, the knowledgeable music essayist Polyphonic takes a deep dive into the way in which the late, great Leonard Cohen | Continue reading


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Brilliant 3D Drawings That Jump Right Off the Page With Creative Paper Folding, Tearing and Stacking

A post shared by HuskMitNavn (@huskmitnavn1) on Jul 24, 2018 at 9:07am PDT Danish artist HuskMitNavn (Remember My Name), who's work we've written about in | Continue reading


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Converted Minivan Rides the Rails Through Vaser Valley in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania

The Vaser Valley Railway is a narrow passageway through forest of the Carpathian Mountains in rural Mamures County in northern Romania. Much of the | Continue reading


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An Elderly Cat Returns Home to Her Beloved Human Over 13 Years After Mysteriously Going Missing

In 2005, Janet Adamowicz had let her adorable 4 year old tabby named Boo outdoors and then never heard from her again. Brokenhearted, Adamowicz looked | Continue reading


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QTrobot, An Emotionally Expressive Robot That Socially Engages With Children Who Have Autism

The LuxAI QTrobot is a wonderful humanoid robot that socially interacts with children who have different forms of autism. The QT is emotionally expressive | Continue reading


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A Fascinating List of Autonomic Functions That Occur Within Human Bodies Every 60 Seconds

That narrator of a fascinating episode of the animated Infographics Show explains the complexity of the human body, focusing specifically on what occurs | Continue reading


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Foo Fighters Dave Grohl Plays Every Instrument on a Live 23 Minute Multi-Track Original Instrumental

In the film Play, former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl narrates a short clip about "Join the Band", a youth-oriented music camp | Continue reading


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A Cute Cat Loves Snuggling With Fresh Peaches

A post shared by Ozzy and Darcy (@ozzyanddarcy) on Aug 5, 2018 at 8:19am PDT A very cute Siamese/tabby mix named Ozzy has a thing for peaches. He loves | Continue reading


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