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Clever Urinals Made From Recycled Beer Kegs
A post shared by Scott Beale (@scottbeale) on Jun 26, 2018 at 10:12am PDT While visiting South Florida, Scott and I had the opportunity to…
A Clever Police Dog Demonstrates How to Properly Perform CPR on a Fellow Human Officer in Madrid
During a demonstration in Madrid, a rescued police dog named Poncho demonstrated for the crowd how to properly perform CPR on a fellow human officer…
Arizona Man Sits in Car With a Thermometer to Measure How Incredibly Hot It Gets Inside
In 2013, Nick Lane of Phoenix, Arizona sat in his black 2007 Kia Rio with a thermometer in hand to measure how incredibly warm that…
An English Bulldog With an Oversized Underbite and Giant Tongue Is Named World’s Ugliest Dog of 2018
A post shared by Pawscout (@pawscout) on Jun 25, 2018 at 2:00pm PDT An absolutely adorable English Bulldog named Zsa Zsa, whose oversized underbite and…
Stop-Motion Animator Teleports Across the USA While Trying to Pose for the Perfect Picture
Portland, Oregon stop-motion animator Kevin Parry of LAIKA (The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings) made an adventurous trip across he USA and had plenty…
A Fascinating Video Essay Exploring How the Coen Brothers Use Vehicles and Roads to Tell a Story
“Waltz on the Road” is a fascinating video essay, created by video editor Rick Perales, that explores the Coen brothers use vehicles and roads in…
A T-Rex or Dragon Foot Garbage Can
Theme prop artist Richard Riley of Regal Robot designed a ferocious garbage can that looks like a T-Rex or dragon foot. It is available to…
Japanese Dragon That Drone Can Autonomously Slither Through Small Openings Like a Flying Snake
The DRAGON, which stands for a “Dual-Rotor Embedded Multilink Robot with the Ability of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Aerial Transformation,” is an awesome drone designed to look like…
How Carrie Bradshaw’s Flawed Anti-Hero Charm Spoke to a Generation of Independent Women
Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of Screenprism took a look the revolutionary series Sex and the City, which premiered in 1998 – 20 years ago.…
Peter Capaldi of Doctor Who Offers a Rather Surreal Tour Inside the History of Surrealism
In 2014, the then newly-cast Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi appeared on an episode of “Unlock Art”, a collaborative online project between Tate and Le…