TEDx Presenter Hypnotizes the Audience to Test Whether or Not the Power of Suggestion Works

While speaking at a 2016 TEDxQueensSU event, hypnotist and filmmaker Albert Nerenberg offered an amusing presentation that tested whether or not the | Continue reading


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Amazing Timelapse of an Incredibly Steep Downhill Ride on a Cable Train From High in the Swiss Alps

Swiss photographer Raphaël Sandoz captured an incredible timelapse of the gorgeous downhill ride on Gelmer Funicular, a cable-traction train that begins | Continue reading


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Skilled DIY Craftsman Shares How to Make a Beautiful Micro Chess Set Out of Brass and Wood

DIY craftsman Levsha graciously shared a video showing his step-by-step process for building a beautiful micro sized chess set set out of shiny brass and | Continue reading


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A Magician’s Tricks Are Repeatedly Spoiled by a Silent Humorless Friend Who Reveals His Secrets

While magician Ah Gan was demonstrating a series of tricks on video, his rather humorless friend repeatedly revealed the secrets behind said tricks in | Continue reading


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Brilliantly Imaginative Short Films That Explain the Internal Mechanisms Inside Complex Machines

Motion and graphic designer Florent Porta has created "Les Machines Impossibles", a series of five short films that brilliantly imagine what goes on with | Continue reading


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The Clever Ways in Which Solitary Octopuses Use Their Bodies To Communicated With Each Other

In an aquatic episode of The New York Times series ScienceTake from 2015, host James Gorman share some very interesting informationusing research from | Continue reading


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The Revolving Internet, A Site That Sends Google Search Pages In Slow Circles Around the Screen

The Revolving Internet is a fun, slightly dizzying site that sends the Google search page in slow moving constant turns around the computer screen. Even | Continue reading


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Renowned Architect Frank Gehry Shares His Passion for Giving His Buildings With a Sense of Movement

Filmmaker Emile Rafael sat down with renowned architect Frank Gehry in front of his iconic namesake Spruce Street building in Manhattan to talk about his | Continue reading


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How Rainbow Colored Candy Sprinkles Are Made

A very informative video by Food Insider/The Science Channel shows the fascinating process by which rainbow colored candy sprinkles are made, what they | Continue reading


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Police Detective is Fondly Remembered by Daughter and Grandson for Standing Up for What’s Right

In the animated "Detective Simmons" by StoryCorps, the amazing oral history project that provides recording booths for people to tell their own life | Continue reading


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How Meandearing Quintal Harmonies Give the Song ‘Message In a Bottle’ a Sense of Being Lost at Sea

Doodling music theorist and musician 12tone took a deep dive into the classic song "Message in a Bottle" by The Police. He astutely focuses on the song's | Continue reading


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Two Fragile Volunteers Take Part in a Mind Bending Pharmaceutical Trial in the Netflix Series ‘Maniac’

In the trailer for the limited Cary Joji Fukunaga Netflix series Maniac, Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill) and Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) are two mentally | Continue reading


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Thousands of Fish Swarm Diver in a Mesmerizing Bait Ball to Ward Off an Incoming Whale Shark

While diving in the beautiful blue waters of Hurghada, Egypt, an unsuspecting diver named Tobias Sachs found himself at the center of an absolutely | Continue reading


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How ‘The Office’ Jim Halpert’s Evolving Hairstyle Mirrored the Trajectory of His Happiness

The Ringer took a look at the development of the beloved Jim Halpert throughout the entirety of the American version The Office, noting how his personal | Continue reading


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An Amazing Real Life Spinning Human Zoetrope

The video makers at Corridor Digital partnered with Google to create an amazing human replication of a spinning zoetrope without employing any special | Continue reading


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Street Musician Performs Brilliant Covers of Classic Pink Floyd Songs In Front of the Pantheon in Rome

A talented street musician named Serin in Rome is becoming known for his incredible covers of classic Pink Floyd songs, which he performs right in front | Continue reading


