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A Vibrant Look at ‘Off to the Vet’, The Very First Episode of Simon’s Cat in Color
In 2014, we wrote about Simon Toland and his fundraising to make an 12-minute color animation entitled “Off to the Vet“, which comically tells the…
MIT Engineers Create Robots That Can Correctly Sort Objects by Reading Human Minds
Engineers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT have developed robots that can correctly sort objects by reading human minds using…
A Tiny 3D Printed House That Costs $10,000 and Can Be Built in Just One Day
San Francisco startup Apis Cor has developed a system to create a tiny 3D printed house that costs around $10,000 and can be built in…
A Vociferous Green Parrot Performs a Near-Perfect Imitation of the Sound of a Crying Baby
A rather vociferous green parrot performed a near-perfect, accurate imitation of a crying baby while being coaxed by a cooing human who found the entire…
Cookie Monster Guides Curious and Hungry Children Through 100 Years of Cookie History
Cookie Monster guides a pair of curious and hungry children through 100 years of cookie history by sampling cookies from each decade in a video…
BrewDog to Open DogHouse in Columbus, Ohio, The World’s First Crowdfunded Craft Beer Hotel
Scottish craft brewers BrewDog is currently raising funds through Indiegogo to build the DogHouse, the world’s first combination brewery and hotel in Columbus, Ohio. While…
How to Cook the Chef’s Special Pollo a la Plancha From 2017 Best Picture Oscar Winner Moonlight
Binging With Babish host Andrew Rea demonstrates how to transform a few simple ingredients into the “Chef’s Special” pollo a la plancha from the 2017…
John Oliver Travels to Dharamsala, India to Speak With a Rather Jovial Dalai Lama
In an absolutely wonderful episode of Last Week Tonight , host John Oliver traveled all the way to Dharamsala, India to speak with Tenzin Gyatso,…
How to Make a Baby Groot Puppet for Your Shoulder
After watching the first sneak peek trailer the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Make: senior editor Caleb Kraft set out to build his very…
A Creepy Human Mannequin Head Mercilessly Cut in Half by a Powerful 60,000 PSI Water Jet
The WaterJet Channel mercilessly severs a creepy human mannequin head with their powerful 60,000 PSI water jet.