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Stranger Things Music Composers Share How They Scored the Scenes For Both Seasons of the Show
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, bandmates in Survive and the composers of the Stranger Things soundtrack, sat down with Vanity Fair to share how a…
Cutting Open FIFA World Cup Soccer Balls From 1930, 1970 and 2018 to See What’s Inside
Father and son team, Dan and Lincoln Markham of the What’s Inside? channel, used a knife to cut open the official FIFA World Cup game…
The Incredible Harmonic Complexity Found Within Each Part of the Iconic Eagles Song ‘Hotel California’
Doodling music theorist and musician 12tone, analyzed the iconic Eagles song "Hotel California".
Why Blood Comes in So Many Colors Within Different Species of the Animal Kingdom
In a sanguine episode of Anna’s Science Magic Show Hooray!, host Anna Rothschild (previously) of both Washington Post Science and Gross Science fame, used paint-dipped…
John Legend Tests Out Popular Ways to Open a Bottle of Wine
John Legend teamed up with Tastemade and LVE Wines to test out popular wine hacks for when you have a bottle of tasty wine, but…
Little Girl in the British West Midlands Finds a Kindred Spirit in a 600 Pound Gloucestershire Pig
A little girl named Alice who lives in Walsall, West Midlands has found a kindred spirit in a 43 stone (602 pound) Gloucestershire pig named…
Taste Testing a Burger in a Can
Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” conducted a taste test of a hamburger in a can with mixed, soggy results.
A Fascinating Startup Dedicated to the Breeding, Care and Study of Various Cephalopod Species
SciFri paid a visit to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where manager Bret Grasse shared the mission of this unusual, but…
Tortoise Escapes the Brutal Arizona Heat With a Thorough Head Soak in an Automatic Lawn Sprinkler
A very clever tortoise named Tortie, who lives in Chandler, Arizona with his photographer human Cassell Clark Archinuk momentarily escaped the brutal heat of an…
Loving Father Runs on Stage to Dance With His Ballerina Daughter Suffering From Stage Fright
Bermuda lawyer and father of three, Marc Daniels, saved the day at an In Motion School of Dance ballerina recital when his two-year-old daughter Bella…