Rebecca Escamilla
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Dumplings and Shrimp Explosively Prepared and Cooked in Two Seconds
Dumpling are prepared and cooked in a scant two seconds by being blasted through ingredients and fire in an ad for Japanese mobile phone service…
‘The Katering Show’, A Gut-Bustingly Hilarious Parody Cooking Show
The Katering Show is a hilarious cooking show starring an Australian duo of Kates: Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. McLennan serves as a foodie chef…
AvoSeedo, A Handy Tool to Make Growing Avocado Trees at Home Easier
Growing avocado trees at home sounds like a tricky process, but a new product is in the works to make it a little easier. The…
Charles Darwin’s Children’s Doodles and Paintings on Original Handwritten ‘On the Origin of Species’ Pages
A watercolor on the back of a page of the original On the Origin of Species manuscript A vast collection of digitizations and transcriptions of…
‘The Story of Menstruation’, A 1946 Educational Animated Disney Film Distributed to Health Classes
“The Story of Menstruation” is an animated short film produced by Disney in 1946. It was made to be shown to girls in health classes…
First Official ‘Frozen Fever’ Trailer Offers a Look at the Popular Disney Characters Preparing For Anna’s Birthday
Disney has released a trailer for “Frozen Fever“–the highly anticipated short film featuring the gang from Frozen that tells the story of what happens when…
Warren G and Kenny G Perform ‘Regulate’
Similarly named rapper Warren G and saxophonist Kenny G the classic 1994 hip hop song “Regulate” on Jimmy Kimmel Live, with Kenny G’s smooth sax…
A Series of Beautifully Crystallized Books
To Kill A Mockingbird Artist Alexis Arnold uses a solution containing borax to “crystalize” books into twisted shapes and to render the text inside and…
CT Scan of Mummified Buddhist Monk Inside Statue Casts Doubts on the Monk’s Mummification Process
photo by M. Elsevier Stokmans A statue of a seated, meditating Buddha that houses the mummy of Chinese Buddhist Master Liuquan–who died around the year…
Colombian Artist Ladyzunga Cyborg Changes Her Name to ABCDEFG HIJKLMN OPQRST UVWXYZ
image via Las 2 Orillas A Colombian artist formerly known as Ladyzunga Cyborg successfully changed her name to ABCDEFG HIJKLMN OPQRST UVWXYZ after several rejections…