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Natalie Portman Travels to a Stranger Land Filled With Deadly Monsters in New ‘Annihilation’ Trailer
Paramount Pictures has released a new trailer for Annihilation, an upcoming sci-fi action horror film directed by Alex Garland based on the book of the…
An Incredibly Touching Comic About Looking Ahead in Time Seven Years After Being Treated for Cancer
In November 2010, Megan, then fiancée (now wife) of Randall Munroe, the illustrator behind the brilliant webcomic xkcd, received the devastating diagnosis of stage III…
Scrumptious Looking, Highly Stylized Glazed Ceramic Pop Art Donuts That Look Incredibly Real
A post shared by Jae Yong Kim (@jae_yong_kim_nyc) on Jul 29, 2017 at 6:05am PDT Sculptor Jae Yong Kim has created a whimsical line of…
Hospital Stretchers From World War II Battlefields Recycled and Used as Yard Railings Around London
An interesting BBC report on the hidden history of London reveals how hospital stretchers that were once used on the battlefields of World War II…
Amazing Self-Taught Teen Contortionist and Hand Balancer Shoots a Flaming Arrow Using Her Feet
Kuma Films captured incredible footage of Sofie Dossi, a teenage contortionist and hand balancer who made it to the finals of America’s Got Talent, putting…
Simon’s Cat Offers an Amusing Animated Guide to Understanding the Quirky Behaviors of Pet Humans
The very mischievous, ever-hungry and rather cunning Simon’s Cat hilariously put together a helpful animated guide to understanding the odd behaviors of a pet human.…
SelfieBot, A Raspberry Pi Powered Instant Camera With a Fun Personality
Designers Sophy Wong and Kim Pimmel joined forces to create SelfieBot, a Raspberry Pi powered instant camera that comes equipped with a cute face and…
Google Takes a Look Back at the Top Search Trends in 2017 From Around the World
Google has released “Year In Search 2017,” their annual recap of the top search trends from around the world. We previously wrote about their annual…
Thanks for the Stars, A Befitting Doctor Puppet Farewell to Peter Capaldi and the 12th Doctor Who
“Thanks for the Stars” is a really lovely and befitting farewell by Alisa Stern‘s wonderful stop-motion puppet series “Doctor Puppet” (previously) to Peter Capaldi, the…
An Animated Short About a Group of Freezing Logs Who Use Their Own Bodies for Fire Fuel
TIMBER is an animated short film, created by Nils Hedinger, about a group of freezing logs who realize that their own bodies are the only…