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Incredible 3D Illusion Anamorphic Street Murals of Insects That Appear to Be Popping Off the Walls

A post shared by ODEITH (@odeith) on Jul 16, 2018 at 11:37am PDT In April 2015, we wrote | Continue reading


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Four Microphones Keep a PID Controlled Ball Bouncing on Plate Machine For as Long as Possible

Electrical engineer Tobias Kuhn of Electron Dust has created a neat Arduino project in which he used four microphones to keep PID controlled ping pong | Continue reading


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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs an Incredible Cover of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ in NYC

While performing at the Le Poisson Rouge in New York City in April 2018, the incredibly talented Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain live streamed a | Continue reading


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A Fascinating Timelapse Captured Inside 24 Hours of Life on the Dusty Playa at Burning Man 2017

As he's done in previous years, San Francisco filmmaker Mark Day created a fascinating video featuring 24 hours on the dusty playa during Burning Man | Continue reading


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A Relaxed Man Rides the New York City Subway in the Utmost Comfort Upon a Brown Leather Couch

On Monday, July 30, 2018, unsuspecting New York City subway passengers a were surprised to find a gentleman seated upon a leather couch in a most relaxed | Continue reading


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Turkish Airlines Enlists the Characters of ‘The LEGO Movie’ to Present Their In-Flight Safety Briefing

Over the years, different airlines have tried different ways to make their in-flight safety briefings more interesting. In 2018, Turkish Airlines did the | Continue reading


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Fabulously Disconcerting Anthropomorphic Human Faces Baked Into the Top of Handmade Pot Pies

Horror artist Ashley Newman of "It Came From Under My Bed" has created a fabulously disconcerting series of pot pies with realistic, anthropomorphic faces | Continue reading


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The Most Unsatisfying Video in the World Part Two

Luksand Wunder has created a frustratingly brilliant second part to the original The Most Unsatisfying Video in the World Ever Made, which again features | Continue reading


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50 Hilarious Ways to Get Into a Pool

Stop-motion animator Kevin Parry of LAIKA (The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings), who has demonstrated numerous ways one can sit on a chair, enter a | Continue reading


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Filmmaker Learns About the Healing Power of Whistling Through People He Met at a Competition

Filmmaker Ien Chi of the 2011 film "Tick Tock", decided that he wanted to "ditch school to whistle", basically taking time off to participate in an | Continue reading


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Percussionist Plays Unrolled Reel-to-Reel Tape Like a Drum to Achieve a Unique Electronic Sound

Yoshida Haruka of the Open Reel Ensemble showed how he plays unrolled reel-to-reel tape like a drum to achieve a unique electronic sound. Known as "tape | Continue reading


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Wonderfully Interpretive Paper Collages Depicting Popular Cats and Dogs of Instagram

A post shared by Lola Dupre (@loladupre) on Jul 18, 2018 at 8:01am PDT Artist Lola Dupre has created a wonderful series of interpretive, hand paneled | Continue reading


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A Cleverly Designed Robotic Ukulele Eerily Plays a Haunting Cover of ‘The Godfather’ Theme

The UkuRobot, a very cleverly designed robotic ukulele, eerily performed a haunting cover of the "Love Theme" from the iconic film The Godfather in an | Continue reading


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A Lonely Guarded Blind Bison Finds a Best Friend in a Young Jersey Cow at an Oregon Sanctuary

A post shared by Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary (@lighthousefarmsanctuary) on Apr 10, 2018 at 7:19pm PDT For three years, a blind bison named Helen was at the | Continue reading


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A Dramatic Demonstration of a Macro Probe Lens Shown From the Perspective of a Moving Bullet

The filmmakers of Macro Room offered a dramatic demonstration of the extreme macro capabilities of an Laowa Probe Lens as shown from the perspective of a | Continue reading


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The Sheer Genius of Mel Blanc Voicing Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck Impersonating Each Other

