Laughing Squid
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A Concerned Elephant Gently Guides a Stubbornly Playful Calf Away From the Playground To Eat
A concerned elephant named Dok Mai who lives at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand, very gently guided a reluctant calf away from…
Motion Sensitive Digital Display at a Stockholm Metro Station Sends a Hair Raising Cancer Message
In 2014, the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation created a powerful adaptation of an Apotek hjärtat Apolosophy interactive digital shampoo ad at the Odenplan metro station…
A Charming Adventure Time Cherry Pie
The amazing Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome is back and this time she demonstrates how to make a charming looking cherry pie based…
A Rescued Baby Southern White Rhino Is Prepared For a New Life as Part of a Herd in a Wild Reserve
In a bittersweet clip from the BBC Earth series Nature’s Miracle Orphans, a two day old southern white rhinoceros named Manji, who was severely injured…
Why Selfies Can Make a Person’s Nose Appear to Look Bigger Than It Actually Is
In an amphirhinal report for Vox, video producers Christophe Haubursin and Julia Belluz explain why one’s nose looks so much bigger in selfies than it…
Roboticist Dances With Two of His Groovy Robots at the World of Dance Competition in Paris
Roboticist Audrick Fausta (a.k.a. “Drikybot“) danced alongside two of his groovy robots while competing and qualifying at the World of Dance competition in Paris. A…
A Comprehensive Look Behind the Scenes of the Spike Jonze ‘Welcome Home’ Apple HomePod Ad
In early March 2018, we wrote about “Welcome Home” a brilliant ad for the Apple HomePod that was directed Spike Jonze and featured singer, dancer…
How Twizzlers Are Made
On a season one episode of the Cooking Channel‘s series, Unwrapped, Marc Summers narrates as plant manager Tony Tassone gives us a look at how…
Miss Piggy Sings Along to ‘Diamonds’ by Rihanna
Miss Piggy sings along to Rihanna‘s song “Diamonds” in a marvelous Muppets mashup created by Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. “Mylo the Cat“). Here is the original…
A Group of NASA Astronauts Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions About Space
A group of NASA astronauts (Nicole Stott, Jeffrey Hoffman, Chris Hadfield, Jerry Linenger, Leland Melvin, Mae C. Jemison, and Mike Massimino) sat down with Wired…