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Yorkshire Man Adopts an Orphaned 5-Week Old Pygmy Goat and Names Him Benjamin
A man named Tom who lives in Pot House Hamlet in South Yorkshire, UK, adopted an adorable 5-week old pygmy goat whom he named Benjamin.…
Hub Powderworks, A Boston Company That Covers Bicycle Frames in a Highly Reflective Coating
Back in 2013 we posted about “The Safest Bike on the Road,” a concept bicycle covered in a retroreflective powder coating that makes the bike…
‘The Inferiority Complex’, A Comic by Grant Snider About the Ups and Downs of Self-Esteem Trouble
Wichita, Kansas-based cartoonist Grant Snider (previously) of Incidental Comics created an introspective comic imagining an inferiority complex as a literal, physical complex built from features…
Delightful Metal Sculptures Made of Car and Motorcycle Parts
Czech artist Tomas Vitanovsky creates delightful metal sculptures out of scrapped car and motorcycle parts. Vitanovsky says he stumbled upon his artform through his work…
The Cosmic Symbolism Fly-Through, A Psychedelic Web Experience by Imaginary Foundation
The Imaginary Foundation brings us the Cosmic Symbolism Fly-Through, which is exactly what it sounds like, if it sounds like a mind-altering web portal to…
Wonderfully Distorted Sculptures Created From Cut Portrait Photos
Artist Justine Khamara transforms her portrait photography into intricate and wonderfully distorted cut sculptures. Khamara starts with a photo of a face or body part,…
The Yip Yips Sing a Touching Martian Family Song in a Classic Clip From ‘Sesame Street’
The Yip Yips and their baby sing a touching Martian family song in a classic clip from Sesame Street. The song originally aired on May 9, 1991…
1000 Colors, A 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle of the CMYK Color Gamut
1000 Colors is a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of the CMYK color gamut (the CMYK color model is commonly used in color printing.) Each tile is…
A Creative Animation Demonstrating Each Step of the Process of Making a Cup of Starbucks Coffee
A creative animation by the production company Not to Scale demonstrates each step of the process of making a cup of Starbucks coffee. The video…
A TED-Ed Lesson Looks at the Concept of Death to Attempt to Pinpoint the Exact Moment a Person Is Considered Dead
A recent TED-Ed lesson by Randall Hayes and Anton Bogaty looks at the concept of death in an attempt to pinpoint the exact moment a person…