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A Fascinating In-Depth Look at the Amazing Sixty Year Career of Actor James Hong
Brandon Hardesty takes a truly in-depth look at the incredible and varied career of the incredible actor James Hong.
A Unicorn Drawn With MIDI Notes That Also Plays a Beautiful Melody
Musician Andrew Huang drew a unicorn with MIDI notes and then retooled his drawing so that it also played a beautiful melody. Huang said he…
A Clever Puppy Climbs Onto the Back of a Baby Stroller When She Grows Tired of Walking
A puppy decided she had enough of walking and climbed into the storage compartment of the baby stroller that her human was pushing.
The Cast of Sesame Street Answers the Most Searched Questions About the Show
Cookie Monster, Elmo, Big Bird and other Sesame Street cast members answer the most searched questions about the show in a video for Wired. Elmo,…
A Brilliant Animated First-Hand Telling of the Day a Giant Octopus Took Down the Staten Island Ferry
While studying abroad at the University of Salford, filmmaker Verena Straub created an absolutely brilliant animation that tells a first-hand story about the horrific Staten…
A Teeny-Tiny Tired Puppy Emits the Most Adorable Noises While Fast Asleep on His Back
A teeny-tiny tired two-week-old Labrador Retriever puppy barked, yelped and emitted the most adorable noises, that only a puppy can make while fast asleep on…
Astronomers Discover Seven Potentially Habitable Earth-Size Exoplanets Around a Nearby Dwarf Star
NASA has announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable Earth-size exoplanets around the ultra-cool red dwarf TRAPPIST-1, the most ever discovered around a single star.…
Service Pairing Screenwriters With Real Scientists for Better Science Representation in Film and TV
Vox profiles the Science and Entertainment Exchange, a service that pairs Hollywood screenwriters with real scientists and engineers to help them better and more accurately…
A Look at How Industrial Light & Magic Digitally Recreated Grand Moff Tarkin for Rogue One
Industrial Light & Magic has released a fascinating behind the scenes look at how they digitally recreated the ruthless Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin…
John Cleese Hilariously Insults Taylor Swift’s Lovely Scottish Fold Cat on the Graham Norton Show
John Cleese, Taylor Swift and cricket player Kevin Pietersen got on to the subject of cats while appearing on The Graham Norton Show in 2014.…