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Honest Game Trailer For Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Screen Junkies and Smosh have created an honest game trailer for Naughty Dog‘s third-person shooter video game, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. We previously wrote…
A Brilliantly Conductive Bookmark That Lights Up With the Addition of a Coin-Sized Battery
Japanese studio Kyouei Design has created an absolutely brilliant bookmark made with a special conductive nano-particle ink that lights up embedded LEDs when the ends…
Numberphile Plays Back a Rubik’s Cube Speed Solve in Slow Motion to Explain the Math at Play
Numberphile recorded Ryan Jones doing an 11.775 second Rubik’s Cube speed solve, and then played it back in slow motion while different mathematicians explained the…
Three Tiny Baby Goats in Sweaters Explore Their Surroundings Under the Keen Eye of Their Mom
A trio of tiny 2-week old Nigerian Dwarf goats named Ramona, Juno and Mabel, explored the amazing sights around their home at the wonderful Sunflower…
7,548 Musicians Gather in Frankfurt, Germany Breaking the World Record for Largest Orchestra
Conductor Wolf Kerschek and 7,548 musicians gathered at tin Frankfurt to set a new world record for the world's largest orchestra.
How to Grow Bismuth Crystals at Home
Taras Kulakov the “Crazy Russian Hacker” demonstrates how to grow bismuth crystals at home by melting down a chunk of the element and letting it…
Writer Nora Ephron Opens Up to Studs Terkel About Feminism in a Lost 1975 Interview
In the latest episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, 34-year old writer Nora Ephron sat down with interviewer Studs Terkel…
The World’s Oldest Mime Shares the Poignant Story of His Life in Three Different Acts
87-year old Richmond Shepard, the world’s oldest mime, opened up to the cameras of the New Yorker to share the story of his life, his…
A Breakdown of the Human Brain by the Numbers
In the 100th episode of the PBS Digital Studios series BrainCraft, host Vanessa Hill breaks down the human brain by the numbers. The stop-motion video…
How the Common Pairing of Salt and Pepper Became So Intrinsically Linked
Joe Hanson, host of the PBS Digital Studios series “It’s Okay To Be Smart” took a look at the common pairing of salt and pepper…