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In response to a viewer’s query, musician Davide Biale, better known as Davie504 hilariously used a red hot chili pepper to play an impressive medley of Flea‘s superb bass lines from a variety of Red Hot Chili Peppers songs.
NEW VIDEO! Playing Red Hot Chili Peppers using an actual red hot chili pepper…. :) @ChiliPeppers https://t.co/F8Lo7lHsy8
— Davie504 (@Davie504bass) May 21, 2017
On a superhero episode of Man at Arms: Reforged, the talented team of blacksmiths and craftsmen at Baltimore Knife and Sword built a real-life version of Wonder Woman‘s indestructible shield from the live action films. They test out the magical shield by shooting it with arrows and throwing apples at it.
In the premiere episode of the online Vanity Fair series “Nick Offerman’s Common Sense“, the now bald-faced actor and woodworker offered forthright social commentary and helpful advice about putting the “united” back into the United States .
Many people are saying that we are a divided nation. I would counter that’s partly because we spend far too little time showing each other basic affection. If no one shows you love, you begin to feel unloved so today I exhort you to say hello to a stranger, offer a handshake to someone who’s done something worthy of a handshake, perhaps even give somebody an unexpected hug, assuming of course that this is okay with that somebody.
In the second episode of the series, Offerman spoke eloquently about discerning truth from lies and cited a number of famous examples to drive his excellent point home.
Think about the legendary whoppers that we still recount from days of yore the Trojan horse, the book of Genesis every word ever spoken by Iago, Hitler and Tartuffe the claim that a giant Bunny hides candy in your house one Sunday a year. Think too of more recent indiscretions, such as ‘I am NOT a crook’, ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman’ or ‘There are definitely some weapons of mass destruction over there’.
In a nature rich episode of Binging With Babish, host Andrew Rea demonstrated how to make Carol Peletier‘s (Melissa McBride) beet and acorn cookies from The Walking Dead, with foraging help from Ashwin Ramdas of Ashwin Enjoys Nature.
When you think of The Walking Dead, the word ‘appetizing’ certainly doesn’t come to mind. It’s no surprise then that Carol Peletier’s foraged cookies are earthy, doughy, ugly desserts of necessity. Hobbled by the 3-punch-combo of beets, acorns, and water chestnuts, follow along as we try and fail to make a concoction worth baking.
Father and son team Dan and Lincoln Markham of What’s Inside and Stephen Headrick use an axe to chop a fidget stick in half and find out exactly what is inside.
A television anchor for the Russian news channel Mir24 got a big surprise when a big black dog unexpectedly crawled out from under the desk while she was giving an on-air report. While the stunned newscaster seemed not to know what to do with the canine interloper, she gave him an awkward pat on the head while exclaiming to her audience that she is “actually a cat person!” who “loves cats.”
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Real Life Lore took a look at the current population density and posited what might happen if all of the dead throughout the history of humanity returned to normal everyday life? In an attempt to find an answer, the narrator verbally pondered what these people might look like, where they could live and whether or not the earth could sustain so much humanity.
What would happen if every single human from the entire history of our species suddenly came back to life today? How many people would there be, what would they look like as a group and how would it affect society? It’s an absurd question, but it’s still an interesting one to try and answer!
In an atmospheric episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill explain how certain words in the English language originated from terms used to describe different kinds of weather.
Lavish is a word to describe an extravagant outpouring of things. It comes from an Old French word, lavasse, related to the word for to wash, that referred to a downpour of rain. Nuance is a French word that traces back to the word for cloud and for the subtle differences of shading and color in clouds. Now it refers to subtle differences of shading in other qualities.
