In a rather astute video essay, a Vox News reporter examines and somewhat debunks the common practice of teaching children that they only have five senses as defined by Aristotle, when there are a number of other senses that help humans process equilibrioception (balance), mechanoreception (vibration), thermoception (temperature) and proprioception (body movement), amongst many, many…
A Silly Dog Refuses to Ride the Escalator Unless His Human Picks Him Up and Carries Him
A post shared by Antônio (@antoniothegolden) on May 11, 2017 at 9:41am PDT A wonderfully funny and normally brave dog named Antonio refused to go up the escalator at the Shopping Patio Higienopolis in São Paulo, Brazil unless his human picked him up and carried him like when he was a puppy. Per his accommodating…
80s.NYC, An Online Collection of Street View Photos Taken in All Five Boroughs During the 1980s
Programmer Brandon Liu and researcher Jeremy Lechtzin have created 80s.NYC, a really wonderful online collection of photos that show what all five boroughs of New York City looked like during the 1980s. The photos were taken as part of a bureaucratic process to ensure taxes were assessed properly. Liu and Letctzin organized these photos into…
A Long Legged Bird of Prey Attacks a Realistic Toy Snake While Doing a Graceful Dance
A beautifully long legged secretary bird eagerly pursued a wriggling toy snake that was being pulled by an unseen human in shadow. In doing so, the bird appeared to be performing a rather graceful dance. It appears these birds are really fond of kicking snakes, even if they are fake.
flow/er, A Gorgeous Short Film of Animated Flowers Exploding Into Fiercely Blooming Life
Filmmakers Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir have created “flow/er“, a gorgeous short film that features beads of beautiful colors collecting and fiercely exploding into flowers of different shapes and sizes that dance with and around one another amidst ambient chaos. In nature, it is often the simplest rules that lead to forming the most complex,…
Scottish Man Compares Costly Bottled Water to Tap Water In a Hilariously Subtitled Comedy Sketch
In a very funny clip from “Limmy’s Show“, Scottish comic Brian Limond poked fun at the water industry, starting first at a grocery store pricing each bottle out before inviting the audience to come with him to drink out of water from the tap. His flatmates had seemingly never seen such a thing. Brooks Travers…
A Distinguished Cat Dressed in Striped Pajamas Politely Rings a Bell to Get His Breakfast Served
A rather distinguished little cat named Pecan who was comfortably dressed in a pair of striped pajamas repeatedly rang a bell for his breakfast to be fed to him, one morsel at a time. Pecan in his PJs.. in bed… ringing the bell for some breakfast! …breakfast in bed! life doesn’t get much better than…
Puddles Pity Party Performs a Unique Glam Rock Cover of the Nine Inch Nails Song ‘Hurt’
Never one to shy away from doing things differently, the talented Puddles Pity Party performed a cover of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt” with a bit of a 1970s glam rock flavor to it. Using his iPad, he slowed the song down just a touch, added in some background vocals and looked straight at…
