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A Young Girl Makes Some Bold Choices in Pursuit of Infinite Wishes After Finding a Genie
Young Hedy makes some bold choices in pursuit of infinite wishes after she finds a genie’s lamp in her attic in a sketch by TomSka.…
How Super Tall Buildings Like the Burj Khalifa Reach Such Great Heights
Real Engineering explains how super tall buildings like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Tapei 101 in Taiwan use things like vortex shedding and…
The Amazing Organization That Builds Elaborate Halloween Costumes for Kids in Wheelchairs
Magic Wheelchair is a really beautiful non-profit that helps to build amazingly, elaborate Halloween costumes for children in wheelchairs by organizing volunteers within communities, helping…
German Artist Stefan Pabst Creates 3D Drawing of a Creepy Clown From Halloween Horror Nights
In a mind-blowing timelapse video, German artist Stefan Pabst creates a 3D optical illusion drawing of a creepy clown from the annual Halloween Horror Nights…
SafariSeat, An All Terrain, Open Source Wheelchair Designed for People in Developing Countries
SafariSeat is an all terrain wheelchair designed for people in developing countries. The design is being released freely as an open source toolkit, and the…
Adoring Parents Dress Up as Characters From Where the Wild Things Are With Their 1-Year Old Son Max
Adoring parents Richard Blakeley and Lindsay Kaplan wanted to make their son Max’s first birthday and first Halloween very special, so they dressed up as…
A Movie Quality Live Action Trailer for Dishonored 2 Filled With Robots, Superpowers, and Fighting
Bethesda released a fantastic movie quality live-action trailer for "Dishonored 2", a sequel to the popular 2012 video game "Dishonored".
GifCities, A Search Engine Featuring Over 4,500,000 Animated GIFs Archived From Old GeoCities Sites
The Internet Archive has launched GifCities, an animated GIF search engine that has indexed over 4,500,000 animated GIFs saved from the defunct GeoCities. Geocities was…
Impending Danger Closes in on Sherlock and His Friends in the Highly Anticipated Series 4 Premiere
The trailer for the upcoming, highly anticipated fourth series (season) of Sherlock strongly hints at the impending danger closing in on the eponymous character and…
Coyote Peterson Feasts Upon the Juice of a Prickly Pear That’s Been Strained Through His Own Sock
While pursuing a little zebra-tailed lizard while on location in the Sonoran Desert, the persistent Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness encountered a grove of prickly…