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A Feature Length Documentary on New Jersey’s Action Park, ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park’
screenshot via Class Action Park In 2013, we wrote about Seth Porges‘ (previously) excellent series for Mashable about the now defunct yet infamous and often…
Why Time Seems to Go by Faster as You Get Older
Neuroscientist David Eagleman offers a brilliant but slightly head scratching explanation for why time seems to go by much faster as you get older. It…
Four-Legged Robot With Actuated Wheels to Navigate Challenging Terrain With Hybrid Locomotion Abilities
An international team of researchers with Cerberus, which includes ETH Zurich, The Autonomous Robots Lab, The Sierra Nevada Corporation, The HiPer Lab at UC Berkeley…
A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming
In a clip from the PBS documentary, a sleeping octopus began changing colors as she seemingly dreamed as she lay upside down in the water.
Colorful Animal Sculptures Made From Plastic Trash
Environmental artist Artur Bordalo, aka Bordallo II, transforms every day trash and refuse into absolutely gorgeous, large scale, brilliantly colored animal sculptures. The artist travels…
Assertive Pink Doughnut Forces Its Way Into Unwilling Man’s Mouth in the Amusing Animation ‘Plaisir Sucré’
In the really amusing animated short “Plaisir Sucre” by MegaComputer Animation, a highly assertive pink frosted doughnut makes its way onto an office desk and…
An Animated History Explaining the Origins of Chess
In a tactical Ted Ed video essay written by Alex Gendler and animated by Remus Buznea and Kyra Kupetsky, narrator Adrian Dannatt explains the origins…
Retired Couple Creates Language From Shorthand and Mispronunciations From When Their Kids Were Little
In the documentary (SHn(y)o?of) by award-winning director Sam Davis (Period. End of Sentence., a retired couple named Bill and Tonya Martin spend their days making…
A Wonderful Compilation of People Dancing in Movies
CLS Videos, who previously compiled 300 scenes from movies that celebrated dancing, has followed up with a second compilation of numerous people joyously, ceremoniously, and…
Scenic Lesson in Logarithms Explained Bob Ross Style
Toby Hendy of Tibees, who makes educational videos on science and math, very creatively gave a scenic lesson in logarithms using a gentle, encouraging style…