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‘Frozen Fever’, A New Short Film Featuring Anna & Elsa of Disney’s ‘Frozen’ to Play Prior to ‘Cinderella’ Screenings
Disney has announced that a new short film featuring the characters from the animated hit Frozen is scheduled to play in theaters prior to screenings…
Exhausted Mom Documents the Adorable Inconvenience of Co-Sleeping With a Baby
Exhausted mom Esther Anderson brings her infant daughter Ellia to bed with her each morning after a feeding, but neither of the two of them…
Knitter Makes a Giant Blanket With Rope-Thick Wool Yarn and PVC Pipe Knitting Needles
Imgur user and knitter Otterknot found three large bags of wool at a garage sale, which she turned into rope-thick yarn and then into a…
The Faux Museum, A Conceptual Art Museum in Portland, Oregon
image via The Faux Museum The Faux Museum in Portland, Oregon is what curator Tom Richards describes as “a cross between The Natural History Museum…
J.K. Rowling to Release New ‘Harry Potter’ Content Each Day for 12 Days Starting December 12, 2014
British novelist J.K. Rowling, best known for her globally popular Harry Potter books, will be releasing new content from the Harry Potter universe on Pottermore…
Ika Squid Plush by Inki Drop, An Adorable Cephalopod Toy
Inki Drop has released the tentacle-y adorable Ika Squid Plush, which is available now at Shana Logic (previously). This palm-sized buddy measures 4″ from the…
Kalamazoo Wings Hockey Player Ray Kaunisto Plays the ‘Super Troopers’ Cat Game During an Interview
Self-described proud Yooper and Kalamazoo Wings hockey player Ray Kaunisto dropped seven “meows” into a 40-second interview during intermission of a game in an homage…
‘My Mom Is an Airplane’, An Animated Short About a High-Flying Mother by Yulya Aronova
“My Mom Is an Airplane” is an animated short film by Russian artist Yulya Aronova. The film carries a charming, sincere tone and tells the…
New Analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, An Ancient Greek Analog Computer, Brings More Mystery Into Light
photo by Thanassis Stavrakis The Antikythera mechanism, recovered in 1901 from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, is an ancient analog computer that…
500,000-Year-Old Shell Engraving by Homo Erectus Is Oldest Known ‘Art’
image by Wim Lustenhouwer, VU University Amsterdam In the 1890s, Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist Eugène Dubois collected fossils in Trinil, Indonesia. Among his findings were…