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PepperGram, A Simple Device for Creating ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ Hologram Illusions Using Tablets
PepperGram is a simple hologram projector for tablets that makes use of the illusion technique known as Pepper’s ghost. When the device is placed on…
100 Years of Beauty in France Shown Decade by Decade In a Chronological Time Lapse
In the 25th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, WatchCut Video provides a chronologically visual history of the past 100 years of beauty…
Testing Myths, An Art Show Paying Tribute to MythBusters Hosts Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman
artwork by Chogrin Munoz The Creature Features art gallery in Burbank, California is hosting TESTING MYTHS, an upcoming group art show that will pay tribute…
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…