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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…
An Incredible Brass Band Cover of the Iconic Rage Against the Machine Anthem ‘Killing In the Name’
Brass Against performed incredible brass band covers of iconic Rage Against the Machine songs, including "Killing In the Name".