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‘Childhood’s End’, The Powerful 1972 Pink Floyd Song Remixed From the Original Masters in 2016
“Childhood’s End” is an incredibly powerful Pink Floyd song that was featured as the first song on the second side of the brilliant 1972 album…
Netflix Premieres the Disturbing Trailer for Season Three of the Dystopian Series ‘Black Mirror’
In September 2015, Netflix announced that they picked up the third season of Charlie Brooker‘s brilliantly speculative dystopian series Black Mirror. Just a hair over…
Class, An Upcoming Doctor Who Spinoff About Six Teenage Students of the Coal Hill Academy
In September, the BBC announced a new spinoff series about students who attend the Coal Hill Academy, a fictional institution that has been referenced since…
A Timid Stray Dog Helps Her Rescuers Find Her Surviving Puppy
In a truly touching video from Hope for Paws, rescuers Eldad Hagar and Lisa Arturo coax a rather unwilling stray dog out from under a…
Doctor Who Lands in NYC to Save the City From a Deadly Alien Threat in the 2016 Christmas Special
In “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” (The colloquial name for Doctor Who in Spanish-speaking countries), the beloved Time Lord and his TARDIS travel across the…
Truly Unique Bicycle ‘Training’ Wheels Made Up of Rotating Running Shoes In Place of Tires
A photo posted by Steve Biggs (@biggsytravels) on Jul 30, 2016 at 1:47pm PDT For the Prudential RideLondon that took place in late July 2016,…
A 15-Year Old British Boy Falls in Love and Discovers The Clash in the Upcoming Film ‘London Town’
The upcoming film London Town tells the story of Shay, a 15-year old disaffected suburban British boy in 1979, who falls in love with a…
How Ancient Dogs Were Domesticated Twice Due to the Trade Routes of the Bronze Age
The animated video “The Origin of Dogs” puts forth the belief that canines were domesticated more than once due to the introduction of inter-region trade…
How to Survive After Being Buried Alive
Comedian Joe Bereta teaches everything that we need to know about how to survive after being buried alive on an intense episode of AWE me…
Skryf, A Robot That Writes Temporary Words Using Sand
Skryf is a robot built by artist Gijs van Bon that writes temporary words using sand. The written text is vulnerable to elements like weather…