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How Ian McKellen Uses His Eyes to Convey Emotion
Video essayist and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter takes a deep look at the way legendary actor Ian McKellen employs his bright baby…
Dogfish Head SuperEIGHT, A Super Gose Beer With the Perfect pH Level to Develop Kodak Super 8 Film
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery partnered up with Kodak to develop SuperEight, a puckery super Gose that has the perfect pH level to, in combination with…
Google Creates Its First Interactive AI Powered Google Doodle in Celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach
Google has created its very first artificially intelligent powered Google Doodle in celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach‘s birthday on this day in 1685. This wonderfully…
How Gregor Clegane aka ‘The Mountain’ Embodies All That Is Brutally Violent in ‘Game of Thrones’
With the final season of Game of Thrones swiftly approaching, Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of The Take take the opportunity to inscribe another chapter…
A Curious Cat Figures Out How to Play With the Swinging Spheres of a Newton’s Cradle
An adorable rescued tabby cat named Pickle began playing with the Newton’s Cradle that was sitting on his human’s desk. The curious kitty grabbed the…
MetaFly, A Durable, Flexible Flying Robot That Mimics the Movements of a Delicate Insect for Accurate Flight
Inventor Edwin Van Ruymbeke of Marseille, France, who created the furtive Bionic Bird drone, has crafted another biomimetic flying robot called the MetaFly. This highly…
How a Variety of Musical Oddities Make The Beatles’ ‘I’m Looking Through You’ a Very Messy Song
In a rather forthright video essay, the host of You Can’t Unhear This addresses the mysterious goings on that make very messy work of The…
A Robotic Arm That Picks Up Unfamiliar Objects With Great Precision and Places Them Where They Belong
Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have built a highly intelligent robotic arm that is able to gently pick up…
A Hot and Thirsty Koala Seeks Cool Refuge in the Air Conditioned Environment of a Winemaker’s Car
After checking to his family’s vineyard in South Australia, vintner Tim Withrow of Withrow Wines returned to his car and found that a hot and…
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The Kids of Hawkins Start to Grow Up During the Summer of 1985 in ‘Stranger Things’ Season Three
The third season of the wildly popular series Stranger Things takes place in the summer of 1985, where the kids of Hawkins, Indiana begin to…