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Astronomers Find First Evidence of Water Ice Clouds Outside Our Own Solar System
For the first time, evidence of water ice clouds has been found outside our own solar system. A team of astronomers at the Carnegie Institution…
Italian Greyhound Puppy Enthusiastically Conquers iPad Game Made for Cats
An adorable Italian Greyhound puppy named Violet enthusiastically conquers the iPad game Cat Fishing 2 with such enormous 2-pawed enthusiasm that she didn’t stop until…
How to Fix the Protruding Camera on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus With a Grinding Machine
YouTube user PeripateticPandas was not happy with the protruding camera lens on the iPhone 6 (see previously), so they used a power grinder to smooth things out. The description…
Clyde the Goat Inexplicably Starts Babbling Incoherently As if He Were Speaking In Tongues
A little brown goat named Clyde inexplicably begins babbling incoherently, almost as if he were suffering from glossolalia and speaking in tongues. According to his…
‘Declarations of Independence’, A Comic About the Overwhelming Peculiarities of Life With a Toddler
Grant Snider of Incidental Comics has created “Declarations of Independence“, a comic about the “overwhelming peculiarities of life with a toddler.” Posters of Snider’s comics…
Lone Black Dog Gleefully Plays in the Fountains of London’s Central Saint Martins College
On her way to work, commuter Martha Bellingham captured this wonderful footage of a lone black dog merrily playing in the choreographed ground fountains of…
‘A Place We Have Been To’, A Documentary About the Georgia-Based Psychedelic Music Collective Elephant 6
A Place We Have Been To is an upcoming documentary highlighting the rise of Athens, Georgia neo-psychedelic music collective, The Elephant 6 Recording Company, which…
Ello, A Simple and Beautiful Advertising-Free Alternative to Other Social Networks
Ello is a new simple and beautiful ad-free alternative to other advertising-based social networks. The creators of Ello posted a manifesto explaining their reasons for creating the network,…
Baby Groot Gets Metal in a Mashup of Marvel’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ & Sepultura’s Song ‘Roots Bloody Roots’
“Groot, I Am Groot!” Luke Gibson of Mastering Engineer has created “Groots Bloody Groots“, a mashup parody of the 2014 Marvel film Guardians of the…
‘A Tale of Two Bridges’, A Look at the State of New York’s Tappan Zee and Brooklyn Bridges
“A Tale of Two Bridges” is a short video by The New York Times that examines the approaches being taken to restore/replace New York’s Tappan…