I think you should call people what they want to be called Mary Norris, known as the “Comma Queen” at the New Yorker, addressed the recent and wonderful American Dialect Society announcement that the singular “they” was their Word of the Year and talked about how to use the word as a singular noun. A…
A Incredible Supercomputer Model That Visualizes Carbon Dioxide Levels in the Earth’s Atmosphere
In 2014, climate scientist Bill Putnam who works in the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, presented an incredibly startling supercomputer model that visualized the increasing carbon dioxide levels present in the Earth’s atmosphere over the course of a year. He explained how the photosynthesis of trees and other plant…
H*nest Meditation, An App That Provides Guided Meditations Laced With a Bit of Satisfying Profanity
Posted by Jason Headley on Sunday, January 10, 2016 Writer and director Jason Headley, who made the hilarious video “F*ck That: An Honest Meditation“, has created an accompanying app that allows peace seekers to access their daily dose of profanity-laced meditation in a variety of lengths, up to 15 minutes. Mindfulness for the rest of us….
11-Year Old Girl From India Reclaims the Guinness World Record for Lowest Limbo Skating
In October 2015, an eleven year old girl from India named Shristi Sharma reclaimed the title of “Lowest limbo skating over 25 meters” by rolling under a course of 25 6.69 inch limbo bars. The event was sponsored by Lokmat Media Pvt Ltd and took place at the Centre Point School in Nagpur, India and…
An Easter Egg Hunt For Adults That Replaces the Eggs With Beer
Easter Beer Hunt!Posted by John Halcyon Styn on Monday, March 14, 2016 John Halcyon Styn, the founder of Hug Nation, has a really creative mom who knows how to keep her children engaged in the family’s annual Easter Egg hunt. Over the years she changed it up a bit but after the hard-boiled eggs, candy…
Clever Fashion Illustrator Creates Unique Dress Designs Using All Sorts of Yummy Food
A photo posted by EdgaR_ArtiS (@edgar_artis) on Jan 22, 2016 at 3:45am PST Armenian illustrator Edgar Artis has a wonderfully unique eye for fashion, cleverly creating unique dress designs from such yummy treats as chocolate, french fries, whipped cream, Swiss cheese and even some fruits including lemon and kiwi. Artis is also fond of other…
The Joyful Highway 101 Overpass Dancer Who Literally Performs With His Heart on His Sleeve
By way of a listener’s question, KQED News sought out the locally infamous dancer who performs with a big red heart on the 18th Street pedestrian overpass over Highway 101 in San Francisco where commuters are always stuck in traffic during rush hour. The dancer, whose name is JaVonne Hatfield, just really enjoys dancing and…
A Disconcerting Supercut That Pays Brilliant Tribute to the Distinctive Kubrick Stare Technique
Spanish filmmaker Jorge Luengo Ruiz, whose work we’ve previously posted, has created a massively, multi-frame supercut tribute to the “Kubrick Gaze“, a distinctive closeup technique employed by the director in which the character deliberately stared directly into the camera with intention, subtly pulling the audience in without completely breaking the fourth wall. Here's my NEW…