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Comparing the Sizes of Star Trek Starships
MetaBallStudios created an intriguing visualization comparing the sizes of important Star Trek starships.
An Unhelpful Robot Designed to Forcefully Deliver Bottles to Unsuspecting Babies
The Useless Duck Company has created an unhelpful robot designed to forcefully give babies their bottle. The bot uses an Arduino-powered rotating gripper arm to…
Lemurs Getting Very High Eating Toxic Millipedes
In a clip for the fourth episode of the BBC series Spy in the Wild, narrator David Tennant explains the odd reaction that wild lemurs…
Mesmerizing Slow Motion Video of 1,200° Molten Copper Being Poured
Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys pour mesmerizing red-hot 1,200° molten copper and film it at 1,000 fps. The metal splashes…
An Eye-Opening Map That Shows the Wide Range of Legal Drinking Ages Around the World
Statistician Dr. Nathan Yau of Flowing Data has created an eye-opening map that shows the different legal drinking ages in countries around the world using…
Gorgeous Deep Sea Footage of a Bright Pink Venus Flytrap Sea Anemone Standing Ready
On its noble mission to document images of previously unseen deep water sea creatures, the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) ship Okeanos captured absolutely…
A Few Things That Would Be Impossible on Earth But That Could Happen on Other Planets
Real Life Lore created a list of things that would be impossible on Earth, but that could happen on other planets. Several of the examples…
A Skittish Prairie Dog Falls Off a Pedestal When a Nearby Human Sneezes Loudly
A skittish prairie dog who was perched atop a pedestal was so startled by a human sneeze that the little creature fell to the ground.
Logan With Miami Vice Style Intro
The Woodcreek Faction imagines what Logan would be like with a Miami Vice style intro.
The Great Alfred Hitchcock Laughs About the British Sense of Humor in a Lost 1957 Animated Interview
In a amusing episode of the lost interview series Blank on Blank, the late great Alfred Hitchcock spoke with journalist Colin Edwards in 1957 about…