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A Five Minute Tirade of Profane Insults Uttered by The Hound During All Eight Seasons of ‘Game of Thrones’
In memory of the recently concluded series Game of Thrones, Supercuts Delight (previously) has edited together five wonderfully profane minutes of the late, ultimately great…
A Documentary Exploring the Culmination of Events That Made Woodstock So Generationally Defining
PBS American Experience takes an authentic look at the infamous Woodstock Music Festival in a historical documentary of the same name. The concert was held…
Trying to Swim in a 15 Ton JELL-O Swimming Pool
In 2016, former NASA engineer Mark Rober and The Backyard Scientist filled up a backyard swimming pool with 25 million Orbeez water balls. On that…
Samsung AI Machine Learning Turns Mona Lisa and Other Famous Portraits Into Realistic Talking Heads
Researchers at the Samsung AI Center in Moscow have quite amazingly turned the Mona Lisa and other famous subjects of photos and art into realistic…
McHive, A Tiny Replica of a McDonald’s That Also Serves As a Fully Functioning Beehive
Several McDonald’s in Sweden have been putting beehives on their rooftops in order to safely house and replenish the worldwide dwindling bee population. In that…
Dedicated Father Captures 13 Years of His Daughter’s First Day of School From Kindergarten to Senior Year
In 2017, dedicated dad Kevin Scruggs shared a wonderful compilation of interviews he conducted with daughter Mackenzie on the first day of school from first…
A Bipedal Robot That Makes Front Door Deliveries After Being Transported to the Curb by a Self-Driving Vehicle
In February 2019, Agility Robotics announced the development of Digit, an anthropomorphic version of their bipedal robot Cassie. Digit sports an upper torso, arms, and…
A Raft of Sea Otters Perform an Unintentionally Synchronized Swimming Routine Across an Inlet
An absolutely adorable raft of Southern sea otters at the Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing, California, happily performed an unintentional synchronized swimming routine from one…
Captain Jean-Luc Picard Explains Why He Left Starfleet Over Some Wine in the CBS All Access Series ‘Picard’
A teaser for the upcoming CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard shows a retired Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation walking…
Playdate, A Retro Yellow Crank Controlled Handheld Gaming System With a Black and White Screen
Panic, the company behind Transmit, Coda and the adventure game Firewatch, teamed-up with Teenage Engineering to create Playdate, their unique version of a handheld gaming…