While Mikayla of SaveAFox Rescue was setting up her phone to record an outdoor yoga session, a beautiful but very mischievous rescued red fox named Dixiedo decided to steal the phone, run off with it and try to bury it the yard. Dixie stole my phone! I was going to…
How to Safely Bring Deliveries Into Your Home
Dr. Jeffrey VanWingen of Family Medicine Specialists in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who previously gave some incredibly helpful tips for grocery shopping during these unprecedented times, returned to offer up some useful advice about safely bringing packages and deliveries into your home. So let’s talk about bringing things into our home…
The Haunting Sound of an Ancient Arabic Oud
Musician Brandon Acker made a wonderful explainer video about the ancient Arabic Oud. This beautiful pear-shaped instrument, related to the lute, has 11 strings (five doubled and a single bass note) that run down a fretless neck. Using half-flats and half-sharps that are unique to Arabic music, this ancient instrument…
A Mesmerizing Film That Reveals the Elaborate Flight Patterns of Starling Murmurations to Confuse Predators
Photographer Xavi Bou, who captures multiple flight patterns of birds through a photographic method of his own design called “Ornithographies”, has created a stunning film that shows the flight of a starling murmuration performing an elaborate dance so as to evade, confuse and overwhelm an attack of predatory birds. The…
An Impossibly Difficult Transparent Jigsaw Puzzle
Little Flower Pot Shop has created an impossibly difficult, completely transparent jigsaw puzzle. The puzzle comes in several levels of difficulty according to the size and number of pieces in the box, but the finished puzzles are all the same size. This custom jigsaw puzzle is hard enough in its…
‘The Scream’ Painting by Edvard Munch Carved Into the Cream Center of an Oreo Cookie
Food artist Tisha Cherry (previously) carved the iconic Edvard Munch masterpiece “The Scream” into the cream center of an Oreo cookie.
A Hilarious Compilation of M*A*S*H Clips That Address Each Step of Staying Safe and Healthy These Days
Frank Vaccarriello created a hilarious compilation of clips from the long-running classic TV sitcom M*A*S*H that addresses each recommended step of staying safe and healthy these days. The show, a dramedy that focused on Korean War through the eyes of doctors at a mobile Army hospital, also offered a great…
Street Signs Reimagined in an Age of Social Distancing
While going for a run, designer Dylan Coonrad of CannonDesign noticed how the streets of his Brooklyn neighborhood were void of both people and animals. With this in mind, Coonrad created a poignant series of reimagined street signs, both before and after the virus. I found myself paying attention to…