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A One-Lane Bridge in Hindon, New Zealand That Is Shared by Cars and Trains Without Any Traffic Lights
While exploring the world’s steepest street in Dunedin, New Zealand, the adventuring Tom Scott discovered another transportation anomaly nearby. In the town of Hindon, there…
Guilhem Desq Plays a Brilliantly Soulful Instrumental on an Electrified Hurdy-Gurdy
Guilhem Desq, a very talented a sonneur de vielle, performed a gorgeous, brilliantly soulful instrumental upon a hurdy-gurdy. This multifaceted instrument is part accordion, part…
Tour of a Magnificent Five Story Church Organ With 8,000 Pipes of Vastly Different Sizes and Weights
Musician Rob Scallon visited with John Sherer, the organist and musical director of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. Sherer performed several pieces upon magnificent pipe…
Classic Songs From 1970s and 1980s Recreated With Era Appropriate Synthesizers, Instruments and Effects
Dutch musician Clemens Wenners performs wonderful covers of classic songs, particularly those from the 1970s and 1980s. For each cover, Wenners does all the vocals…
Time Travel Explained in a Very 1980s Style Parody
In an amusing parody by Squirrel Monkey (previously), a female attendant (Kinna McInroe) welcomes passengers aboard a flight in a super-secret secret time travel mission…
Runway Models Stroll Down the Catwalk Inside Inflated Balloons That They Gracefully Deflate Into Clothing
Designer Fredrik Tjærandsen, a L’Oreal Professional Young Talent Award Winner and a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London, has…
Analyzing the Physics Behind the Catastrophic 1986 Explosion of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Power Plant
With the soaring popularity of the HBO series Chernobyl, Scottish scientist and vlogger Scott Manley explains the science of an RBMK nuclear reactor, the physical…
Intelligent Australian Shepherd Plays a Respectable Game of Jenga With Her Beloved Human
The very intelligent Australian shepherd named Secret, who previously took herself sledding, played a very respectable round of Jenga with her human Mary. When it…
Children’s Imaginative Solutions to Perceived Problems Are Brought to Life by Makers Around the World
The British non-profit organization Little Inventors works with children by encouraging them to use their uninhibited imaginations address issues they would like to solve. No…
A Cheeky Seagull Steals a Woman’s Lobster Roll From Her Hand as She Was Holding It Out for a Photo
This is why we can’t have nice things. I was trying to take a picture of the lobster roll I ordered in Maine and well,…