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Singers Pay Tribute to Harry Belafonte With a Chorus of ‘Day-O’ During the ‘We Are the World’ Rehearsal
During the 1985 recording of "We Are the World", the famous musicians sang "Banana Boat Song (Day O)" in honor of singer Harry Belafonte.
Beatrice, The Remarkable Story of an Italian Fencing Champion Whose Limbs Were Amputated at Age 12
The short documentary “Beatrice” tells the story of Beatrice Vio a talented Italian fencing champion, who started the sport at the age of five. When…
Simon’s Cat Offers Helpful Advice About New Year’s Resolutions Through a Series of Amusing Vignettes
With 2018 almost here, a very wise Simon’s Cat offers up some helpful advice regarding New Year’s resolutions for his beleaguered human through a series…
Roland MT-80S, A 1990s Boombox That Plays MIDI Music Stored on 3.5″ Floppy Disks
Mat Taylor of the interesting tech blog and YouTube channel, Techmoan, took a look the Roland MT-80S, a portable music player from the late 1990s…
A Marvelous Timelapse of an Artist Sculpting Gladiator Hulk From Thor: Ragnarok
Artist Steve Richter of Regal Robot posted a marvelous timelapse video of him sculpting a gladiator version of the Hulk From Thor: Ragnarok. We previously…
How a Moving Video Image Can Be Two and Three Dimensional at the Same Time
In a rather dizzying episode of “Things You Might Not Know“, host Tom Scott explains via a constantly rotating camera courtesy of Matt Gray, how…
A Functioning Rubik’s Cube Made Out of Ice
British puzzle maker Tony Fisher, who built the world’s largest and smallest Rubik’s Cube puzzle, is back with a new video where he shows off…
A Classic NES Controller Garage Door Opener
Eric Flavin and his team at Phantom F have created the Opendo, an amazing garage door opener that looks just like a classic Nintendo Entertainment…
A Corn Snake Relaxes Comfortably in a Hand Knitted Purple Sweater He Received for Christmas
A snake named Spaghetti relaxed comfortably on the couch wearing in a knitted purple tube sweater he received for Christmas.
How Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ Was Transformed From a Two Chord Piano Song to a Lush, Layered Hit
Video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter took a detailed look at the Fleetwood Mac song “Dreams” from the iconic album Rumors…