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A Surprisingly Gentle Polar Bear Affectionately Pets a Calmly Receptive Canadian Eskimo Dog
David de Meulles, a freestyle rider, a mechanic and sometime guide for Northstar Tours in Churchill, Manitoba, captured the amazing sight of a surprisingly gentle…

Here Is Today, A Site That Visually Represents the Scale of Time
Here Is Today is a site by White Vinyl Design that visually represents the scale of time. It starts by showing a single day, and…

A Handy Arsenal of Rarely Used Elegant Insults
In a timely episode of their incredibly informative whiteboard series for Mental Floss , linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill offer up a wonderfully…

How Cartographer Marie Tharp Helped Scientists Understand Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
An animated video from The Royal Institution explains how cartographer Marie Tharp helped scientists better understand continental drift and plate tectonics. The theories were not…

The Colossal Ape King Stands Tall as Monsters Rise From Below in a New ‘Kong: Skull Island’ Trailer
Jimmy Kimmel Live! shared a new trailer for Kong: Skull Island, an upcoming reboot of the King Kong franchise directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. The trailer…

A Dialect Coach Breaks Down Movie Accents
Dialect coach Erik Singer breaks down some of the best and worst movie accents for Wired. Singer pays particular attention to the work on Brad…

Jimmy Fallon, Metallica, and The Roots Play ‘Enter Sandman’ Using Classroom Instruments
Jimmy Fallon, Metallica, and The Roots teamed up on The Tonight Show to play the song “Enter Sandman” using classroom instruments. They jammed on instruments…

Some of the Best Cosplay at NC Comicon 2016
Filmmaker Blake Faucette of Distractotron has created a wonderful new video featuring a number of the pop culture video game, tv show, and movie cosplays…

Samuraiguitarist Plays a Cover of the Super Mario World Soundtrack With Sound Effects
Skilled musician Steve Onotera (a.k.a. “Samuraiguitarist“) has released a video where he plays a brilliant cover of the Super Mario World soundtrack, complete with sound…

Matt Stonie Makes and Then Drinks the ‘World’s Largest’ Pumpkin Spice Latte in Under 2 Minutes
Competitive eater Matt “Megatoad” Stonie made and then drank the “world’s largest” pumpkin spice latte in a little under two minutes for his latest challenge.…
