NASA enlisted talented artists to create a series of wonderful posters commemorating the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. | Continue reading
While dog-sitting her best friend's dog, a woman named Marielle had no idea what the release word that gave him permission to eat. | Continue reading
Nick Mason announced the winning music videos for Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" 50th Anniversary animated video competition. | Continue reading
A guinea pig stretched out quietly on a blanket next to the keys of the piano, where her human plays classical music that lulls her to sleep. | Continue reading
I love languages! shared a video showing how old English regional dialects, such as Northumbrian, Mercian, and West Saxon were spoken. | Continue reading
A very startled cat named Timon gave his human a very fixed look of disbelief when he saw a bear in his yard for the very first time. | Continue reading
Parkour athlete Nico Fischer aka "Elevator-Man" skillfully scaled a narrow hallway, jumping back and forth between the walls like Spider-Man. | Continue reading
Film collective Total Refusal compiled the daily work of the NPCs in "Red Dead Redemption 2" were doing to earn a living. | Continue reading
Mattias Krantz 3D printed an incredible 100 guitar picks in one giant pick with a handle that looked cool but didn't work as well. | Continue reading
The Haneline Twins humorously performed a cover of the AC/DC song "Back in Black" using a saucepan hitting a helmeted head for percussion. | Continue reading
Willie Nelson and Kermit the Frog performed a wonderful duet of "Rainbow Connection" during a live show at a Luck Reunion in Luck, Texas. | Continue reading
New Mind took a look at the history of the zip tie, a ubiquitous modern invention with origins that go back to the late 19th century. | Continue reading
Dr. Joren Whitley, a caring chiropractor to both humans and animals alike, gave a much needed adjustment to a giraffe with neck pain. | Continue reading
The Paint Explainer provided an explanation of various types of computer viruses and the damage they cause. | Continue reading
A little parrot named Richard grabbed a spoon with his beak and eagerly stirred his human's afternoon coffee with great zeal. | Continue reading
Popular Science compiled an amusing 3D animation that compares individual Pokémon characters matched with animals of the same weight class. | Continue reading
Musician Andre Antunes added a heavy metal guitar soundtrack to a classic clip of Pastor TD Jakes repeatedly preaching the words "Wake Up". | Continue reading
Brickit is a clever app available that uses machine-learning to pick out and design new builds from piles of leftover LEGO bricks. | Continue reading
Shane Reimche of Eugene, Oregon narrowly escaped being impaled by a runaway circular saw blade that skidded towards him at full speed. | Continue reading
It’s History explores how Liberty Island, then known as Bedloe's Island, was a military site that housed Fort Wood during the War of 1812. | Continue reading
An astute African grey parrot in Vietnam, very cleverly sorted and stacked puzzle pieces onto pegs by their color and their shape. | Continue reading
Firebox is selling a set of oven mitts that look like the crust of freshly baked bread on the outside and a soft, hearty loaf on the inside. | Continue reading
Border collies Roy and Ty of Quack Pack USA herded a waddle of ducks straight through the space underneath a girl doing a backbend. | Continue reading
Ryan Cook captured his process of carving an elaborate toucan out of a single block of ice in a fascinating one-minute timelapse. | Continue reading
Home Suite Hotels started a wonderful program that gives adoptable senior dogs "jobs" as greeters at their hotels around South Africa. | Continue reading
Polyphonic takes a look at the music of the 1990s and 2000s, noting how the iconic guitar solo began its descent from popular music. | Continue reading
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The aptly named Speedbag Bard performs percussive covers of various types of songs with punches on a speed bag. | Continue reading
Moiya McTier, PhD of the PBS series "Fate & Fabled" explained the mythology behind the phrase "turtles all the way down". | Continue reading
Music producer veridiz created bouncy 8-bit synth cover of several seminal Pink Floyd albums, including "The Dark Side of the Moon". | Continue reading
A rescued baby squirrel enjoyed going to work with his human, custom jeweler Todd Alan who allowed him to inspect every piece of jewelry | Continue reading
A clip from "Spy in the Ocean", a robotic spy iguana by John Downer Productions dove down to the seafloor search for food with other iguanas. | Continue reading
A golden retriever amusingly tried to take a bite of a sandwich that a character on a TV show held under the table with an outstretched hand. | Continue reading
The Rockin’1000 performed a rousing cover of the Pink Floyd song "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" at a stadium in Cesena, Italy. | Continue reading
The Invisibility Shield Company has debuted the 2nd generation of their optical cloaking shield that allows people to hide in plain sight. | Continue reading
Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University developed a robot named Emo that anticipates smiles and mimics a human expressions. | Continue reading
Kurzgesagt put together an animation explaining how a devastating volcano in India caused the beginning of the end for dinosaurs. | Continue reading
In the short animated film "The Spider Within", a Miles Morales fights the shadowy monsters of panic that literally drive him up the wall. | Continue reading
Robert E Fuller captured gorgeous 4K footage of a winter starling murmuration swooping over the Ripon City Wetlands in Yorkshire, England. | Continue reading
A service dog in Taiyuan, China goes grocery shopping at a farmers market everyday with a little red basket in her mouth. | Continue reading
Park worker Dani Garland accidentally got swallowed by a convertible sofa bed while she was setting it up for her co-worker. | Continue reading
The Paint Explainer provided explanations for a comprehensive list of types of government types and their ideologies. | Continue reading
Cale Brown of Bird Antics performs intricate dance routines with virtual clones of himself in different, but coordinating clothing. | Continue reading
A golden retriever clumsily climbed up into a cat condo, wiggled through the doorway and then turned around to peer out at the room. | Continue reading
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology explained the differences between the wide array of birds in the Picidae family known as woodpeckers. | Continue reading
Learn Something New explained how Alcatraz went from a strategically placed military fortress to the isolated island prison of legend. | Continue reading
A very talented border collie named Simba gracefully parkoured across a row of metal bicycle racks, easily going from one to the next. | Continue reading
FridayNightLullaby performed all the songs of the iconic "Quadrophenia" and "Tommy" albums by The Who as a one-man band. | Continue reading