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Tolga Bat Hospital, An Australian Sanctuary that Offers Rehabilitation for Bats In Need
The wonderful Tolga Bat Hospital, located near Cairns, North Queensland Australia, provides loving rescue, rehabilitation and sanctuary services for injured or abandoned bats, who are…
Daredevil Nik Wallenda Breaks Two World Records on Tightrope Walks Between Chicago Skyscrapers
Daredevil Nik Wallenda (previously) broke the Guinness World Records for the “Highest Incline Tightrope Walk” and the “Highest Blindfolded Tightrope Walk” as he made a…
Middle School Students Create a Gender-Swapped, Shot-for-Shot Remake of the Original ‘Ghostbusters’ Movie Trailer
Six talented middle school students have created a spectacular gender-swapped, shot-for-shot remake of the original Ghostbusters movie trailer for the Boston International Kids Film Festival.…
GoPro Video of Surfer Brett Barley Taking on a Triple Barrel Wave
Surfer Brett Barley captured some first-person GoPro video of a truly impressive run through three barrels on the same wave off the coast of the…
John Oliver Skewers Lowe’s Robot Sales Assistant and Introduces a Hilarious Home Depot Ad on ‘Last Week Tonight’
Host John Oliver skewered Lowe’s robot sales assistant and offered up a special ad for Home Depot to take advantage of Lowe’s decision on a…
Dizzying First-Person Video of a GoPro Camera Attached to the Blade of a Ceiling Fan
Kansas-based maker Austin Feathers attached a GoPro camera to the blade of a home ceiling fan. The results of the video are, unsurprisingly, a bit…
Scientists Infiltrate an Antarctica Emperor Penguin Colony With a Fuzzy Baby Robot Penguin on Wheels
Scientists at France’s University of Strasbourg got in close with a colony of emperor penguins in Adelie Land, Antarctica using a four-wheel, remote-control rover dressed…
A Mother Retells the Plot of ‘Inception’ After Watching the Film for the First Time
Austin-based filmmaker and commercial director Joe Nicolosi recently asked his mom to retell the story of Inception after watching the movie for the first time.…
An Interactive BBC Infographic That Generates Fascinating Facts About You and the Earth Based on Your Birth Date
Your life on earth is a fascinating interactive infographic by BBC Earth that generates some very eclectic facts, figures, and comparisons about you and the…
‘The Trials and Tribulations of Being a Skeleton’, An Adorable Animated Short About Life as a Skeleton
Production studio Gentleman Scholar imagines some of the difficulties of being a skeleton, from sports to puberty, in their charming animated short, “The Trials and…