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Creative Ideas on How to Shoot Incredible High-Speed Photos Using a Smartphone
COOPH (Cooperative of Photography) provides some creative ideas on how to shoot incredible high-speed photos using a smartphone, including the use of high shutter speeds…
A Preview of the Stunning Artwork Featured in Volume 48 of Hi-Fructose Magazine
A post shared by Hi-Fructose Magazine (@hifructosemag) on Jun 11, 2018 at 12:27pm PDT Volume 48 of Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine has been…
Talented Sitar Player Performs Beautiful Cover Versions of Popular and Classic Rock Songs
Ronobir Lahiri is a talented musician in Los Angeles who performs beautiful covers of both popular and classic rock songs on his sitar. Included in…
How an Octopus Breathes
In a short but fascinating video from the Monterey Aquarium, aquarist Candace Reid-Rose explained by which mechanism octopuses are able to breathe. As if on…
Stanley Kubrick Explains the Ending of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ in a Lost 1980 Interview
In 1980 Japanese television host Jun’ichi Yaoi was making a documentary about the paranormal, which included the sublime Stanley Kubrick film The Shining, when he…
Quick Thinking JetBlue Flight Attendants Revive a Hypoxic Dog in Distress With an Oxygen Mask
While on a JetBlue flight to their Massachusetts home from Florida, Michele Burt noticed that her three year old French bulldog Darcy was having trouble…
An Amazing Live Stream of Brown Bears Hunting for Salmon in Alaska’s Katmai National Park
The Explore Network has set up an amazing live stream that shows hungry brown bears hunting for salmon as they swim upstream at Brooks Falls…
Three Giant Tesla Coils Play a Star Wars Medley
STEM integrated student club HawkWorks featured Three DRSSTCs (Dual Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) playing a Star Wars medley at last month’s Maker Faire Kansas…
The Creative Cartoon Voices of Tara Strong
Tara Strong, the incredibly talented voice actor who has vocally starred in such classic television cartoons as Rugrats, The Powerpuff Girls, The Adventures of Rocky…
Stubborn Dog Hilariously Refuses to Leave a Rear Facing Infant Car Seat He Erroneously Thinks Is His
A stubborn boxer decided that he preferred to ride in the rear facing infant car seat, refusing to leave when asked.