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Man With Bilaterally Amputated Arms Shows How He Gets His Morning Coffee From a Drive-Thru
A wonderfully encouraging man named Billy P., whose arms were bilaterally amputated, demonstrates how he gets his morning coffee from the drive-through window near his…
I Hate Being a Box
“I Hate Being a Box” by Alvin Juano on The Square Comics via Geeks Are Sexy
A Tiny Paralyzed Rescued Orange Tabby Kitten Rolls Around the Vet’s Office on a Pair of Homemade Wheels
A compassionate human brought a tiny orange tabby kitten to Massapequa Pet Vet after finding him on the streets, abandoned by his mother and unable…
ROV Hercules Captures First Live Sighting of an Asperoteuthis Mangoldae Squid in the Remote Pacific
While out near the Jarvis Seamount in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, the ROV Hercules on the 2019 Kingman Reef Expedition captured the…
Aquanaut, An Autonomous Electric Submarine That Can Transform Itself Into a Wireless Underwater Robot
Texas robotics company Houston Mechatronics has created the Aquanaut, an amazing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV or submarine) that literally transforms itself into a humanoid-style robot.…
A Pair of Naughty French Bulldogs Accidentally Turn Themselves Green While Raiding an Open Cupboard
While their human Yada Ornsomjit was sleeping, a pair of curious French bulldogs in Lamphun, northern Thailand, raided an open cupboard that contained, amongst other…
How The Who’s Pete Townshend Channeled His Newly Sober Disdain for Rock Star Life With ‘Eminence Front’
Music vlogger Noah LeFevre of Polyphonic takes a look at “Eminence Front”, an often overlooked song from The Who‘s late-career album It’s Hard, specifically noting…
How Nirvana’s ‘Polly’ Takes Listeners Inside a Rapist’s Mind In Order to Show the Depravity of Sexual Assault
In an incredibly elucidating essay, vlogger Evan Puschak, aka The Nerdwriter, examines the 1991 Nirvana song “Polly” from their breakout album Nevermind. The song, despite…
Illustrator Cleverly Reimagines the ‘Great Wave Off Kanagawa’ by Hokusai With Cats Wearing Glasses
Illustrator Roberto Maki has quite cleverly reimagined the famous woodblock print “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” by ukiyo-e artist Hokusai with bespectacled cats forming the…
‘Stranger Things’ Creators Ross and Matt Duffer Talk About the Many 1980s Films Referenced in the Series
In an amusingly informative interview with Wired, twin brothers Ross Duffer and Matt Duffer talk at wonderful length about the incredible number of films from…