During an interview, Hank Azaria reflected on the sheer genius of the legendary Mel Blanc, the signature voice of Looney Tunes during the Golden Age of | Continue reading


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A Shiny Skyscraper in Guiyang, China Features an Incredible 108 Meter Waterfall Built Into the Exterior

A shiny new skyscraper with an incredible artificial waterfall cascading 108 meters (350 feet) down has joined the Guiyang, China skyline. This building, | Continue reading


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A Boy Builds a Colorful LEGO Duck Pull Toy Using Materials Made Entirely Out of LEGO Bricks

In the third episode of "Lego in Real Life" by BrickBrosProductions, the same boy who prepared a yummy breakfast out of LEGO bricks, tried his hand at | Continue reading


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An Affable Elephant and Her Human Make Frequent Visits to a Kind Neighbor For Some Yummy Treats

Almost every day, a really affable elephant named Lekshmi and her human Kannan make frequent visits to the family of Baiju Attukal, kind neighbors who | Continue reading


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Why It’s Impossible to Know if a Situation Is Good or Bad Without Seeing How It Will Affect the Future

In another brilliantly illustrated episode of After Skool, British philosopher Alan W. Watts, who previously posited that life should not be considered a | Continue reading


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An Experienced Accordionist Explains Why There Are So Many Buttons on the Instrument

British accordion expert Leslie Thompson gave a really wonderful explanation about the instrument, specifically why there's such a large range of bass | Continue reading


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A Fascinating Experiment Showing How Dogs React When They Perceive Their Human to Be in Distress

Animal behaviorists Julia E. Meyers-Manor, Emily M. Sanford and Emma R. Burt conducted a fascinating experiment in which individual humans sat in a room | Continue reading


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How a Blind Electrical Engineer Was Inspired by His Inefficient Driver to Invent Cruise Control

Great Big Story tells the remarkable history of Ralph Teeter, a brilliant electrical engineer who needed to rely upon others to drive him around due to | Continue reading


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Musician Joe Walsh Hilariously Explains the Meaning of ‘Life’s Been Good’ to a Live Audience

While performing at The Troubadour in Hollywood, California, legendary musician Joe Walsh explained the process he used while writing his iconic song | Continue reading


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Why It’s Okay to Hold a Trusted Cat Like a Baby

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


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Whippet, Whippet Good

David Klass came across this hilarious tribute to "Whip It" by Devo. I don't know who shot this photo or were these wonderful works of art are located, | Continue reading


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An Incredibly Massive Chain Explosion Captured in 200,000 Frames Per Second Slow Motion Footage

In a volatile episode of of The Slow Mo Guys, hosts Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy set up and detonated a series of explosives around the School Of Mines in | Continue reading


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Talented Cats Perform Amazing Acrobatic Feats With Their Humans on ‘America’s Got Talent’

While appearing on the "Judge Cuts" segment | Continue reading


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Pastry Chef Creates a Gourmet Version of the Iconic Oreo Cookie That Stays True to Its Original Charm

In her ongoing quest to create gourmet versions of popular foods, Senior Food Editor and pastry chef Claire Saffitz of the Bon Apétit series Gourmet | Continue reading


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A Digitally Rendered Hovering Giant Reaper Holds on to the Golden Gate Bridge In a Matching Red Robe

Creeping from r/Cinema4D Canadian artist Justin LeDuc created a digital rendering of agiant Grim Reaper that hovered over the Golden Gate Bridge in San | Continue reading


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Toto Performs a Live Cover of the Weezer’s ‘Hash Pipe’ Six Weeks After Weezer Covered Toto’s ‘Africa’

While performing live in Vancouver, the band Toto played a really great cover of the Weezer song "Hash Pipe". This comes just six weeks after Weezer | Continue reading


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How Prolific Session Musician Carol Kay Created Some of Music’s Most Iconic Guitar and Bass Lines

Music writer Polyphonic, who creates incredibly informative video essays introduced a lot of people (myself included) Carol Kaye. Kaye was a rare female | Continue reading


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