Lithuanian photographer Andrius Burba, who captured a different side of cats, dogs, and horses by photographing them from underneath a glass table, has added a twist to this very clever series. Instead of the dramatic black backgrounds he previously used, Burba added a little color to the mix. As you might have noticed, the original…
How Gregor Clegane aka ‘The Mountain’ Embodies All That Is Brutally Violent in ‘Game of Thrones’
With the final season of Game of Thrones swiftly approaching, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of The Take take the opportunity to inscribe another chapter of their ongoing analysis regarding the flawed characters of the ongoing series. They take a look at Gregor Clegane aka “The Mountain” and his complete embodiment all that is brutally…
A Curious Cat Figures Out How to Play With the Swinging Spheres of a Newton’s Cradle
An adorable rescued tabby cat named Pickle began playing with the Newton’s Cradle that was sitting upon his human’s desk. The curious kitty grabbed the sphere that was closest to him and then let go. Pickle noticed how the momentum of the sphere shifted the entire structure, stopped it and then tried it again. He…
MetaFly, A Durable, Flexible Flying Robot That Mimics the Movements of a Delicate Insect for Accurate Flight
Inventor Edwin Van Ruymbeke of Marseille, France, who created the furtive Bionic Bird drone, has crafted another biomimetic flying robot called the MetaFly. This highly flexible and extremely durable drone looks and acts like a delicate insect for exacting flight. The MetaFly can be used both outdoors as well as indoors, is crash-proof, has its…
How a Variety of Musical Oddities Make The Beatles’ ‘I’m Looking Through You’ a Very Messy Song
In a rather forthright video essay, the host of You Can’t Unhear This addresses the mysterious goings on that make very messy work of The Beatles song, “I’m Looking Through You” from the 1965 album Rubber Soul. The narrator address mid-phrase edits, dropped beats and instruments, ghost vocals, stray guitar licks, confusing channel consistency and…
A Robotic Arm That Picks Up Unfamiliar Objects With Great Precision and Places Them Where They Belong
Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have built a highly intelligent robotic arm that is able to gently pick up objects that it has never seen before and with great precision, place them exactly where and how they belong. The team used 3-dimensional “keypoints” to visually represent the objects. The…
A Hot and Thirsty Koala Bear Seeks Cool Refuge in the Air Conditioned Environment of a Winemaker’s Car
After checking to his family’s vineyard in South Australia, vintner Tim Withrow of Withrow Wines returned to his car and found that a hot and thirsty koala bear had joined Withrow’s dog in enjoying the air conditioning that was left on during the errand. Withrow kindly offered the koala some water and then tried to…
The Kids of Hawkins Start to Grow Up During the Summer of 1985 in ‘Stranger Things’ Season Three
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The third season of the wildly popular series Stranger Things takes place in the summer of 1985, where the kids of Hawkins, Indiana begin to learn there’s more to life than playing games in Mikey’s basement and start to put away childish things. Yet when a new leader builds a new mall that attracts a…