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Why Animators First Study the Mechanics of Walking Before Illustrating a Character’s Identifying Gait
Filmmaker Andy M. Saladino of the Royal Ocean Film Society takes a look at how illustrators animate unusual movement by first understanding the mechanics of…
Stunning Drone Footage of the Picturesque Landscape Within the Canyons of Moab, Utah
Award-winning FPV (first person view) drone filmmaker Airblastr has captured absolutely stunning drone footage of the picturesque landscape within the canyons of the Moab, Utah.…
How Technology Helps Paleontologists to Accurately Fill in Missing Bones When Reconstructing Dinosaurs
In a fascinating essay for Vox, host Kimberly Mas explains the history of dinosaur reconstruction, the different processes that sometimes resulted in rather big mistakes…
TossingBot, A Robotic Arm That Can Teach Itself to Grasp, Toss and Catch Random Items
Andy Zheng and a team of Princeton University engineers, in partnership with Google Brain Robotics have created the TossingBot, a pair of robotic arms that…
A Clever Map That Phonetically Spells Out the Names of European Capital Cities for Easy Pronunciation
Czech linguist, data scientist, graphic designer, and musician Jakub Marian has created an amusingly informative map of Europe that phonetically spells out the name of…
Adorable Toddler Cleverly Explains Dinosaur Extinction
An adorable three year old in a colorful dinosaur shirt quite knowledgeably explained to his mom the reason why these prehistoric creatures went extinct. According…
Sound Designer Ben Burtt Deconstructs the Audio Effects Used in ‘Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope’
A fascinating video from Indepth Sound Design features legendary Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt deconstructing many of the classic audio effects that he created…
The Book of Weirdo, A Hardcover Retrospective of the Alternative Comics Scene During the 1980s and 1990s
Last Gasp has published The Book of Weirdo, an almost 300 page hardcover retrospective by Jon B. Cooke about the alternative comics scene in the…
Elton John Walks Through a New Song That He and Bernie Taupin Wrote in 1970 Called ‘Tiny Dancer’
In 1970, the great Elton John sat behind his piano and explained the structure of a new song he was working on with his musical…
Surprising Similarities Between Depression and Anxiety
SciShow Psych host Brit Garner explains the surprising similarities between depression and anxiety despite the fact that they feel vastly different from each other. Garner…