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An Engaging Retail Exhibit Featuring Illustrations That Animate When Customers Interact With Them
London-based ad agency Dalziel + Pow created an interesting and engaging exhibit for the first Retail Design Expo in the UK that features screen-printed illustrations…
A Series of Examples of Ways Technology Has Improved the Lives of Humans
Host John Green gives a series of examples of ways that technology has improved the lives of human in a recent episode of the Mental…
A Dedicated Delivery Person Gets Pizza to Workers Atop a Cell Tower Using a Rope Pulley System
Britton McClung shot some video of a dedicated food delivery person getting pizza to hungry workers atop a cell tower by using a rope pulley…
Periscope, A Twitter-Owned Live Streaming Video App With Real-Time Commenting
Periscope is a new app that live streams video to Twitter, while integrating real-time notifications and comments from the microblogging service. The app features video…
‘Intention Machines,’ An Upcoming San Francisco Exhibition of Praying Robots Created by Kal Spelletich
Artist Kal Spelletich (previously) has created a series of life-size “praying robots” that mimic various forms of prayer for his upcoming exhibition Intention Machines. The…
Scientists Discover Three Confirmed Reasons Why Some Spiders Don’t Stick to Their Own Webs
In a recent episode of Science Friday, host Flora Lichtman spoke with scientist William Eberhard of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute to try to find…
Olek Covers a Homeless Shelter in New Delhi With Crocheted Yarn to Highlight the Issue of Poverty
To help raise the profile of a homeless shelter in New Delhi, artist Olek (previously) and a team of local volunteers recently covered the structure…
How the Common Belief of Being Right- or Left-Brained Oversimplifies Brain Function Research
On a recent episode of SciShow, host Hank Green looks into the history of brain function lateralization, how it led to the common belief of…
A Thoroughly Entertaining Stop-Motion Animation of a Table Saw Magically Assembling Itself
Once again woodworker and filmmaker Frank Howarth has turned a rather dry-sounding subject–in this case, table saw maintenance–into a thoroughly entertaining animation. After disassembling his…
A Lion Undergoes Computed Tomography Because Even Big Cats Need a CAT Scan Every Once in a While
image via BZ Berlin Even big cats need a CAT scan every once in a while as evidenced by a lion who needed a bit…